Inside Amazon's Spheres, the Biodome Office in Seattle | WSJ Open Office
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- The Spheres, Amazon's giant biodomes in downtown Seattle, allow employees to escape the office to work and brainstorm surrounded by nature. Take a tour with NBBJ architect John Savo as he shows off the features of the workspace, including a five-story living wall with 25,000 plants. Photo Illustration: Drew Evans/The Wall Street Journal.
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Inside the Biodome: Interns fight to the death for high paying jobs
It's always be
in other words kiss assing big time
Correction:
Inside the Biodome: interns fight to the death on the rumor of a promise that one day they may have the opportunity to compete for the opportunity to earn a job that may or may not pay a living wage. Conditions and limitations may apply.
Two men enter one man leave
It's also a blight on the planet ecologically speaking....nothing about it is environmentally sound. The sir Inside is full of chemicals.
It’s crazy what you can achieve when you don’t pay taxes.
wow u sure showed Jeff Bezos
hahaaa😂😂😂
@@stun3282 what you mean to say is that they are using the tax code as it is written by all parties
Most underrated comment 😂😂😂😂
watch out we got an armchair accountant here
It's like they're working in the middle of...the amazon.. *bah-dum-tssss*
r/wooosh
Anime Tops r/woooosh
Anime Tops also you’re a weab.
1.Destroy real nature
2.Create private artificial nature to yourself
except nothing around you is natural, and you're working for the devil
Imagine being in it when it rains. Heavenly 😍
I bet your hoping to be rained on by men
I doubt one would notice most of the time. It doesn't rain here much. It sprinkles for months at a time. We don't carry umbrellas. Most days, looking out the window, its hard to tell if its raining or not. The drops aren't big enough so you have to look at the tops of parked cars or see if any drops are hitting the puddles. But its not like back east where you get thunder and lightening, heavy downpours with hail and the like. Its more like a never ending opening to Bambi - din din din little April showers....but even that would be a heavy rain:)
jurassic park/museum feel it would give💜
imagine not paying taxes.. Heavenly 😍
It is Seattle so I would say i rains a lot lol
Each sphere contains 7483 Starbucks.
😂😂😂
And twice the dispensaries.
@@osvaldoreyes34 Lol, good point. Giant hotbox.
It's not a Starbucks but there is actually a coffee shop in the mid level of it.
Yeah I bet
People seem to be negatively criticising this idea, but I know I would personally prefer to work here than a depressing office block. The natural light alone would make me more productive, and make my mood better. I think it's a great idea.
When the company cut your salary to build the building, ah.
dude... your name...
@@ConstantinosJkay It's unique. ;)
The problem is that these were tax write offs for the trillion dollar company that made billions last year and didn't pay any taxes in the US
@@MM-hq2bd I don't think that's related to the office though. I think Amazon is a scummy company too, but regardless of who built the office, it's still a good office.
The architectural equivalent of "hey i wanna go eat lunch in the park, but dont want to interact with homeless or poor people"
Amanda Spheres aren't really space efficient
Ebbe B As a former Seattlite, you hit the nail on the head
Implying most people want to interact with homeless people
Perfect. Who wants to interact with lazy druggies?
Most of those plants would never grow in Seattle. It’s a very complex ecosystem they’ve created. I mean you’re right about it being a space only for amazons employees and the elite, but it’s more complex than not wanting to see homeless people.
I may have misgivings about the company commissioning it but I love the architecture and the greenery
'Waah I hate company's that drastically change things and need ultra efficency to create a superior product that actually has a chance of doing good in the future'
@@TheFreshSpam you do know they pay next to nothing in tax and actively exploiting its workers right. Amazon bring new innovation to the world sure, but hey we can criticize its flaws too right.
They were losing money for almost 20 years, so tax credit. Similarly to you, if you losing money for small business, you can get tax credit for future years. Also here in Canada, the minimum wage for Amazon employees is 19/hour, that's good(if people's feels exploited they would quit like a normal person) and I know, driving throughout the city and walking to a front door must be life threatening. The reason why Amazons prices is so cheap is because they spend so much more money making it cheap(to remove competition) to a point that sometimes they wont even reach their profitable point.
