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Amazon planning giant greenhouse offices for its new Seattle campus
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Amazon has proposed to add a huge artificial biome to its new Seattle campus. Rather than being decorative, however, the enormous greenhouse, which comprises of three 80-to-95 feet high connected domes, will serve as a work space. The new building will be filled with plants separated into botanical zones...
Dog park, sun pockets and public art could be hallmarks of Amazon's proposed Seattle campus
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Architects for Amazon.com discuss some of the latest drawings of the proposed downtown Seattle campus. Artwork and a pedestrian (and dog) friendly space that creates a “sense of place” will be key components of Amazon.com’s proposed downtown Seattle office project, according to architects who presented their latest drawings at Seattle’s Downtown Design...
Randomized food delivery service NomON takes first place at Startup Weekend UW
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(From L to R): Will Voit, Claire Koerner, Stephanie Halamek, Evan Cohen and Tarryn Marcus won first place at Startup Weekend UW for their company called NomON. From L to R: Tom Hobbs, Sarah Bird, Jenny Lam, Rebecca Lovell and Greg Gottesman judged the presentations at Startup Weekend UW. It...
Google To Double The Size Of Their Kirkland, Seattle Campus
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Google is set to launch major expansion efforts to their Kirkland, Seattle office – home of many of the Google Webmaster Central team. The reports claim that this will double the size of the existing office, making this one of largest Google office outside of Google’s headquarters in... Please visit...
Breaking: Amazon buying Seattle campus for $1.16 B
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Amazon’s HQ in the South Lake Union neighborhood. This just in: Amazon.com is purchasing its existing Seattle headquarters campus in South Lake Union from Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. for more than $1.1 billion, according to a regulatory filing just made public. From the filing … The Company entered into purchase...
The most detailed designs yet of Amazon's proposed downtown Seattle HQ
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Architects for Amazon.com are expected to present some of their latest plans for the online retailer’s new downtown Seattle campus at a Design Review Board Meeting tonight at City Hall. In anticipation of the event, the architects have laid out drawings and other plans to show some of the...
Labor group takes aim at Amazon.com
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Amazon.com could face some scrutiny tonight as City of Seattle design officials consider the company’s planned expansion near downtown. The pro-labor group Working Washington – a critic of the conditions in Amazon.com’s fulfillment centers as well as the company’s stance on taxes — said it plans to raise issues at...
Kinect hacking at a whole new level: Here are the finalists for the Kinect Accelerator
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Today, Microsoft is announcing eleven finalists in the ultimate Kinect hacking showdown: a spot in a TechStars-backed accelerator just for Kinect-based ideas. Kinect hacks have been something we’ve been keeping an eye on for a while, and it turns out Microsoft has been equally interested. The spring class for...
Green space and glass: Amazon’s vision for its new downtown Seattle campus
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Architects for Amazon.com have submitted new drawings that show, in much greater detail, the company’s plans for three new office towers on the northern edge of downtown Seattle, with big glassy buildings connected by courtyards and greenspaces. The drawings, included in a public filing on the city’s website, give a...
GeekWire Radio: Getting to know Microsoft's Xbox One
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This week on the GeekWire radio show, we dive into the details of Microsoft’s newly unveiled Xbox One console — including the redesigned controller, the upgraded Kinect sensor, the lack of backward compatibility with the Xbox 360, and the company’s attempt to make this an all-in-one entertainment console. That...
UW-Tacoma debuts cybersecurity and leadership graduate program
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Cybersecurity is a pressing issue these days and the University of Washington is doing something about it. The UW-Tacoma branch is introducing a new graduate program designed to help professionals learn how to navigate the cybersecurity space and eventually become leaders in the industry. Starting this summer, the school will...
Seattle Public Schools to offer animation, game programming
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Budding digital animators and game programmers will soon have another option for learning those skills — through Seattle Public Schools’ new Skills Center. Applications are now being taken for the Skills Center, which will offer high school programs in Aerospace Science and Health Science, as well as a Cisco/Microsoft IT...
Amazon proposes a colossal biosphere-like Seattle campus
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Forget the Space Needle, the e-commerce giant is planning to bring 3.3 million square feet of office space to Seattle in the form of mirrored towers and giant spherical domes filled with plant life. [Read more]...
Amazon, Apple, Facebook or Google: Which of these titans is building the coolest tech campus?
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Amazon’s new biodome structure planned for downtown Seattle. One looks like a futuristic spaceship, another includes three steel and glass biodomes. A third is being developed by world-class architect Frank Gehry, and the fourth spans 42-acres on a former airfield. Welcome to the wonderful world of “geek-tecture” where Apple, Amazon.com,...
New computing institute on UW campus will focus on big data problems
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The University of Washington is already a budding hub for computer science. Now, with some help from a national laboratory, the Seattle campus will become even more of a CS powerhouse. The UW and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have formed the Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing. Researchers there will jointly...
Amazon warns protesters to stay off Seattle campus
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Amazon.com’s Seattle headquarters campus has been the target of protests in recent weeks from a group called Working Washington that is calling on the company to pay more in taxes and improve working conditions at its fulfillment centers around the country. Today the company responded with a message of its own,...
McKinstry to expand clean tech incubator in Northwest
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McKinstry's new innovation center in Spokane McKinstry is expanding its clean tech incubator program, adding an additional 18,000 square feet of space and a conference center at its facility in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood and opening a new 38,000-square-foot center at a historic electric railcar station in Spokane. “Our vision was to...
Architects describe Amazon’s proposed Seattle campus as an ‘urban room’ with ‘sun pockets’
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A model of downtown Seattle with the three proposed Amazon.com office towers in brown Amazon.com’s ambitious plans to erect three massive 37-story office towers in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle isn’t about building a corporate campus, it’s about building a neighborhood. At least that’s the view of NBBJ’s...
Seattle's design review board gives nod to ambitious Amazon.com towers
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A rendering of one of Amazon’s proposed towers in downtown Seattle. Amazon.com’s proposed 3.3 million square foot downtown Seattle campus is one step closer to reality after the Downtown Design Review Board voted 3-2 Tuesday night to recommend that the project move forward. Eric Pryne of The Seattle Times notes that...
Dog-friendly Amazon plans a place for pooches in new downtown Seattle campus
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Amazon.com has long been known as a workplace where dogs are welcome, so long as their owners abide by certain rules. But the company is going a step further in the plans for its new Seattle campus — designating a special area where the dogs can take care of some...
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