One winter morning, an employee explained why he had shown up for work 45 minutes late, "It was so slippery out that for every step I took ahead, I slipped back two."
These floors are stepped back to create terraces surrounded by balustrades, which are made up of vertical metal pieces coloured the same dark red as the brickwork.
Proponents point to features such as the terraced "beaches" shown in one image, which could conceivably have been left behind as a lake or ocean evaporated and the shoreline receded.
I leaned back in my desk chair and, as I do when I'm tired, pulled on my right earlobe and scratched my head, the right forefront where my hairline is beginning to retreat.