@@AnimeTopsEntertainment fair point. Apparently you are smarter than the two people above us. Basically we can't over demonize someone and at the same time can't over glorify someone.
In the case of Amazon's I think it is prudent to keep both eyes open. John D Rocker feller man had a monopoly of oil industry, he set a strong foundation for oil refining standards. Which benefitted mankind immensly
At the same time, he was causing plenty of busniess and workers to go out of work to stamp out competition. How many careers and livilhood have he stamped out?
Are we not going to keep a eye out on Amazon just because it provide a great service for us?
Remember even Apple exploit their workers in China. But we love IPhone ya?
@@AnimeTopsEntertainment besides.. If Amazon don't make money for so many year why is Jeff Bezos still the richest man in the world?
Jeff and Amazon benefitted greatly from America infrastructure. And they pay nothing? Not even a bit? Even when it is profitable?
And in mean time.... I am fighting with my company so they replace my broken chair....
Edit: also, who else here hate the person that ask to change the AC for half of the building every 5 minutes?
Edit 2: my chair is still broken :(
Poor guy. So sad.
Buy your own chair cheap-o
Break ur back and sue them *works every time*
Rodrigo set it on fire, I’m serious.
You must be working for the government
so nice they treat their corporate employees well and go out of their way to relieve their stress. I worked in an amazon warehouse, break time was 15 minutes. the place was so big It took me 6 minutes to get to the breakroom and 6 minutes to get back to my work station. thanks for that 3 minute break Amazon
i think the only thing more amazing than these amazon spheres is how amazon got to be tax free! AMAZING!
They were losing money for almost 20 years, so tax credit. Similarly to you, if you losing money for small business, you can get tax credit for future years
The largest company in the world, hehhe... No taxes!
Study basic taxes economics it’ll help you.
@@newton2013 It's really not the biggest but ok lol
Investing back into the company is a tax write off.
All public building should be built this way.
Let me just think of the most german answer possible and say that spheres are highly space inefficient
@@jonnynik7626l
Did the those plants arrive at Amazon from the Amazon with tax free 2 day shipping?
Surprisingly, Amazon doesn’t order any of its products from itself. I’m an Amazon employee and when we get things like new chairs etc they specifically state we can NOT get them from Amazon.com. It has something to do with the taxes etc.
So yea Amazon surprisingly buys a LOT of stuff they could be saving money on, from outside businesses.
@@Mattorrr i guess you can't deduct something you purchased from yourself?
Joseph Richardson yea and Amazon does taxes differently because they have that special “we make a lot of money” tax rate haha.
But in general yea they’d be like buying from themselves but the taxes would be off because buying from yourself at one rate and paying taxes on the same item at a different rate would be way too confusing
This is literally like Changi's jewel, but office instead of an airport! Good job on creating such a lovely workplace environment.
One is paid by the government, the other is a private company.
Yeah amazon made it for the Chinese they will flood our west coast with
I don’t know about amazon themselves, but I appreciate that there is someone making beautiful buildings mostly for the sake of it
Reporter: " The idea was every Amazon employee can get up from their desk and explore..."
Me: " what about warehouse workers, what company do they work for?"
they're hardly comparable
They aren't making decisions that steer the direction of the entire company.
@@orangebottle9657 what if they decide to walk out
@@theeldergil They will lose their jobs, amazon will have even more reason to accelerate automation rollout, and in the meantime will hire more people to replace them. There is little incentive for people to do that, and that's that whether we like it or not.
Who you think is making the money for them or for the office peeps
“Each glass panel in the sphere represents a family own company which was forced into bancruptcy by amazon”
"Each leaf represents a family that saved money and could afford better things due to the economies of scale achieved by amazon"
@@chetanaik "Each leaf represents the amount of times you licked the boots of greedy capitalists, while they are exploiting you and your family"
@@dialecticalveganegoist1721 "each stem represents screw you commie, I like 2 day shipping" lol
@@darklight8675 oof nice one
Oh well
I'm sure the warehouse workers appreciate money spent on these spheres instead of their wages.
or better working conditions
@Brutal Wingman no one said it was bro. still doesn't mean they shouldn't treat their workers better.
