challenge of creativity > Amazon Seattle It's been an office arms race lately for coolest facilities, best game rooms, or most elaborate cereal bars. But at Amazon's Seattle headquarters, where its larger revitalization of the Denny Regrade neighborhood encompasses 130 September 2016 hospitalitydesign.com office 3.3 million square feet over three city blocks (and includes three 37-story office towers, two mid-rise office buildings, and a multipurpose meeting space for 2,000 people), the centerpiece is three 100-foot-tall multisensory glassenclosed biospheres-designed by locally based architecture firm NBBJ-where employees will be a part of nature in literal greenhouses filled with tens of thousands of floras from around the globe. When the spheres open in 2018, employees will be encouraged to walk amongst vine-clad walls or contemplate by the indoor creek, while meeting spaces designed to resemble bird nests will encourage creative thinking.http://www.hospitalitydesign.com