A different colour has been chosen for the paintwork of each floor, but the main effect is of clean, highly polished rooms of a light ivory tint which, in spite of the heavy teak benches, are extraordinarily bright and cheerful-looking whatever the weather outside, An interesting result of this, I gathered, is that, automatically and without any prompting, all using the building have taken to wearing light or white overalls, a practice that had been dropped in the old laboratories.
The office block with the staircase and lift crossing the north end of the building is as workmanlike and efficient-locking as the laboratories, but accessible to the sun and no doubt by now furnished and equipped with suitable modern furniture by the architect, well known as an interior decorator even before he was known as an architect. I hope under no circumstances or for any reason, however sentimental, will any old furniture or carpets be allowed to intrude into this strangely new and clean structure, which reminds one more of a racing yacht than of an ordinary, everyday building.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.