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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 ]
A pickled cucumber – commonly known as a pickle in the United States and Canada and a gherkin (/ ˈ ɡ ɜːr k ɪ n / GUR-kin) in Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand – is a usually small or miniature cucumber that has been pickled in a brine, vinegar, or other solution and left to ferment.
In the City of London, The Gherkin was completed in 2003 at 180 metres (590 ft), [42] Heron Tower in 2007 at 230 metres (750 ft), [43] and the Broadgate Tower in 2008 at 165 metres (541 ft). [44] [41] Notably, some of the awards given to 30 St Mary Axe include the Emporis Skyscraper Award in 2003 [45] and the RIBA Stirling Prize for ...
Gherkin is the language that Cucumber uses to define test cases. It is designed to be non-technical and human readable, and collectively describes use cases relating to a software system. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The purpose behind Gherkin's syntax is to promote behavior-driven development practices across an entire development team, including ...
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The Gherkin 30 St Mary Axe, London - known to locals as the Swiss Re Tower or The Gherkin. I took this photo last weekend of the Swiss Re Tower in the City of London. It is a high quality panoramic (four segment vertical) image illustrating both the tower and the contrast of the the very modern architecture of the tower to the more traditional buildings in London.
The logo of the tour shows a smiling gherkin on a bicycle. At the annual Spreewald-Marathon , which is held in the disciplines of running, bicycling, hiking, canoeing, and skating, the competition is started with, " Auf die Gurke, fertig, los" (On the gherkin, steady, go!) instead of " Auf die Plätze, fertig, los" (ready, steady, go!).
The proposal was scrapped and instead Foster proposed 30 St Mary Axe, popularly referred to as "the gherkin", after its shape. Foster worked with engineers to integrate complex computer systems with the most basic physical laws, such as convection. In 1999, the company was renamed Foster + Partners.