The Amazon Spheres in Seattle's Denny Triangle are three intersecting glass domes at Amazon's headquarters, designed by NBBJ with landscape firm Site Workshop. Magnusson Klemencic Associates was structural engineer. Construction began in 2015, and Jeff Bezos dedicated the Spheres on January 29, 2018. The article calls it a biophilic design and names no formal style.
The domes stand 80 to 95 feet (24 to 29 m) tall and cover about half a city block. A steel frame and concrete core carry more than 2,600 panes of glass. Inside are about 40,000 plants, including a four-story living wall of 25,000 plants and a 55-foot (17 m) Ficus tree lifted in by crane in June 2017.
The Spheres hold meeting spaces for 800 people, a cafeteria and a public exhibit called Understory. They mainly serve employees, though the public can visit on headquarters tours and through a twice-monthly weekend reservation program. The article gives no hours.
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