I’m no great fan of most of the city’s office towers and The Walkie Talkie building is probably the ugliest of the current crop. Awarded Building Design's 2014 Carbuncle Cup, architectural critic Oliver Wainwright wrote “it stands at 20 Fenchurch Street...on a site never intended for a tall building. It looms thuggishly over its low-rise neighbours like a broad-shouldered banker in a cheap pinstriped suit. And it gets fatter as it rises, to make bigger floors at the more lucrative upper levels, forming a literal diagram of greed.” It’s a pig to work in too as its downward sloping windows reflect the the interior ceilings where any half decent photographer would be shining at least some of his light and on a clear day the sun reflects off the upward sloping windows of the Scalpel opposite and blasts the north facing rooms with dazzling light. However, on a cloudy day in November the view from Level 28, partially reflecting the skeleton of the next big tower, is really rather good…..