Amazon Tower II

Amazon Tower II

Tower under construction in February 2016
Alternative names Rufus 2.0 Block 19
General information
Status Topped-out
Type Office building
Address 2101 7th Avenue
Seattle, Washington
Coordinates 47°36′57″N 122°20′23″W / 47.615868°N 122.339850°W / 47.615868; -122.339850Coordinates: 47°36′57″N 122°20′23″W / 47.615868°N 122.339850°W / 47.615868; -122.339850
Construction started 2014
Topped-out December 4, 2015 (2015-12-04)[1]
Estimated completion 2017
Owner Amazon.com
Height
Roof 521 feet (159 m)
Technical details
Floor count 37
Design and construction
Architecture firm NBBJ
Main contractor Sellen Construction
References
[2][3][4]

Amazon Tower II, also known as Rufus 2.0 Block 19,[5] is a 521-foot-tall (159 m) office building under construction in Seattle, Washington that will house part of the headquarters of Amazon.com when completed in 2017. It is part of the three-tower campus that Amazon is developing in the Denny Triangle neighborhood, located at the intersection of Lenora Street and 7th Avenue.

The Amazon campus, designed by Seattle architecture firm NBBJ,[6] was approved by the Seattle Department of Planning and Development in late 2012 and excavation on the 37-story Tower II began under the direction of Sellen Construction in 2014.[7]

The block also features three 80-to-90-foot-tall (24 to 27 m), 65,000-square-foot (6,000 m2) glass domes facing Lenora Street that will house five stories of flexible work space for 1,800 employees and retail space.[8][9] The domes, separated from the building by an lawn and dog park,[10] was generally met with support and earned the project international press coverage;[11][12][13] one of the few critics included Seattle city design review board member Mathew Albores, who compared its pedestrian hostility to the EMP Museum, offering no rain protection and little retail.[14]

The project, covering the entire three-block campus, is also on track to receive LEED Gold certification.[6][15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "13 Million Pounds of Structural Steel Later… Block 19 Celebrates Topping Out". Sellen Construction. December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  2. ↑ Amazon Tower II at CTBUH Skyscraper Database
  3. ↑ Amazon Tower II at Emporis
  4. ↑ "Construction Updates for Blocks 14, 19 & 20". Sellen Construction. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
  5. ↑ Pryne, Eric (June 8, 2012). "Amazon’s 3-block complex has a timetable — and a name". The Seattle Times. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
  6. 1 2 "Amazon at Denny Triangle: Work Global, Live Local". NBBJ. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
  7. ↑ Cohen, Aubrey (November 30, 2012). "Seattle OKs Amazon towers". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
  8. ↑ Bhatt, Sanjay (August 19, 2013). "Amazon bubble building gets a cellular look". The Seattle Times. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
  9. ↑ Stiles, Marc (December 9, 2013). "City signs off on design of Amazon’s spherical building". Puget Sound Business Journal. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
  10. ↑ Swisher, Kara (October 26, 2013). "Amazon Builds the Spheres, While Google Opts for the Hulk". AllThingsD. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
  11. ↑ Johnson, Kirk; Wingfield, Nick (August 25, 2013). "As Amazon Stretches, Seattle’s Downtown Is Reshaped". The New York Times. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
  12. ↑ Wainwright, Oliver (December 20, 2013). "Amazon to build futuristic HQ of greenhouse domes in downtown Seattle". The Guardian. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
  13. ↑ Belton, Padraig (May 1, 2015). "How the tech industry is redesigning the future workplace". BBC News. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
  14. ↑ Bhatt, Sanjay (May 21, 2013). "Amazon’s plan for giant spheres gets mixed reaction". The Seattle Times. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
  15. ↑ Khaikin, Lital. "Amazon’s New Seattle Office Aiming For LEED Gold Status". Ecopedia.com. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
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