About the author  ⁄ Jay Taylor, P.E., S.E.

Jay Taylor is the leader of MKA's Cultural Specialist Group. Jay has had a 4-year involvement on the Seattle Design Commission, is an Honorary AIA Seattle member, and was appointed as Affiliate Instructor at the University of Washington Department of Architecture. (jtaylor@mka.com)

An Uncompromised Vision

Imagine your ideal office space. What does it look like? What if it was a sanctuary from the chaos of corporate office life and allowed you to recharge, relax, and be inspired at any time in the day without having to venture outside the heart of the city? This is precisely the kind of space Amazon was dreaming about for their new headquarters campus in Seattle, Washington. Doing away with drab and uninspired, The Spheres are a one-of-a-kind workspace that fuse nature into the corporate world. On a recent visit to the site, Jay Taylor, Magnusson Klemencic Associates’ (MKA’s) Structural Managing Principal on the project, commented that, of all the projects he has designed, he could not recall one that exceeded such challenging expectations in every way more so than The Spheres.

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