Funny boss, the office building is not used, and it costs 25.3 billion to abandon it, which is absurd
25.3 billion, what does that mean? In short, the cost of building is about twice that of Dubai or 15 times, but both the Princess Pavilion in Dubai and the Venetian Hotel in Macau have gained a higher reputation at a lower cost. And this 25.3 billion office building is designed to accommodate more than 400 people...What's even more outrageous is that this office building is going to build Building No. 2!
Back in 20010, Seattle residents suddenly noticed a parking lot on La Nora Avenue just five minutes from the sea, which was later demolished and then continuously excavated and filled. Three huge panes of glass were enclosed in front of everyone, and just when everyone thought it would be converted into a library or museum, Amazon, known as the "miser (linen)", suddenly declared that the building was its home base in the United States.
This sudden "arrogance" surprised everyone and attracted the attention of the world. You know, the land in the urban area, not money can be taken down, Seattle has vetoed several times those companies that do not meet the "iconic + cultural" standard, and the surrounding office buildings are as high as thousands of dollars a square meter.
However, when it opened in February 2018, Seattle residents discovered that this was an office building, and it was clearly a tropical forest.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Flax Home, said, "Flax House has one of the most rigorous corporate cultures in the country, so it took us seven years to build this office building at a cost of $4 billion ($25.3 billion) to provide the best working environment, better service and better planning for our talented employees.
A group of people questioned Feng Yu's words, Seattle's GDP is only 300 billion US dollars, how can it be 4 billion?
But the next paragraph surprised the most demanding journalists: seven years ago, they planned an office building larger than Apple, invested $900 million, including three huge circular buildings, worth $4 billion, to reward good workers, and Amazon moved the Amazon rainforest into its own room.
Could it be that some kind of exotic medicine can't be done? No, the flax family pays attention to reality, more than 300,000 square meters of land, planted more than 40,000 kinds of tropical crops, each crop carbon dioxide and oxygen content has reached the best balance for the body, the temperature control device developed by the flax company, can adjust the temperature from 16 hours to 22 degrees, and 8 hours at night, can reduce the temperature of the tropical rainforest to 13 degrees Celsius. On top of that, the temperature here is the most important, 60% during the day and 85% at night, watering, weeding, all done by computer.
However, there are some more common tree species, such as what we Chinese call "iron trees", but people buy big trees that are more than 300 years old, and they are still in the flowering stage. a tree that produces chocolate fruit; North American gubuazu, $50 per kilogram (the taste is a mixture of chocolate and pineapple, which tastes like pears and bananas); Made in Indonesia (excluding North American products, the Indonesian market** is 40 US dollars kg); South American Garbo fruits (similar to grapes) are also one by one.
Not only that, but Amazon also specially invited botanical gardens in the United States to plant a new plant called Titan Arum, known as "Corpse Flower", but it does not have any unpleasant smell, but exudes a refreshing fragrance. According to the owner of Amazon, the tree is not very expensive, only 80,000 dollars a tree, and he plans to plant five in this building...(This saves on pesticide costs).
For a world-class office building, greenery alone is not enough, Amazon's designers divided the offices on the second floor into different areas, ensuring that the three main clients could be reached within a minute. Therefore, you can find different styles of meeting rooms, office spaces, a circular bird's nest hanging in the air, and you can also get sunlight from the surrounding vegetation.
According to Flax, the initial group of employees will be more than 15,000 people, and the maximum number will be 400 in the "glass ball", and in the next two years, this number will increase to 600, and they are all the most promising talents in Amazon, with salaries ranging from 100,000 to 5 million, and their management and shares will be working in the office...For example, the CEO of Amazon actually took out 25.3 billion to build an office building that he couldn't use.
On March 8, 2018, Amazon announced that it was open to the public, and announced the company's plan for the second division, and the next investment will reach 5 billion US dollars