William Gates Building, Cambridge

Building features

• The glass wall in the "fishbowl," a communal seating area in the building, is decorated with a paper-tape representation of the original EDSAC "Initial Orders" written by David Wheeler and of a program written by Maurice Wilkes in 1949 to compute squares
• The building's main thoroughfare, called "The Street", has tiles that match the binary, UTF-8 representation of 'Computer Laboratory — AD 2001 — ☺'
• The fishbowl contains the original door to the Mathematical laboratory

  Energy efficiency

• Aggressive sleep scheduling of desktop computers.
• Use of a chilled-beam convection-based cooling system, with Oventrop valves, to cool rooms in the summer, and warm the floor above in the winter.
• Turning off lights in corridors, and the street, using motion sensors.