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The Gherkin, London, England

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.

This free self-guided City of London walking tour will show you the highlights of the area and reveal secret places. There's a map, too.

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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SwissRe Tower(Gherkin),London,Britain

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Gherkin image saved from google engine. This picture helps me to capture a closer look into the design of the windows, the colours used & the worlds reflection into it. This image really helped me in designing the garment for my portfolio. My colour palette was created from inspiration of this image. My first pallets consists of blues & last palette consists of black white & greys.