Amazon's new headquarters look like sh*t

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I didn’t know that Bad Dragon got into the architecture game

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Reminds me of the RLDS temple in Independence, MO.

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Actual Tower of Babel. Fitting.

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It matches his eyes, oddly enough…

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Yep, that’s some damn ugly architecture.

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I love ‘green’ buildings like this which inevitably take an enormous amount of resources to put trees on top of the structure. Some grass and shrubs maybe, but trees? That’s a non-trivial effort. And think of the upkeep. Can this building persist for more than 40 years without major work? Goes without saying, the money would be better spent on building a simple, efficient structure, and using the left-over to help sustain pre-existing ecosystems… Otherwise it’s just engineering a ‘green’ vanity project.

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Ca-ca-zon!

It ain’t purty.

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Could work as a motto/fight song for Amazon: “Spiral city architect… I build — you pay!” (lyrics: Spiral Architect; Black Sabbath)

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Yup. That should pretty much offset the greenhouse gasses from all the Amazon delivery trucks and semis.

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Y’all weird, it’s a nice change from the prevailing big-box design.

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Looks like a soft-serve ice cream to me.

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Y’know, looking at it more, I agree. Its a nice shape, and a modern design, and it incorporates green space. Id take it over lots of other modern designs.

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oh c’mon –– looks like shit? really?

I suppose you’d be happier if it had “mah-bull” columns.

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I like the idea that there is a spiral staircase that goes all the way up the building. That would be some good exercise if you work on the 20th floor.

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I’ve only seen the one picture, but I don’t understand the hate. :thinking:

Much better than any of the 'ol “rectangular towers” that architects still “design”.

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Nobody:

Bezos: with my new lair upgraded with habitrail technology, my empire will reign supreme!

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Exactly my first thought. But as with all things helix there’s handedness. The amazon headquarters is depicted a left-handed (…hmm, thinks this southpaw). Here’s the usual right-handed Turm von Babylon

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Reminds me.

I saw a tower go up in Seattle over the last couple of years, and now the penthouse deck has a 50’ western red cedar planted up there.

The poor thing is going to suffer multiple lightning strikes.

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