30 St Mary Axe is a building in London's main financial district, the City of London. It is widely known by the nickname "The Gherkin", and occasionally as a variant on The Swiss Re Tower, after its previous owner and principal occupier. It is 180 metres (591 ft) tall, making it the second-tallest building in the City of London, after Tower 42, and the fifth-tallest in London as a whole. The building's name is its address — St Mary Axe being the street it is on. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article is about the year. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 30 St Mary Axe, one of Londons most popular new buildings, towers above its neighbours. ... Arup is a professional services firm providing engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. ... Work in progress on 30 St Mary Axe, one of Skanskas most high-profile contracts. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Motto: Domine dirige nos Latin: Lord, guide us Shown within Greater London Sovereign state Constituent country Region Greater London Status City and Ceremonial County Admin HQ Guildhall Government  - Leadership see text  - Mayor David Lewis  - MP Mark Field  - London Assembly John Biggs Area  - Total 1. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Cucumis anguria. ... 30 St Mary Axe - at 180 m, Swiss Res London headquarters is the 6th tallest building in London Swiss Re is the worlds second-largest reinsurance company (after Munich Re/ Münchener Rück), and the worlds largest life and health reinsurer. ... Motto: Domine dirige nos Latin: Lord, guide us Shown within Greater London Sovereign state Constituent country Region Greater London Status City and Ceremonial County Admin HQ Guildhall Government  - Leadership see text  - Mayor David Lewis  - MP Mark Field  - London Assembly John Biggs Area  - Total 1. ... Tower 42 from directly below Tower 42 viewed from street level. ... Canary Wharf is home to the three tallest buildings in London. ... St Mary Axe was a medieval parish in London whose name survives on the street it formerly occupied, St Mary Axe. ...

The building was designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Lord Foster and ex-partner Ken Shuttleworth and Arup engineers, and was constructed by Skanska of Sweden between 2001 and 2004. The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor a living architect. ... The restored Reichstag in Berlin, housing the German parliament. ... Ken Shuttleworth (born 1954 in Birmingham, England) is a celebrated British architect. ... Arup is a professional services firm providing engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. ... Work in progress on 30 St Mary Axe, one of Skanskas most high-profile contracts. ...

History of the site

The building is on the former site of the Baltic Exchange building, the headquarters of a global marketplace for ship sales and shipping information. On 10 April 1992 the Provisional IRA detonated a bomb close to the Exchange, severely damaging the historic Exchange building and neighbouring structures. The Baltic Exchange is a UK company that operates the premier global marketplace for shipbrokers, ship owners and charterers. ... is the 100th day of the year (101st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) is a paramilitary group which aimed, through the use of violence, to achieve three goals: (i) British withdrawal from Ireland, (ii) the political unification of Ireland through the merger of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland , and (iii) the creation of an all... The Baltic Exchange is a UK company that operates the premier global marketplace for shipbrokers, ship owners and charterers. ...

The UK government's statutory adviser on the historic environment, English Heritage, and the City of London governing body, the City of London Corporation, insisted that any redevelopment must restore the building's old façade onto St Mary Axe. The Exchange Hall was a celebrated fixture of the ship trading company. The standard of English Heritage English Heritage is a non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom government (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) with a broad remit of managing the historic environment of England. ... Motto: Domine dirige nos Latin: Lord, guide us Shown within Greater London Sovereign state Constituent country Region Greater London Status City and Ceremonial County Admin HQ Guildhall Government  - Leadership see text  - Mayor David Lewis  - MP Mark Field  - London Assembly John Biggs Area  - Total 1. ... Coat of arms of the City of London Corporation as shown on Blackfriars station. ... St Mary Axe was a medieval parish in London whose name survives on the street it formerly occupied, St Mary Axe. ...

Baltic Exchange, unable to afford such an undertaking, sold the land to Trafalgar House in 1995. Most of the remaining structures on the site were then carefully dismantled; the interior of Exchange Hall and the façade were preserved and sealed from the elements. Trafalgar House was a United Kingdom conglomerate with interests in property, property development, construction, passenger shipping and engineering. ...

After English Heritage later discovered the damage was far more severe than previously thought, they stopped insisting on full restoration, albeit over the objections of the architectural conservationists who favoured reconstruction.^[1]

Origin of "Gherkin" nickname

Looking south down Bishopsgate, one of the main roads leading through London's financial district. At 180 metres (591 ft), the building is the 6th tallest in London.

