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Facts
Official Name 30 St. Mary Axe
Former / Other Names The Gherkin
Swiss Re Tower
Type building
Status Completed
Country United Kingdom
City London
Street Address / Map 30 St. Mary Axe
Building Function office
Structural Material steel
Proposed 1997
Start of Construction 2000
Completion 2004
Regional Ranking #44 tallest in Europe
National Ranking #7 tallest in United Kingdom
City Ranking #7 tallest in London
Official Website 30 St Mary Axe
Figures
Height: Architectural 179.8 meter / 590 feet
Height: Occupied 167.0 meter / 548 feet
Height: To Tip 179.8 meter / 590 feet
Floors Above Ground 40
Floors Below Ground 1
# of Elevators 24
Top Elevator Speed 6 m/s
Tower GFA 64,470 m² / 693,949 ft²
# of Parking Spaces 272
Companies Involved
Owners IVG;
Evans Randall
Developer Swiss Re
Design Architect Foster + Partners
Structural Engineer Ove Arup & Partners
MEP Engineer Hilson Moran Partnership Ltd.
Project Manager RWG Associates
Main Contractor Skanska AS
Other Consultants KONE;
(elevator supplier)
RWDI
Videos
How I Squeezed the Gherkin
P.W.Rees (City of London), CTBUH Chicago Conference

Technical Papers
Embodied Carbon and High-Rise
Philip Oldfield (University of Nottingham), CTBUH Shanghai Congress
Birth of a Cybernetic Factory
C. Abel (Author), Architecture, Technology and Process

Other CTBUH Links
Case Study: 30 St. Mary Axe, London
CTBUH Technical Guide, 2012

News Articles
Combining the World's Great Skyscrapers into One Skyline
CTBUH Global News, 2013-01
Is London's Gherkin Going Penguin?
ZSL London Zoo, 2012-07
NZ owners of iconic London skyscraper launch Chch fundraiser
Scoop Independent News, 2011-04
Strange Skyscrapers: 14 of the World's Weirdest Towers
Web Urbanist, 2010-11