This is hidden brain.
I'm Shankar Vedantam.
Thank you.
Seattle is a city with plenty of well known tourist attractions.
The space needle, Pike Place Market, the Seattle Art Museum.
Today, though, I'm venturing out in the rain to visit a different sort of Seattle attraction.
It's an office building called the Bullitt center.
I'm here to meet Brian Court, one of the architects.
Hey, Brian.
Shankar.
Shankar, nice to meet you, Brian.
Nice to meet you.
Thank you for doing this at short notice.
And Brian and I are headed to the top floor.
My first instinct is to find the elevator, but it's nowhere in sight.
Did you forget to put an elevator in the building, Brian?
We do have an elevator, but we were trying to give people an option to take the stair first.
The best views of the bullet center are not from the CEO's office.
You get those views when you climb what people here refer to as the irresistible staircase.
So you walk into the stair enclosure, you look up, you see the stair all the way up to the 6th floor of the building, and that's hopefully going to draw you up the stair.