In 1996 Trafalgar House submitted plans for the Millennium Tower, a 386 metres (1,266 ft) building with more than 90,000 m² (1 million ft²) office space, and public viewing platform at 305 m (1,000 ft).^[2] This plan had to be dropped after objections; the revised plan for a lower tower was accepted. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (696x1909, 191 KB) Swiss Re Headquarters in London, viewed from near Liverpool Street Station. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (696x1909, 191 KB) Swiss Re Headquarters in London, viewed from near Liverpool Street Station. ... Looking north from a pedestrian bridge across Bishopsgate Bishopsgate, in the heart of Londons financial district. ... An artists impression of how the London Millennium Tower would look upon completion. ...

The gherkin name dates back to at least 1999^[3], referring to that plan's highly unorthodox layout. Due to the current building's somewhat phallic appearance, other inventive names have also been used for the building, including the Erotic gherkin, the Towering Innuendo, the Crystal Phallus, and the glass dildo.^[4][5][6] It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Cucumis anguria. ... This article is about the symbol of the erect penis. ...

The planning process

On 23 August 2000, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott granted planning permission to construct a building much larger than the old Exchange on the site. {| style=float:right; |- | |- | |} is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Under its uncodified constitution, the United Kingdom possesses no formal permanent office of Deputy Prime Minister. ... For other persons named John Prescott, see John Prescott (disambiguation). ... Main article: Town and Country Planning in the United Kingdom Planning permission or planning consent is the permission required in the United Kingdom in order to be allowed to build on land, or change the use of land or buildings. ...

The site was special in London because it needed development, was not on any of the "sight lines" (planning guidance requires that new buildings do not obstruct or detract from the view of St Paul's dome when viewed from a number of locations around London), and it had housed the Baltic Exchange.^[7] This article is about the cathedral church of the diocese of London. ... The Baltic Exchange is a UK company that operates the premier global marketplace for shipbrokers, ship owners and charterers. ...

The plan for the site was to reconstruct the Baltic Exchange. GMW Architects proposed building a new rectangular building surrounding a restored exchange — the square shape would have the type of large floor plan that banks liked.

Eventually, the planners realised that the exchange was not recoverable, forcing them to relax their building constraints; they hinted that an "architecturally significant" building might pass favourably with city authorities. This move opened up the architect to design freely; it eliminated the restrictive demands for a large, capital-efficient, money-making building that favoured the client.

Another major influence during the project's gestation was Canary Wharf. At the time, banks and commercial institutions were moving to Canary Wharf, because the area allowed buildings with modern, large floor plans. The City of London was not approving such buildings, forcing firms to disperse their staff across many sites. When the city realised the mass defection its policies were causing, it relaxed its opposition to high-rise buildings. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

Swiss Re's low level plan met the planning authority's desire to maintain London's traditional streetscape with its relatively narrow streets. The mass of the Swiss Re tower was not too imposing. Like Barclays Bank's former City headquarters, the passer-by is nearly oblivious to the tower's existence in neighbouring streets until directly underneath it. Such planning rules/goals create a city's visual identity — e.g. New York City's plot ratio and setback rules have had an enormous impact on how it looks compared to cities with more conservative rules like London and Paris. 30 St Mary Axe - at 180 m, Swiss Res London headquarters is the 6th tallest building in London Swiss Re is the worlds second-largest reinsurance company (after Munich Re/ Münchener Rück), and the worlds largest life and health reinsurer. ... St Edmund the King, Lombard Street Lombard Street is a street in the City of London. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... In the field of zoning, floor area ratio refers to a limit on how much total space, expressed as a fraction of the total size of the parcel of land involved, may be consumed by the floor or floors of a building or buildings constructed on the parcel. ... This article is about the capital of France. ...

The building

Work in progress on the "Gherkin". Construction began in March 2001; the building was topped out in November 2002 and officially opened in early 2004.

