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 ...

It will also feature a public garden on the 11th floor ... England and Tower Hamlets Council. The building, with a height of 309.6m (1015.8ft), will be situated between the Gherkin and the ...

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The Gherkin in St Mary Axe, near Aldgate — previously known as the Swiss Re building— is an icon on the skyline, 591ft tall with an observation deck on the top floor. The nickname comes from ...

Can a single building impact the career of an architect ... so radical that it is almost immediately nicknamed ‘the erotic gherkin’. Will the Gherkin become the landmark they all dream ...