Finishing touches are made inside the Amazon Spheres in downtown Seattle on Tuesday, January 23, 2018. The giant orbs open on Monday.
Photographer: Mike Kane/BloombergInside Amazon’s Giant Spheres, Where Workers Chill in a Mini Rainforest
Management will make sure no one hogs the tree fort.
Three years ago, Amazon.com Inc.'s horticulturalist was giving Jeff Bezos a preview of what the company's three plant-filled spheres—the centerpiece of its $4 billion downtown Seattle office project—would look like on opening day.
One rendering showed the view from a 30-foot-high suspension bridge looking down on a tree. The next showed the same tree as it would look five years later, branches stretching high above the bridge to form a canopy, giving Amazonians the feeling of walking through a rainforest.