Friday/ biosphere progress

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I love these outdoor metal shapes. This is outside the new Amazon headquarters across from where the biospheres are. I wouldn’t mind having some of these for my back yard!

Below is a pictures that I took today of Amazon’s biospheres, showing the progress that has been made in their construction.   Here are more pictures and a report from the Seattle Times.

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The outer frames that form the so-called Catalan repeating pattern on the dome surfaces, are in, and some of the panels as well. The white is a molding that goes onto the steel frame, and I believe the panels are actually glass (and not a special kind of plastic or resin).

 

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