28 Commercial Street is a 1,200 sqm new-build office and community hub for Toynbee Hall, an East London charity tackling poverty and social injustice. The ground floor and basement house Toynbee Hall’s Advice & Wellbeing Centre, offering free legal and financial advice and flexible community space. Upper floors provide high-quality office accommodation generating sustainable rental income to support the charity’s work. A five-storey composition of layered brick forms and decorative tiling responds to the gothic character of the original Toynbee Hall and the urban grain of Commercial Street, reinforcing the charity’s presence in Aldgate.