The building was constructed by Skanska, completed in 2004 and opened on 28 April 2004. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 326 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (435 × 800 pixel, file size: 58 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) 30 St Mary Axe, London - also known as the Swiss Re building or gherkin. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 326 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (435 × 800 pixel, file size: 58 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) 30 St Mary Axe, London - also known as the Swiss Re building or gherkin. ... Work in progress on 30 St Mary Axe, one of Skanskas most high-profile contracts. ... is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The base of the tower

The building uses energy-saving methods which allow it to use half the power a similar tower would typically consume. Gaps in each floor create six shafts that serve as a natural ventilation system for the entire building even though required firebreaks on every sixth floor interrupt the "chimney." The shafts create a giant double glazing effect; air is sandwiched between two layers of glazing and insulates the office space inside. The base of the Swiss Re Tower. ... The base of the Swiss Re Tower. ... Insulated glazing is a piece of glazing consisting of two or more layers of glazing separated by a spacer along the edge and sealed to create a dead air space between the layers. ... Insulated Glazing Unit or Insulating Glass Unit (commonly referred to as IGU) is described as two or more lites of glass spaced apart and hermetically sealed to form a single glazed unit with an air space between each lite. ...

Architects limit double glazing in residential houses to avoid the inefficient convection of heat, but the Swiss Re tower exploits this effect. The shafts pull warm air out of the building during the summer and warm the building in the winter using passive solar heating. The shafts also allow sunlight to pass through the building, making the work environment more pleasing, and keeping the lighting costs down. Convection in the most general terms refers to the movement of currents within fluids (i. ... Passive solar energy refers to collection systems that do not use other forms of energy to increase the effectiveness of the collection system. ...

Most tall buildings get their lateral stability from either a core column or by an unbraced perimeter tube without diagonals — or some combination of the two. This normally means that if they are designed to be just strong enough to resist wind load, they are still too flexible for occupant comfort.^{[citation needed]} The primary methods for controlling wind-excited sways are to increase the stiffness, or increase damping with tuned/active mass dampers. To a design by Arup, Swiss Re's fully triangulated perimeter structure makes the building sufficiently stiff without any extra reinforcements. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Arup is a professional services firm providing engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. ... The worlds first double curvature lattice steel Shell by V.G.Shukhov (during construction), Vyksa near Nizhny Novgorod, 1897 Thin-shell structures can be defined as curved structures capable of transmitting loads in more than two directions to supports. ...

Despite its overall curved glass shape, there is only one piece of curved glass on the building — the lens-shaped cap at the very top.^[8]

The primary occupant of the building is Swiss Re, a global reinsurance company, who had the building commissioned as the head office for their UK operation. As owners, their company name lends itself to another nickname for the building variants on Swiss Re Tower, although this has never been an official title. Reinsurance is a means by which an insurance company can protect itself against the risk of losses with other insurance companies. ...

On the building's top level (the 40th floor), there is a bar for tenants and their guests featuring a 360° view of London. A restaurant operates on the 39th floor, and private dining rooms on the 38th. This article describes the unit of angle. ...

Whereas most buildings have extensive lift equipment on the roof of the building, this was not possible for the Gherkin since a bar had been planned for the 40th floor. The architects dealt with this by having the main lift only reach the 34th floor, and then having a push-from-below lift to the 39th floor. There is a marble stairwell and a disabled persons' lift which leads the visitor up to the bar in the dome. For other uses, see Elevator (disambiguation). ... Singles bar redirects here. ... For other uses, see Dome (disambiguation). ...

The building is visible from a long distance: from the north for instance, it can be seen from the M11 motorway some 20 miles away while to the west it can be seen from the statue of George III in Windsor Great Park. This page is about the M11 motorway in England. ... Deer crossing the Long Walk to Windsor Castle Windsor Great Park (locally referred to simply as the Great Park) is a large deer park and Crown Estate of 5,000 acres, to the south of the town of Windsor on the border of Berkshire and Surrey in England. ...

After completion

The architectural design of the tower contrasts sharply against more traditional buildings in London.

On 25 April 2005, the press reported that a glass panel two thirds up the 590 ft tower had fallen to the plaza beneath on 18 April. The plaza was sealed off, but the building remained open. A temporary covered walkway, extending across the plaza to the building's reception, was erected to protect visitors. Engineers examined the other 744 glass panels on the building.^[9] Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2003x3869, 2572 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): 30 St Mary Axe Wikipedia:Featured pictures User talk:Diliff User:Edward/Scratchpad User:Diliff Portal:London/Pictures... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2003x3869, 2572 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): 30 St Mary Axe Wikipedia:Featured pictures User talk:Diliff User:Edward/Scratchpad User:Diliff Portal:London/Pictures... is the 115th day of the year (116th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 108th day of the year (109th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

In December 2005, the building was voted the most admired new building in the world, in a survey of the world's largest firms of architects, as published in 2006 BD World Architecture 200.

