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The Gherkin, officially 30 St Mary Axe and previously known as the Swiss Re Building, is a commercial skyscraper in London's primary financial district, the City of London. It was completed in December 2003 and opened in April 2004. [ 10 ]
The crown of the building includes a small wind turbine which helps to generate power for the building. [109] [110] 23: The Gherkin: 180 / 590: 40: 2003: Office: City of London: Formerly known as the Swiss Re Building. Nicknamed "The Gherkin". [111] [112] 24= BT Tower: 177 / 581: 34: 1964: Transmitter and Office: Borough of Camden
30 St Mary Axe, also known as "The Gherkin", and occasionally as The Swiss Re Tower, is an architecturally similar building in London which opened a year and a half earlier, in April 2004. Alain Robert, a famous climber who has scaled the building.
2004 – 30 St Mary Axe (also known as "the Gherkin" and the Swiss Re Building), designed by Norman Foster, completed in the City of London. 2003 – Taipei 101 , designed by C.Y. Lee & Partners the world's tallest building from 2004 to 2010 is topped out .
Most prominently, in Europe, the Gherkin, built-to-suit for the Swiss Re was built by Victor Buyck with construction starting in 2001. [72] [73] [74] The 40-sotrey structure contains 100'000 tonnes of steel and stands at 180 meter, the second tallest structure of the London Square Mile. [75]
This building was announced in 2008 but the project was cancelled in 2012. Russia Tower: ... Now built as the Gherkin. Palace of the Soviets: Moscow: Soviet Union: 100:
Significant high-tech works by Foster include The Great Court of the British Museum; a distinctive glass dome structure built over the central courtyard of the original 19th-century building, City Hall (2002) on the South Bank with its distinctive ovular shape and the iconic skyscraper 30 St Mary Axe (2003), dubbed 'The Gherkin', and winning ...
When the plans were first unveiled in 1996, The Guardian newspaper coined the term "erotic gherkin", [2] a name that other outlets quickly adopted and which stuck even after the plan was superseded, eventually becoming 30 St Mary Axe, the name of a different skyscraper that stands on the site today.