The firm I worked for these twenty years ago moved into a brand spanking new building by an award-winning architect that was absolutely stunning to look at. The week after we moved in, the temperatures hit 38 for a solid fortnight. The exterior was mostly glass, the air conditioning had not yet been fully installed, and the architect's vision did not include blinds.

Staff who had laptops worked in the underground garage (this was 2001, it wasn't many of them). The rest of us hung bedsheets in the windows. I don't know how that accorded with his vision, but there was nothing in the contract to say we couldn't...