I saw an article about the McLaren Technology Centre in an auto magazine. It seems that the building is both an architectural triumph and an expression of it's director's mental health.
Here's a quote I found on-line from http://www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/november/mclaren.htm
@unknownuser said:
Indeed, the building has become something of a built expression of Ron Dennis himself. Many of the operative features of the building are a result of his personal ethic, such as his clean desk policy, a rule of no food or drink in desk areas, his hatred of blinds, pipes and cables ("How can a mind be right if under the desk is a chaos of wires?") and his no-touching plan for many office systems, such as the lavatories, in which the flush, soap dispenser, tap and dryer are all operated by sensor. Dennis wants to achieve a space that attracts and facilitates the best minds in the business through what boils down to social engineering. The problem is that the metaphor of the building as an extension of McLaren's F1 cars reduces the people inside it to cogs and valves
For me, that changes the beautiful space into something a little sinister.