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“Amazon HQ2 will strain spaces and systems on which all New Yorkers rely”

November 16, 2018 Alan G Brake 0

Amazon HQ2 will only exacerbate New York City’s already stretched infrastructure, cramped public spaces and sky-high rents, says Alan G Brake in this Opinion column. Amazon has announced it will locate tens of thousands of high-paying tech jobs in New York City. Instead of swelling urban pride and a sense of opportunity, the company’s expansion

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Amazon confirms New York and Virginia for HQ2, sparking protests

November 15, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Amazon has confirmed that it will split its major HQ2 between Arlington County, Virginia, and Queens, New York, triggering a major backlash from residents and local politicians in the latter. The retail giant revealed it will divide its second headquarters between Long Island City – a burgeoning riverside neighbourhood in New York’s largest borough – and the Crystal City

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Amazon HQ2 could split between New York and Virginia

November 7, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Amazon plans to split its major second headquarters in North America between Queens, New York, and Arlington County, Virginia, according to reports. After spending a year looking for a home for HQ2, the retail giant now intends to set up two bases, The Wall Street Journal has reported. Long Island City – a burgeoning riverside neighbourhood in

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Amazon to develop Alexa-enabled prefab homes

October 2, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Amazon has invested in Californian home design and prefabrication company Plant Prefab, with plans to integrate its suite of voice-controlled Alexa devices into affordable easy-to-build houses. Rialto-based Plant Prefab announced that it has received funding from Amazon’s Alexa Fund, which was established to support projects that innovate in voice-enabled technology, on 25 September 2018. Amazon

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Cody Seipp imagines Detroit as Amazon’s “hyper-designed” headquarters

July 23, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Detroit is taken over by Amazon in architecture student Cody Seipp’s conceptual project, which envisions the US city in 2051 following a major redevelopment orchestrated by the retail giant. Created by Seipp as his final project at New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Expo ’51 Detroit imagines the US city 33 years after it was acquired

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“Will Amazon’s HQ2 actually be good for whatever city wins the race?”

February 1, 2018 Aaron Betsky 0

North American cities are fiercely vying to secure Amazon’s second headquarters, but will the retail giant really improve the culture and infrastructure of the area it finally chooses? Aaron Betsky doesn’t think so. As the competition for the second Amazon headquarters heats up and the Republican’s war on cities intensifies, we have to wonder whether

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Plant-filled Seattle Spheres open at Amazon headquarters

January 30, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Retail company Amazon has completed a set of glass orbs filled with “cloud forest” gardens for its headquarters in Seattle, providing work areas for employees and green space for the public. The Spheres comprises a trio on connected glass domes, located in the centre of Amazon-occupied office towers in Downtown Seattle. Amazon founder and CEO,

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