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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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Skyscraper in London, England

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Comparison

Field	The Gherkin 2004 · City of London, City of London, United Kingdom	Heino Schmieden
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2004	Unrecorded
Place	City of London, City of London, United Kingdom	Unrecorded
Place context	City of London, City of London, United Kingdom	Representative site: Hilterfingen, Hilterfingen, Switzerland
Climate	11°C · 14.2h daylight · 12 km/h wind	14°C · 13.9h daylight · 13 km/h wind · via Hünegg Castle
Focus	Architecture	4 works in corpus
Architects	Norman Foster	Heino Schmieden
Linked context	Bureaus Foster + Partners	Notable works Hünegg Castle Martin-Gropius-Bau Mendelssohn Palace Biesdorf Palace
Typologies	building	building museum
Materials	Not recorded yet.	Not recorded yet.
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.	building and museum gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	No levers surfaced yet.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.