@Brutal Wingman If you are dependent on the income, quitting would prove to be a bit of a problem would it not?
@Brutal Wingman I thought you were trying not to sound callous? Kinda failed honestly.
@@darklight8675 heh, ok buddy.
I do not know how much this architecture helps Amazon's productivity but the company is doing very well. I wish we had more of these spaces all over the world. The sterile and noisy open-office model saves companies money but are horrible. It is frustrating how many companies are still adopting it for short-term cost perspectives only.
‘Every amazon employee?’ I think every amazon employee are locked inside warehouses packaging boxes on a conveyer belt 24/7. Well done for making a sphere building for hire-ups with laptops sniffing plants.
I wonder if that's made in China, too.
So you want them packaging boxes in a sphere
Probably doesn't make financial sense, which is probably why they won't do it. It's not a charity.
That’s their own fault, you have total control of where you want to work, nobody’s forcing you to work there. If you hate your job, cut out your liabilities and save up $$$ and change jobs.
Cherry Stone warehouse workers actually account for 100,000 of Amazons total 647,500 employees.
I can't wait to visit the Amazon Sphere's ! I love this! Thank you for the inside tour! This is one of my top destinations on my bucket list! I post videos on plant care and the spheres are a dream come true! Absolutely amazing!
They need to film a movie there. It's beautiful
Took a lot of inspiration from Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay
@James Franko "inspiration"
@James Franko To cloud forest, gardens by the bay, forest valley Singapore, not very different
Its crazy I live 40 minutes from Seattle and this is the first time I’ve seen this, guess u should visit the city more often
This is futuristic nature. It may open up many new possibilities of conserving nature and blending the nature and artificial world together. 👌
It really isn't. You cant just hand pick some nice looking plants and call that nature. If this is what replaces the natural world then food chains die and ecosystems collapse.
If futuristic nature means wasting tons of energy and resources in keeping foreign flora alive because it looks cool instead of seeking to not waste resources and keeping endemic flora where it belongs then we're doing something wrong
Wow! I wished it’s like this at my job! I’m a plant nerd and I want to see nature everyday. I noticed there’s a lot of exotic rare plants that’s hard to find/buy
I gotta have a dedicated workspace. As a designer an external monitor makes a huge difference.
If you’ve ever have the chance to visit the spheres do it! It was a refreshing experience
This is a great idea, but I can't help but be sickened by how much money they spend on comforting these highly paid people vs. the sweat-shops they operate for fulfillment centers.
If you work in the spheres, you've got an indoor forest to help sooth your working nerves, paths to walk, blah blah blah.
If you work in the fulfillment center, you can't take a pee without being penalized for "unproductivity."
"Hey check out all these open beautiful work spaces for me to get some work done in!" says a highly paid coder. "We can relax in here and talk for a bit."
Meanwhile...
"Hey check out the activity monitor that tracks my every movement!" says the underpaid fulfillment worker. "We can't talk for long though, I've got..." cut off by the activity monitor vibrating, flashing a red light, claxtons going off.
Matt V $15/hr is not underpaid for sorting merchandise
Matt V why should replaceable parts be treated as well as irreplaceable or annoying to replace parts.
@@Eric-Truong
If you treat the world like the cogs of a moving machine then there's no humanity
@@neilt1352 again, theyre paid 15/hr. i worked in a fulfillment center for 5 months in multiple positions and i assure u 15/hr isnt bad for the work
@@ntactime_w3488 The question here then is, when you worked at those fulfillment centers what sort of improvements or elements in your work environment was Amazon actively taking steps to make your working environment better?
did they put some kind of trail around the fulfillment center? Was there a spa on site, how about a relaxation room? What about some of those sleeping pods that all them coders are always talking about?
oh I know... they at least put in a hot tub out back, that way people could at least relax after their long day of work.... Right?
there was something at the fulfillment center that helped make the monotony and stress of that job better?
