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 ...

Manchester United have finally unveiled their ambitious new plans to build a new stadium – and have enlisted one of the world ...

Its first name was the Swiss Re Building (after its main tenant), and later 30 St Mary Axe. But to Londoners it would always ...

Can a single building impact the career of an architect ... so radical that it is almost immediately nicknamed ‘the erotic gherkin’. Will the Gherkin become the landmark they all dream ...

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‘But people called the Gherkin ugly when it was first erected ... an already famous silhouette,’ Bill explained. ‘You are building it in the middle of the cluster and will make very little ...

To try to revive the reputation of architects, the Royal Institute of British Architects created the Stirling Prize, British ...

House music has reshaped culture globally, and it wouldn’t be the same without the Warehouse—it might not even exist at all. But you could say the same thing about most of the lesser-known DJs, ...

An application has been submitted with the City of London Corporation for a new 46-storey office building by The Gherkin. AXA IM Alts, the investment arm of the insurance company AXA, is looking to ...

A gymnast swung off the top of The Gherkin in adverts for the 2012 Olympics, the instantly recognisable tower represented London in the Harry Potter films, and Taylor Swift chose the building as a ...