But to Londoners it would always be the Gherkin. After opening in the spring ... it is smaller at the top and bottom to make ...

Each floor rotates five degrees from the last and the only curved piece of glass on the entire building is at the very top. The Gherkin won the Royal Institute of British Architects' Stirling Priz ...

In fact, its size and shape are so radical that it is almost immediately nicknamed ‘the erotic gherkin’. Will the Gherkin become the landmark they all dream of?

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A gymnast swung off the top of The Gherkin in adverts for the 2012 Olympics, the instantly recognisable tower represented London in the Harry Potter films, and Taylor Swift chose the building as a ...