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Green-Roofed Twitter Headquarters in San Francisco Also Has a Yoga Studio!
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In addition to the swanky green roof, which is already populated by rows of leafy vegetables and provides a nice lunch spot for the company’s jubilant employees, the new headquarters boasts a micro health kitchen stocked with wholesome food and a tranquil-looking yoga studio. Either working for Twitter is so stressful that it’s necessary to offer such calming spaces or this is just one really progressive company.
We are going to err towards the latter given the 9th floor reception desk, which looks suspiciously like it is made of recycled materials, and Twitter’s insistence that the city provide better public transportation links to the area in addition to more dedicated bike lanes. Also included in the 80,000 square feet building, parts of which are being leased out, are cafes, restaurants and a very “cool” local grocery store.
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Via SFist
all images by @Troy Holden
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We’ve seen the inside of several funky corporate offices, including Google and Facebook, but Twitter might have outdone them all with their new green-roofed headquarters in San Francisco. Part of the city’s plan to revitalize a seedy neighborhood, was a
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Twitter has opened their new headquarters in San Francisco
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Housed in an 11-story art deco building on Market and 10th, the move is part of an agreement with the city
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In exchange for a tax reprieve, Twitter’s presence in a seedy neighborhood is expected to create some kind of urban revival
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But Twitter also reveals something of a sustainability ethos
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This is a micro health kitchen stocked with all kinds of holistic goodness
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The “Birdfeeder” – get it?
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Employees have loads of gathering spaces to choose from
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You guessed it: this is the yoga studio. Dream office? We think so.
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The 9th floor reception desk looks suspiciously like it is made of recycled materials.
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The rooftop garden is already looking pretty good
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This is another gathering space just outside the groovy health kitchen