11/5/2013 · In this, the first of four installments examining the Gherkin, the London office tower and urban icon designed by Foster + Partners, author Jonathan Massey introduces the concept of “risk design …
11/12/2013 · The Gherkin: How London’s Famous Tower Leveraged Risk and Became an Icon (Part 2) 12 Nov 2013. ArchDaily.
The Gherkin: How London’s Famous Tower Leveraged Risk and Became an Icon How does design change the nature and distribution of risk? In this, the first of four installments examining the Gherkin, the London office tower…
Apr 7, 2020 – Image 2 of 4 from gallery of The Gherkin: How London’s Famous Tower Leveraged Risk and Became an Icon. As this diagrammatic section through a near-final version of the tower shows, atriums two and six floors tall link many of the office floors. Foster + Partners, Sheet PA1202, “Bury Street East Illustrative Section,” f…, The Gherkin: How London’s Famous Tower Leveraged Risk and Became an Icon (Part 2) This four part series (originally published on Aggregate’s website) examines The.
The Gherkin: How London’s Famous Tower Leveraged Risk and Became.
The Gherkin: How London’s Famous Tower Leveraged Risk and Became.
The Gherkin : How London’s Famous Tower Leveraged Risk and …
The Gherkin : How London’s Famous Tower Leveraged Risk and …
Jun 19, 2014 – Image 3 of 3 from gallery of The Gherkin: How London’s Famous Tower Leveraged Risk and Became an Icon (Part 3). This perspective sketch from fall 1998 shows how the base of the building might function as an airy retail zone extending below plaza level. Foster + Partners, Swiss Re House, Record Set of Presentation, 19th…, Apr 21, 2012 – March 2007 Back to the Constructing our lives packageArchitecture has in the past done great things for geometry. Together with the need to measure the land they lived on, it was people’s need to build their buildings that caused them to first investigate the theory of form and shape. But today, 4500 years after the great pyramids were built in Egypt, what can mathematics do, Oct 11, 2014 – View of The Gherkin from outside LOCATION: OTHER BUILDINGS IN THE SURROUNDING: FACTS AND FIGURES DIMENSIONS: Height to top of dome: 179.8 m Height to highest occupied floor level: 167.1 m Number of floors above ground: 40 Number of basement levels: single basement across whole site Largest floor external diameter (lvl 17): 56.15 m Site area: 0.57 …
