Do you, or have you ever, worked in a very famous building?

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I've just lost the best part of a day watching Designated Survivor and it has made me think about all of the behind-the-scenes people who work in The White House, or Buckingham Palace, or any kind of place like that.

Does anyone have any exciting stories of what it is actually like?

I worked in an office deemed Britain’s Ugliest Building. Built in the 60s, metal window frames, fungus growing through the carpet. Such a treat!

Have worked in several famous London landmark buildings - nothing beats the thrill of walking to work through a medieval cloister, or sitting at a computer while the strains of Handel sung live from a cathedral floor filter up to you

I worked at Broadmoor for a while. It's a very strange mixture of old and new, hi-tech and antiquated. All the security areas are very modern and make you a bit uncomfortable, like a very humourless version of being stopped in customs, but then you emerge into a big open area surrounded by the old Victorian buildings. The gardens are huge and there are lots of huts housing classrooms and hobby rooms etc, and a beautiful chapel which I briefly considered as a wedding venue before remembering where it was! A lot of the patients' areas are very dilapidated and quite creepy, though, and there's a heavy, palpable air of stuff-having-happened that can be oppressive. I always felt lighter after leaving, but it was in many ways a beautiful place too, just sad.

not nearly as famous as all of these, but I worked in the clock tower of the Ferry Building in San Francisco. Was lovely really, we had a beautiful deck that looked out on Alcatraz. I held staff evaluations out there on nice days

I now work in the Tiffany Building. Sounds glamorous. Hard to get in the door for the gaggles of tourists getting their pictures taken in front of the actual store.

Blackpool Tower 😀🤣

I wonder how many posters on here are trying to work out whether they know each other.

I was working in a building where vast amounts of cash was stored for one of the UK's largest High Sreet bank.
Most of the building was underground so you'd never really know that most of it was there.
I took a wrong turn going from the meeting room to the loos and within seconds a security guard was speaking to me over a tanoy in the corridor telling me what way to head. I didn't realise until then they were pretty much watching our every move!

I wonder how many posters on here are trying to work out whether they know each other. grin

Well having worked at a lot of these places I'm guessing paths have crossed at some stage. Perhaps I need to add a mumsnet scarf to my workwear?

I agree with MrsLupo about Broadmoor. It's a beautiful fascinating place but you just have this heavy feeling while you are there. I hated the clunk of the gates when I went in.