Updated designs have surfaced for Amazon's new headquarters in downtown Seattle. Instead of the biospheres' uniformly diamond-shaped supporting structure (compare with previous renderings), the new images we just received from the project's architects, NBBJ, show a much more organic web of struts, described as "Catalan spheres."
Related: Apple vs. Amazon: Whose new headquarters is cooler?
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The answer to the question asked previously by Archinect - "Apple vs. Amazon: Who's new headquarters is cooler?" starts to lean a bit more to Amazon with this iteration (better than either their earlier diagrid biosphere iteration or glass box before that).
But the real question should be: why do Amazon, Google (new Mtn View HQ) and Samsung (S.Jose) all want their headquarters to be designed by the same architect?
The way the Catalan Sphere geometry works is pretty interesting. I'd never heard the term before:
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