Will Self at the Geological Society, on Stockwell Bus Garage

Self portrayed a very generous building, one whose form – of small entrances that lead into an enormous space – plays with compression and release and whose design give a very generous space to people who are hemmed in to a tight spot, the bus driver’s cab, all day. It was, Self argued, a reified analogue of the post-war settlement, a concrete-and-glass Beveridge Report. Designed for people who drive buses, rather than people who play plastic pianos to serve the maws of maman, it’s a relic of a society now gone – one that cared about its workers.

Will Self at the Geological Society, on Stockwell Bus Garage