In September 2006, the building was put up for sale with a price tag of GB£600 million. Potential buyers included British Land, Land Securities, Prudential, ING and the Abu Dhabi royal family. The 40-storey skyscraper, when fully let, would have a potential annual income of GB£27 million. In December 2006 it was suggested that IVG Asticus, controlled by the German property firm, IVG Immobilien AG, had become the new owners of 30 St Mary Axe. GBP redirects here. ... The British Land Company PLC (LSE: BLND) is one of the largest property development and investment companies in the United Kingdom. ... Land Securities Group plc is a leading British property development and investment company headquartered in central London. ... Prudential plc is a United Kingdom based financial services company. ... ING House, ING headquarters in Amsterdam ING Groep N.V. (NYSE: ING, Euronext: INGA) (known as ING Group) is a financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, insurance and asset management services. ... Abu Dhabi or Abu Zaby (Arabic language: أبوظبي) is the largest of the seven emirates that comprise the United Arab Emirates and was also the largest of the former Trucial States. ... December 2006 is the twelfth and final month of the year and will begin in 2 day(s). ...

On 21 February 2007, IVG Immobilien AG and UK investment firm Evans Randall completed their joint purchase of the building for GB£630 million (approx. US$1.26 billion c. 2007).^[10] is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... GBP redirects here. ... USD redirects here. ...

Gallery

The base of the tower

Behind the church of St Andrew Undershaft

Cultural references

• In the children's book Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London by Keith Mansfield, the Spirit of London is a spaceship that, from the outside, is an exact replica of the building. When this ship is on Earth, the real building is folded away into hyperspace without its occupants noticing.
• The building is featured in the children's book Noah's Rocket by Tony Frais. To escape the coming flood, a modern day Noah converts the building into a rocket, piles all the animals in and the building blasts off into orbit around the Earth until it is safe to return.
• The construction of the building can be seen in different stages in the background of the 2003 film Love Actually.
• 30 St Mary Axe featured prominently in one storyline of the Vertigo Comics series The Losers, in which the building was depicted as the headquarters of a mega corporation with ties to a shady CIA operative.
• In "The Christmas Invasion", the 2005 Christmas special of the science-fiction television series Doctor Who, the building is seen to have all its glass blown out by the arrival of an alien spacecraft.
• The building has been featured many times in the 2007 film 28 Weeks Later.
• Woody Allen's 2005 film Match Point features scenes of the interior of 30 St Mary Axe. The character Chris Wilton works in an office in the building.
• The 2006 film sequel Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction features the building as the location of the office of David Morrissey's character, Dr. Michael Glass.
• The PlayStation 2 game The Getaway 2: Black Monday used the building as the fictional headquarters of the Skobel Group, and it is featured prominently in the game.
• The building can be seen in the movie Ultraviolet [1].

The top-floor reception area and restaurant

• The UK TV Series The Bill features the building within its opening credits.
• The building is the model for the multicoloured Harlequin Hospital in the fictional city Riverseafingal in the BBC children's programme, Me Too!
• The movie A Good Year, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe, depicts the building as the character's workplace, though most of the interior scenes were shot at Bloomberg's London offices, another Foster's building.
• The building is frequently seen in the opening credits of the British version of The Apprentice.
• The building was used in one of a series of 'Back the Bid' posters for the London 2012 Olympic bid.
• The building appears in the U.S. TV series Masters of Science Fiction, season 1 episode 3, as an outside shot for a futuristic courthouse.
• The building serves as the workplace for the character 'Wit' in Run Fat Boy Run
• Shown in the 2006 movie Alex Rider: Stormbreaker
• The building appears briefly in the 2007 movie The Golden Compass that features an alternative universe London.

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See also

• Broadgate Tower, the next skyscraper to be built in the City
• List of tallest structures in London
• Torre Agbar, a similar-shaped building in Barcelona
• Tower 42, the tallest skyscraper in the City of London
• Willis Building (London), another of Norman Foster's buildings

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External links

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30 St Mary Axe

• Official website
• Norman Foster's official site about the project — including Quicktime movies illustrating elements of the design process.
• 30 St Mary Axe at Emporis
• 30 St Mary Axe at SkyscraperPage.com
• London Architecture.co.uk: 30 St Mary Axe
• 30 Saint Mary Axe in the Structurae database
• SustainAbility article about the Gherkin's energy usage — Includes detailed information about the building's energy saving features
• 360x180 Panorama of St Mary Axe

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Skyline view with Tower 42, the Willis Building, 30 St Mary Axe and the Broadgate Tower.

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