Relay Building

No one who can liken this incoherent hulk of ill-fitting glass sheets to a blade of light deserves to build again in such a sensitive location.

[4][5] The entrance lobby is notable for incorporating a section of a London Underground C Stock train, used as a seating area.

In July 2014, an investigation by The Guardian newspaper – commenting particularly on One Commercial Street – noted a growing trend for new housing developments in London to include separate, segregated entrances of this kind, known as "poor doors".

[8][9] In November 2014, Vice reported that, "for the past 20 weeks, every Wednesday between 6PM and 7PM, a group of locals from the anarchist action group Class War have stood outside the slick glass carbuncle with a banner promising to 'devastate the avenues where the wealthy live' – a nod to a 1915 quote from firebrand Chicago anarchist Lucy Parsons."

A week later, a director of the new owners, Hondo Enterprises, agreed to meet with Class War, and they declared a temporary truce.