I mean did you have an indoor rainforest? The least they could do would be to put some kind of trail around the property of the fulfillment center, that seems to be at least the minimum that they could do to provide some kind of relaxing element for the work environment. Did they at least do that?
I don't like Amazon, but that's a real cool project! Kudos to the architect and rest of the team :)
Good job 👍🏻. It’s amazing and it’s very nice to see these types of creativity.
It is beautiful with all the plants and nature brought in and would be amazing to work in!
Would love to work in an environment like this! Speaking it out into the universe!
This’s truly exceptional😲❤️ How long has this been open for? It looks like it only opened up a few days ago from how clean everything is.
Really innovative and fascinating information thank you! Really excited to see in person one day take care!
This is beautiful, I’m sure anyone would love to work here
I really want to dismiss this as some Seattle new age/hipster nonsense... but it looks like a nice place.
What?!!.,, I've been in this place before but it was in my dream I perfectly remember it since like I was 10
How do you know your memory of a different biodomewasn't over written when you saw this one?
Awesome.
Very cool & creative invention.
Well done.
Great teamwork AMAZON!
I live here in Seattle and love the spheres. They’re a wonderful addition to the street. Lovely and lit well at Christmas!
"Senior Manager of Horticultural Services, Amazon"
Wow. Dream job. 😍
amazon: builds a sanctuary for their workers
my school: turns off hearings and ac to pay for new shit we can’t afford.
.....seems about right.
Has it ever crossed your mind that your school isn't worth 1 trillion dollars...?
@@Tullymastully That 1 trillion is achieved and maintained by dodging all the taxes that Amazon would have to pay to governments if they didn't have a ton of legal strategies to get around them. A public school not being able to run it's AC when it needs to is, in some way, a result of the greed of Amazon.
@@cole1714 Amazon doesnt even make that much money, go blame Apple
Vysair amazon is waaay worse than apple in many regards
@@jsebastianmunch In term of their work ethic and condition, yeah Amazon is probably worse than Apple.
Amazing architecture!
This is an amazing space!
Open blender, create icosphere, use subsurface modifier, use wireframe modifier, press f12 thank you
Lol
This fusion of nature and artificially made is the future of architecture and will also be how Mars and Moon colonies will look like.
This building is freaking amazing 😍🤘
Beautiful.
Nice for HQ, but not so cheery when the warehouses have no AC. But they do have ambulances in wait. 🥺
Of course those slaving away in Amazon's distribution warehouses don't need such luxuries!?
Exactly, the drones get nothing but grief.
Noboil Frog because they’re replaceable. In terms of business, people likely to use this would be of more worth to the company.
sorry but sorting packages doesn't take a lot of intelligence. as cruel as it is there will always be people without the fortune of smarts. it's a necessary cost so that we can get minds like Nikola Tesla or Carl Sagan, etc.
Incredible.
This is the office I would want for my employees
Isn’t this jewel Changi but it’s in a sphere?
Wow, this must be so high maintenance and consume so much energy. Must be helping a lot with the environment...
plus taking endemic flora from its environment and transporting it all the way to Seattle where it doesn't belong instead of... you know... using local flora
Now that's what I call great architecture
Wonder much thought and care put into the Amazon warehouse facilities
Probably more than the ball sac building... They got to make those warehouses compliant for their future fleet of robots to replace the defiant employees
Lol I walked by those so many times but haven’t gone inside yet.
You cant go inside
This is awesome.
So Beautiful!
I am afraid that this will be as close to nature as we get going forwards and all for work
Well birth rates continue to fall, so the population is expected to never break 12 billion. Also, it truly seems like vertical farming / factory farming of plants has the potential to provide organic foods for a fraction of the resources, and land usage. It won't come soon, it will probably take 50 - 100 years, but it is believed that we will be able to provide all of the world's food with somewhere between 5-10% of the land we use today. If that is coupled with only the 50% estimated increase in total population, there should be a lot of land that opens up for more parks and forests in the future. Humanity right now is just at an incredibly tough transitory period...think of it as the awkward and painful puberty of humanity.
