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A Virtual Tour Through the Best Innovative Green Building

Enter the mixed-use development of two 30-storey blocks of offices and two 34-storey blocks of luxury residences on top of a four-storey retail block, and you’ll find a lush tropical biodiversity garden. Enter the Marina One complex in Singapore, which has received the MIPIM 2018 award for Best Innovative Green Building.

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The World's Next Tallest Skyscraper is 252 m Tall, Aiming at 1000 m

The Jeddah Tower. When the 1,000-meter-tall building, now constructed in the Saudi Arabian town of Jeddah, opens in 2020, it will knock Dubai's iconic Burj Khalifa off its throne as the tallest skyscraper in the world.

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Now You Can Finally Work in Rainforest Office Complex

Amazon opened a new office in January shaped as a series of glass spheres containing an indoor rainforest. The tech giant’s new building, called the Sphere, in its hometown of Seattle houses more than 40,000 plants made up of more than 400 different species. Plants, trees, sunlight, soil, and water take center stage – the sound of running water and the scent of flowering plants create an instant botanical immersion that takes visitors far away from the urban landscape. "The Spheres are a result of innovative thinking about the character of the workplace and an extended conversation about what is typically missing from urban offices – a direct link to nature," says Amazon in a press release.

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TOP 9: The Most Beautiful Office Buildings in India

The architecture of India. This is not “just” the great Taj Mahal, breathtaking Hindu temples, gorgeous palaces or other ancient monuments. Today modern India can boast high tech buildings that are often main offices of the world’s leading companies as well. Colourful Adobe headquarters, fish-shaped office building of National Fisheries Development Board or amazing extraterrestrial Egg Building in Mumbai by James Law Cybertecture. Let’s have a look at TOP 9 the most beautiful office buildings in India in the following video by Top List Provider.

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The Future of Workplaces: Does It Look Like the Tieto Keilalahti Campus?

Two years ago, the IT company Tieto moved its headquarters to the new Keilalahti Campus administration building (in the city of Espoo in southern Finland). Since then they have built it up into one of the smartest offices in Scandinavia. Up to eight thousand sensors watch literally every employee’s trajectories. According to the vision laid out in the promotional video, very soon workdays will be organized through a special mobile app—it will show you the best route to work, automatically open the garage door, make your favorite latte even before you step out of the elevator, and automatically turn on your computer when you walk up to it... “The way we work today has changed dramatically from even a few years ago. Driven by new technology, people have greater expectations than ever before when it comes to their working life - they expect it to be as flexible as their personal life,” decribes Patrik Etelävuori, Head of Concepts and Innovations - Facilities at Tieto.

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Bloomberg Headquarters is “the Most Sustainable Office”

The administrative building located between St Paul’s Cathedral and the Bank of England in London is quite likely Europe’s most environmentally friendly administrative building. The newly completed European headquarters for the FinTech and data company Bloomberg was given a rating of Outstanding (98.5% out of a maximum of 100%) by the BREEAM assessors, who rank projects on their environmental, social, and economic sustainability. The building is designed to use 73% less water and 35% less energy than a standard office building. For example, the ceiling panels are covered in 500,000 energy-saving LEDs. “We believe that environmentally friendly practices are as good for business as they are for the planet,” said Bloomberg’s founder Michael Bloomberg.