San Bruno is a stone's throw from San Francisco's airport, yet planes flying low overhead create barely a buzz. The complex's wood floors and veneer were harvested from sustainable forests. Not a single California live oak was cut down during construction, and a stand of the ancient trees rises in a dark elegance just beyond a piazza. But the special power of the structure is its palpable connection to the people who work there. The windows bring people to the sky.
Light is everywhere.
It fills the vast open hallways that seem to stretch on forever under ceilings 15 ft. high. He thinks abstractly, making it equally fascinating and difficult to talk to him, since he turns nearly every contribution one makes to the conversation into a refinement of his theories.