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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	Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects 1971 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2004	1971
Place	City of London, City of London, United Kingdom	Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Place context	City of London, City of London, United Kingdom	Representative site: Aoba-ku, Aoba-ku, Japan
Climate	8°C · 14.2h daylight · 4 km/h wind	15°C · 13.4h daylight · 10 km/h wind · via Sendai Mediatheque
Focus	Architecture	13 works in corpus
Architects	Norman Foster	Toyo Ito
Linked context	Bureaus Foster + Partners	Notable works Sendai Mediatheque Ito-toren VivoCity Tama Art University Library
Typologies	building	library office building education campus building sports venue hospitality 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.	library, office, building, and education 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	6 of 6 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.