On: Amazon’s colorful new towers will put a bold stamp on Seattle’s skyline

[wisty]

Spacious buildings can be a problem. You decrease the density of engineers / square foot, which reduces collaboration.

Of course, skyscrapers can also be bad, as it limits mixing. People only tend to interact with people on the same floor.

[yottabyte47 → wisty]

I'm not sure if that's the case. Pixar's campus is another example of a large, low building and it's central atrium is specifically designed to encourage random encounters among employees.

[thornofmight → wisty]

Apple's new campus is designed specifically to increase collaboration and random encounters.