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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

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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The Gherkin London, London Skyscrapers, Gherkin London, The Gherkin, London Cityscape, Highgate Cemetery, London Buildings, Beautiful London, London Architecture

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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