I went there once and it actually feels humid and warm inside.So I don’t know if the workers are able to work comfortably in there
it's perfect for us Indonesians
I can't wait to visit
Outstanding
With the enclosed forest, _Amazon_ can finally justify its *name* .... guess the semantics returned to its _roots_ 😏
Good one
Now think of the environment Amazon's order pickers work in...
That's exactly what crossed my mind.
Exactly! They really like to have as wide as possible gap in working conditions. "We care about our employees, unless you do manually labor, can you please pee in a bottle instead of taking a bathroom break that'd be great thaaanks"
them order picking people know what the work conditions are like before they start working so they can decide wether or not they want to work there
Really terrific structures.
Mind blowing🤯!
I was in Seattle recently and passed by this. There was a homeless dudes pissing close by it 🤣
Asks why sphere? Gives answer that is not related at all and completely avoids question
A: "why sphere"?
Q: because we need to keep thinking of good ideas!
cut to next scene.
this is modern architecture. very impressive.
Wow this is amazing.
Should've called it the Amazon Jungle.
Good to hear Amazon's going to survive the apocalypse & ice age.
Beautiful!!
Beautiful!
Now show me where their kitchen and janitorial staff work.
This Singaporean approves
good documentation .......
While looking at this, I can’t stop thinking of costs costs costs
Amazon in Amazon
wheres the Avocado tree?...
I thought of something similar in my B. Arch years too! Wish to witness it in person :)
Schrodinger's Cat, I don’t practice architecture now
This is amazing
You could just work remotely from Medellin, Mexico City, Lima, Bali, etc. :P
Welcome to the Biodome 5 employees enter, only one leaves.
SO, Who wants a RAISE?!!
FIGHT!!!!
What a look this building both nice environmental. Tooo good
John Savo really reminds me of Bill Hammack the engineerguy. I'm sure he'd like this build.
Oh to be ultra rich and not have to deal with common peasants in the city like me.
1) You don't need to be ultra-rich to work at Amazon HQ...
2) This is a workplace. Honestly, if you can make where you work feel good, why wouldn't you?
I've been inside, they're lovely- but never open to the public. So everything about reconnecting the city with nature is more than a little hypocritical. Especially since outside, on the sidewalk, guess what they have? Street trees. I thought that wasn't enough?
RancidMarshmallow I have been in a few times also, it’s a great place but it’s only made for employees. If everyone could come in it would be chaos and would have no point for the employees to have a nice place to relax.
My dream office! ❤️❤️❤️
This is an awesome project worthy of emulation.
I don't think this is for your employees. Ive seen that South Park episode.
Is this open to the public?
@@drumma_satch You obviously didn't watch the video... They said yes, people are able to visit it... Smh... Don't post things you obviously don't know what you're talking about......
Yes but u need tickets, and it fills up fast
I love this!
It looks futuristic.
If this is the future, I just can't wait to live in it
@Andreas Leo Faulstich well, because otherwise I would just work in worse environment. I mean, I feel like your answer isn't even supposed to make any sense
TheQuestionChannel wow you can’t wait to live to work for the elites, the bourgeoisie. To trade your freedom and potentiality for a “nice work environment lul”. You’re a disgrace to humanity.
@@cristianmartinez9091 ahahhahah, i refuse to believe you actually thought this, you can't be like that ahahhaha
Amazon = Aperature
THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is what we called "INNOVATION"....😲
Pretty cool. Be a lot cooler if you paid your employees a living wage.
go educate yourself and get a better job this is just entry-level job, don't expect to earn millions when ur job is to put labels on cartons. I had to work hard 40-50h a week while I was studying, now I can relax and have a better life, work hard and smart than u will earn more.
They do.
artmasterpl in general that’s a good answer but it’s important to point out and be compassionate towards people that can’t work 40 hours a week and go to school and do internships for varying reasons like having to take care of a loved one, mental health, or physical health reasons, etc. And even then, at the end of the day, a lot of people work so much harder than others and still aren’t able to live even comfortably.