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Rising 180 meters above London's skyline, the 30 St Mary Axe, also known as The Gherkin, boasts 41 floors of architectural brilliance. Capturing the fusion of art and commerce in the heart of the city's financial district. Gherkin London, The Gherkin, London Skyline, Financial District, St Mary, In The Heart, London, Architecture, Building

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Rising 180 meters above London's skyline, the 30 St Mary Axe, also known as The Gherkin, boasts 41 floors of architectural brilliance. Capturing the fusion of art and commerce in the heart of the city's financial district.

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The Gherkin: How London’s Famous Tower Leveraged Risk and Became an Icon Norman Foster Architecture, Gherkin London, Urban Regeneration, The Gherkin, Architectural Review, Architecture Sketches, Section Drawing, Urban Sketches, Modern Construction

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Gallery of The Gherkin: How London's Famous Tower Leveraged Risk and Became an Icon - 2

Image 2 of 4 from gallery of The Gherkin: How London's Famous Tower Leveraged Risk and Became an Icon. As this diagrammatic section through a near-final version of the tower shows, atriums two and six floors tall link many of the office floors. Foster + Partners, Sheet PA1202, “Bury Street East Illustrative Section,” from a drawing set submitted with the final planning application for 30 St Mary Axe, July 1999. Courtesy of Foster + Partners.

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St Mary Axe was originally called St Mary’s Street. In the London Street names book of 1896, FH Habben, states that ‘ ‘in olden times, here stood a church dedicated to St Mary the…

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Bathed in sunset’s reddish golden glow, the Gherkin stands tall, reflecting the city's soul. The Gherkin, Golden Glow, Stand Tall, London, Building

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Bathed in sunset’s reddish golden glow, the Gherkin stands tall, reflecting the city's soul.

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The Gherkin is an example of postmodern architecture and neo-futurism, which evolved as a form of high-tech aesthetic. It was also designed with a focus on sustainability that makes it especially unique. Here are some of the notable characteristics of the Gherkin: Foster Architecture, Gherkin London, The Gherkin, Design Architect, Architectural Engineering, Norman Foster, London Architecture, Skyscraper Architecture, High Rise Building

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The building has become a true landmark of London, and it is one of the city’s most widely recognized examples of contemporary architecture.

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30 St Mary Axe | Foster + Partners

London’s first ecological tall building and an instantly recognisable addition to the city’s skyline, this headquarters designed for Swiss Re is rooted in a radical approach − technically, architecturally, socially and spatially. Forty-one storeys high, it provides 46,400 square metres net of office space together with an arcade of shops and cafés accessed from a newly created piazza.

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