Gallery: Google and Amazon Hired These Architects to Invent the Future of Work
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Samsung's new R&D center in Silicon Valley will look like a giant glass donut. so that workers can see each other even when they're on separate floors. *Image: NBBJ*
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The rendering of the new headquarters for Alipay, the payment arm of Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba. *Image: NBBJ*
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Alipay's new HQ will be organized around “transaction nodes,” a concept that mirrors the flow of money online and of traffic along a traditional Main Street. *Image: NBBJ*
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At Amazon's new HQ, "biospheres" will let both light and the city in. *Images: NBBJ*
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Amazon's bubbles are designed around the concept of "biophilia," the idea that working in nature reduces stress and fatigue. *Image: NBBJ*
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With its new building, Samsung wants to do away with Silicon Valley's parking-centric architecture. *Image: NBBJ*
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Aerial view of Samsung's design. *Image: NBBJ*
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Google's planned 1.1 million-square-foot office complex is the first the company is designing from scratch. *Image: NBBJ*
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The future corporate headquarters of Tencent, one of the world's largest internet companies, in Shenzhen, China. *Image: NBBJ*
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At Tencent's headquarters, each bridge will have a theme. The highest bridge's theme will be knowledge, and it will include libraries and conference rooms. The middle bridge theme will health, and it will have basketball courts and swimming pools. *Image: NBBJ*
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Inside Tencent's future headquarters. *Image: NBBJ*
