Does your office look like this? ... 30 Millbank, London. Photograph: Martin Godwin
It's probably not a brilliant career strategy to say you wish you worked somewhere else in print, but I'm sure the Guardian will forgive me. I was feeling jealous over Pacific Quay, the BBC Scotland's new headquarters in Glasgow, designed by this year's Stirling prize-winner David Chipperfield. It looks to me like an exemplary 21st-century workplace - spectacular but not flashy, spacious but warm, open but not oppressively so.
This is in marked contrast to the Guardian's own headquarters - a painfully ugly 1960s concrete warren on Farringdon Road that's as un-exemplary an office building as I can think of. I'm throwing stones at my own glasshouse, safe in the knowledge that we're moving next year to new, considerably more presentable offices in King's Cross - assuming no one fires me first.
I can't be the only person out there who's wondered if it would make any difference if I worked in an architecturally inspiring building - a Gherkin or a Lloyd's building, say. Are the buildings that make the architecture pages that good to work in? Or put another way, does anybody like the building they work in?
