The shiny door and the neo brutalist facade of the building are filled with all the post-war promise of forward looking architecture, pushing back against the previous nostalgia.

Behind the door, the spaces are by turns expansive and enclosed, giving rise to a sense of space, of place, and occasionally of wonder. The open hall, spanned by beams of bare reinforced concrete, floored with polished stone provides a surprisingly large space that is, frankly, a bugger to heat in winter, and a bastard to keep cool in summer.