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 bullet 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 through the door to the left.
If you're in a wheelchair or you're not able to climb the stairs, you just hit the button there with the wheelchair and the door will open.
But we were trying to give people an option to take the stair first.
Those stairs.