It's easy to feel cooped up at work, especially if you're stuck in an office with fluorescent lights and few Windows.

Fiftyyears ago this Sunday, Theodore Maiman and his fellow scientists atHughes Research Laboratory shined a high-power flash lamp on a rubyrod, triggering a beam of coherent light: the first laser.

Skylights and Floor-lights are introduced to create a combination of striking lighting effects to the ground floor and soft lighting effects into the basement.