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 ...

Arguably his most famous building, The Gherkin is Norman Foster’s love letter to London’s skyline. Completed in 2004, this iconic glass tower is as functional as it is beautiful. Its ...

Its first name was the Swiss Re Building (after its main tenant), and later 30 St Mary Axe. But to Londoners it would always be the Gherkin. After opening in the spring of 2004, the skyscraper ...

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 ...