As I mentioned earlier, we spent the past weekend moving the Seattle office from temporary space on the north side of the 42nd floor of Columbia Center to the south side of the 12th floor. I initially thought that this would be downgrading my fabulous view but no, it turns out to be an upgrade! Here’s the non-Mount Ranier side of the view from my office: (click for full size)
I forgot to bring in the good camera today so these are just wide angle shots with my Windows Phone 8 camera. It’s a little too bright to get a good shot of Rainier with this camera so that will have to wait.
As you can see, I stare right at the courthouse, the famous Smith Tower[1. Which was the tallest building in North America west of the Mississippi for many years.] and the harbor.
The ukulele storage room has a nice view of Rainier as well. We might also use this room for meetings.
The lunch area / lounge is super comfy:
And putting all this together required a number of trips to IKEA. A nickel is included for scale:
Thanks to my colleagues Laura, Jackie and Jeff for their hard work in setting up the physical and IT infrastructure; they did an awesome job in very little time.
Fabulous adventures in coding 
If that’s the lunch room, does Coverity just have six employees, or is it that only six employees are allowed lunch?
Coverity has on the order of 300 employees, 9 of which are in Seattle — I note that this is up from the two we had in February. We also have two additional lunch tables that are out of shot in this photo.
😉
But yes, it looks very nice.
I hope you have an electric screwdriver to mount all that, mounting a lot of Ikea furniture with the provided tool is painful, to say the least 🙂
Our real estate manager Laura has done this before; she brought lots of tools including a power screwdriver.
Hope you enjoy the new digs, “sir”.
Good heavens Paul, how are you? I haven’t heard from you or your brother and sisters in ages. What’s new and exciting? Feel free to email me, Eric@Lippert.com. Cheers!
So what ukulele songs will you be learning?
Have you wandered up to the 73rd story observation deck, yet? Pretty amazing the past few days when it’s been clear
Indeed, tenants get free access to the viewing room, which is quite pricy these days.
I was going to say. Wow! what a lot of cranes, but then I noticed the box-shadow inset for the comment input fields. Looks better than my version.
Greetings from a former denizen of the forty-somethingth floor. Assuming it’s still in operation, the old fashioned human-operated elevator – the rotary dial phone of the vertical people mover industry – in the Smith Tower is worth the walk down.
I’m so jealous of you right now.