Amazon Won't Let Its Team Talk About Making Globe Connections
The only true transparency related to the trio of steel-framed spheres—the centerpiece of Amazon’s 3.3-million-sq-ft headquarters in seismic Seattle—are the glass panes that enclose the faceted, terrarium-like structures.
Design, fabrication and erection of the spheres—the biggest is 95 ft tall and 130 ft in diameter—may forever remain shrouded, thanks to nondisclosure agreements signed by the involved firms, including fabricator Canron Steel Inc. and The Erection Co. Architect NBBJ, structural engineer Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Sellen Construction and steel fabrication consultant Columbia Wire and Iron. They declined to be interviewed about the 57,000-sq-ft project, scheduled for a December 2017 completion.