If it's like most of the buildings I work in, the windows are sealed shut or aren't even made to open. It's institutional technocratic rationality in its purest expression--and also a good example of how cultural norms (i.e. the use of climate controlled environment and the fear/insurance liability of the safety hazard of an open window in a building more than four stories high) determine behavior. It is a small scale version of the problems mentioned here about the general lack of choice in urban/suburban life--or the way that choice is circumscribed to a narrow range of possibilities, most of which result in the greatest profit and least risk for the developer, regardless of effects on the citizens or the environment involved.