Workplace Design

A First Look At The Spheres, Amazon’s Wild New Corporate Biodome

A First Look At The Spheres, Amazon’s Wild New Corporate Biodome

“Call it a modern office space: an opportunity for people throughout our urban campus to come here and be able to have a completely different work setting,” says John Schoettler, Amazon’s vice president for global real estate and facilities and the driving force behind the company’s Seattle campus.

Watch: DPR Construction created a new workplace that’s primed for interaction and innovation with Living Office.

Watch: DPR Construction created a new workplace that’s primed for interaction and innovation with Living Office.

Even though DPR’s current office allotted ample space for individual workstations, DPR employees described the space as “overbooked” and “isolating.” With no communal areas for socializing and a scarcity of conference rooms, many people chose to work at their jobsites instead of coming into the office.