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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	Hiroshi Naito Architect & Associates 1981 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2004	1981
Place	City of London, City of London, United Kingdom	Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Place context	City of London, City of London, United Kingdom	Representative site: Asahikawa, Asahikawa, Japan
Climate	15°C · 14.1h daylight · 12 km/h wind	6°C · 13.7h daylight · 1 km/h wind · via Asahikawa Station
Focus	Architecture	7 works in corpus
Architects	Norman Foster	Hiroshi Naito
Linked context	Bureaus Foster + Partners	Notable works Asahikawa Station Takayama Station Makino Botanical Garden Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art, Ibaraki
Typologies	building	performance venue landscape museum memorial
Materials	Not recorded yet.	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.	The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	7 of 7 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.