‘The Gherkin is a building that changes with the light, reflecting the sky and the city around it.’ But the Gherkin isn’t ...
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 ...
Can a single building impact the career of an architect, the image of a global ... that it is almost immediately nicknamed ‘the erotic gherkin’. Will the Gherkin become the landmark they ...
Lord Norman Foster, the man behind London’s Gherkin ... the Tower of London's moat to celebrate the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Lord Foster was one of a number of the world’s top architects ...
The five finalists will be asked to submit their plans for honouring Elizabeth II in the next few months, with the winner announced in the summer.
A gymnast swung off the top of The Gherkin in adverts for the 2012 Olympics, the instantly recognisable tower represented ... I get to observe and enjoy the architecture of this fabulous city.