This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.

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 Corte, one of the architects.

Brian, Shankar. Nice to meet you.

Brian, thank you for doing this at short notice.

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,

if the wheelchair in that door will open.

But we were trying to give people an option to take the stair first.

Those stairs,

there are six floors of Douglas Forsteps built on an outer wall of the building.

Each floor has expansive landings that allow people to congregate and chat.

The best views at 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.

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