Having followed the river from the bottom of the Gemmi, I reached the hotel's elegant foyer by late afternoon, red-cheeked and moist.
Servicing is tucked around the back and below, transforming the delivery yard gulley into a public entrance, where a broad staircase will rise to a lofty foyer.
Once the appetite for art is sated, a wander around the marble foyer of this Jugendstil print foundry (built in 1901) is highly recommended.
In search of coffee we head to the nearby Rose theatre foyer, which is full of latte-loving young mothers encouraging their offspring to let off some steam.
In the foyer of Portcullis House in the heart of Westminster, Sadiq Khan, who is tasked with galvanising Labour's push in London and seeing off the threat from the Greens, acknowledged the task ahead.
Stevens established himself in a vast ninth-floor office with a butler dancing attendance and installed a bust of himself in the foyer.
With husbands still calling friends from the payphone in the foyer for updates, or nipping across Finchley Road for a glimpse in the windows of Radio Rentals, it took an age for the ushers to get everyone settled.
The interior is like a throwback to another age: the brass and chrome-plated foyer, the one-clerk box office, the retro wallpaper.
To coincide with the Hydro's arrival, the SECC across the way opened a bar-kitchen restaurant called Clyde Built in its foyer, which isn't a bad option for a pre-gig sit-down meal (advance booking essential).
It is because of him that anyone entering the cavernous foyer of Barclays's Canary Wharf headquarters needs to watch their step – one false move can lead to a painful collision with one of the five huge perspex blocks positioned across the hall, each emblazoned with one of the values he recites at every opportunity: respect, integrity, service, excellence and stewardship.
When you see a hill before you, you want to climb up it, and so I put the wide steps in front of people leading into the foyer.
