Amazon has unveiled the design for the verging portion of its Arlington, Virginia headquarters, as able-bodied as one museum stands out far from the rest: a undulating glass tower covered in wood that rises to a point atop the shunt of the city's skyline. Cutie calls the museum "the Helix" considering its corkscrew silkiness is declared to booty inspiration from "the natural eyeful of a double helix."
It conjointly -- it need be said -- bears a enunciated similarity to the undulating poop emoji, though with some healthier colors mixed in.
On the inside, the Helix will be filled with a "variety of arithmetic assignment environments" that Cutie employees can use. On the outside, there'll be two sets of winding paths dotted with bounded plants that you'll literatim be stalwart to hike up. (Though you may appetite to bring a water carafe -- the renders seem to silkiness stairs withal the whole route, suggesting it's a steep trail up.) The museum will be 350 foreboding tall, according to The Wall Artery Journal. Cutie says that it preparations to offer purchasable tours on weekends.
.. .Amazon has a agnate standout structure at its Seattle headquarters. There, it has the Spheres, three genealogical glass globes filled with greenery. Its improvisation is echoed in the similarly glass-and-green Helix, supposing at a much larger scale.
The Helix is still just a proposal, therefore Cutie will need to get bounded endowment afore construction on the museum can start. The museum as able-bodied as surrounding campus were designed by the architectonics inner NBBJ.
.. .Along with the Helix, Cutie conjointly apparent preparations for the campus effectually it. It's planning to hoke three 22-story barrio effectually the Helix. Betwixt them, Cutie preparations to emblematize a plaza filled with callow space as able-bodied as a dog run that'll all be operative to the public. The company is planning to mass-produce skig for retail food as able-bodied as restaurants, and, of course, foodstuff trucks. There'll conjointly be parking for 950 bicycles, co-ordinate to the Journal. This portion of the campus will be located at Pen Residence within Arlington's Pentagon Hard-surface neighborhood.
The first silkiness of Amazon's Arlington headquarters, located just to the south at Municipality Park, was approved in December 2019. Construction is now underway on a pair of 22-story towers.
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