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The Gherkin in City of London, United Kingdom

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The Gherkin

2004 · City of London, City of London, United Kingdom

The Gherkin image

Skyscraper in London, England

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The Gherkin

City of London, City of London, United Kingdom · Exact work coordinates

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The GherkinThe Gherkin

2004 · City of London, City of London, United Kingdom

GrimshawGrimshaw

New York, United States

Typeworkbureau
Year / years2004Unrecorded
PlaceCity of London, City of London, United KingdomNew York, United States
Place contextCity of London, City of London, United KingdomRepresentative site: City of Melbourne, City of Melbourne, Australia
Climate12°C · 14.2h daylight · 13 km/h wind15°C · 10.9h daylight · 3 km/h wind · via Southern Cross railway station
FocusArchitecture12 works in corpus
Architects
  • Norman Foster
  • Nicholas Grimshaw
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Foster + Partners

Notable works

  • Southern Cross railway station
  • Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA station
  • Sainsbury's, Camden
  • Eden Project
Typologies
  • building
  • sports venue
  • building
  • museum
  • education
  • campus building
  • house
  • infrastructure
  • transportation
Materials

Not recorded yet.

  • steel
  • glass
  • concrete
  • timber
Carbon signals

building gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet.

No dominant drivers yet.

Concrete, Steel, and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • Glass
Lower-carbon levers

No levers surfaced yet.

  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
AccessibilityAccess not recorded1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
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