Image description: The Gherkin - 30 St Mary Axe or Swiss Re building - rising against blue sky with banded cloud, with the white former Port of London Authority HQ building in middle foreground, The City, London.

The Gherkin, designed by architects Foster and Partners, is an environmentally sophisticated, 40 storey, diagonal steel structure with spiralling lightwells.

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