[neilv]

> My office would get cooked by reflected light off of the big shiny silver thing

I knew someone in a Biology lab across from that. The light was blinding at times, and they had to cover the windows.

I later worked in Stata, but experienced mostly only minor quirks of architecture. And there were some good architectural elements too: the healthy and popular "main street" rather than sterile lobby, some of the common spaces where people would linger and impromptu encounter, the plywood fixtures (I suppose a nod to the malleable "plywood palace" Building 20 previously on the site).