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Amazon’s new offices in Seattle will include more than 3,000 actual plants

United States Architecture News - Jul 20, 2016 - 11:40   6241 views

Amazon’s new offices in Seattle will include more than 3,000 actual plants

Just off a remote stretch of road here, near wineries, horse stables and farms, Amazon is secretly growing something, but it’s not what Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive, calls the “tiny seeds” that could become the company’s next big businesses.

No, Amazon is growing actual plants, more than 3,000 species of them spread around a one-acre greenhouse a half-hour’s drive from Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle. There are carnivorous pitcher plants, exotic philodendrons and orchids from Ecuador that resemble the menacing flora from “Little Shop of Horrors''.........Continue Reading

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