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Comments about gherkinThere are 43 comments about "gherkin"
hc: i think the gherkin is like my favourite building.... zagg: Oh sure, it's nice and all but it's no Gherkin!
... ash: the gherkin is the best
... Paul: I live in downtown Toronto and I think our downtown is quite impressive, with the coloured lights on the Skydome and CN Tower it really enhances the night view and the Royal Bank Plaza glitters...... Ariana: The Gherkin is amazing. I have never been to London or been in person with it but it looks amazing and who ever built it....GOOD WORK...!!!!... Ah kan: exactly!! this is just an iconic, amazing, adorable piece of architecture!! the gherkin was built between 2001-2004! amazing errrr!!!!! ... Peter: those are some great shots... i, for one, would love to see more... nice {gherkin}, too...... anon (d14-69-18-230.try.wideopenwest.com): when did they put up the gherkin ?????????... gesls: I work in the Gherkin, and it is not as great as you all think, day in day out it gets tiresome... Janet Creed Canterbury Kent: Could anyone tell me if there is an open day coming up to tour the Gherkin as l would love to have a look around. It really is an amazing building?... poulet: strange,taking photos of the gherkin is not allowed.I was taking photos of aircraft landing at heathrow the other day and was surprised security didnt pounce on me(surely more potentially dangerous!... elaine: i hope you had a very nice bath, jamie. and do you know that credit suisse have now made it possible for the man in the street to buy shares in the gherkin now! i...... roland: St Andrews Undershaft looks like a friendly crumbly bit of religion, in a cosy COE kind of way - but beware the wandering visitor - Hawksmoor's chilling edifices lurk at the edge of the City...... eliza: Woohoo I love gherkins!... Ben: The actual name for the Gherkin is 30 St Mary Axe, which is just the address - boring. It's built on the site of the old Baltic Exchange which was blown up by an IRA...... anon (212.219.247.229): The gherkin is spectacuar!!! We went 2 c ut 2day!! Sara N Erin ... Tamara : I LOVE THE GHERKIN ITS SOOO COOL AND UNIQUE ISNT IT GREAT AND ALL YOU PEOPLE THAT DONT LIKE IT YOUR SOOO CRAZY ME AND CARLEY LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!1 OOOOPS... Carley: I think the Gherkin is sooo unique and its a great place to vist and im so proud to have this part of my capital city !!!!!!!!!11... Carley: I think the Gherkin is sooo unique and its a great place to vist and im so proud to have this part of my capital city !!!!!!!!!11... Carley: I think the Gherkin is sooo unique and its a great place to vist and im so proud to have this part of my capital city !!!!!!!!!11... *******: ummmmmmmmm, first of all who ever made this site is a total genius and i thank them loadz because im a 13 yr old girl and im doing a project on "the gherkin" for art...... Brenda: My brother is a chef in the restaurant on the top floors of The Gherkin, i wish i had such a cool outlook from my office! - cool or what!?... Hobart: I hereby nominate {London} for a second-tier ##Honorable Mention## due simply to the fact that its {skyline} contains the {Gherkin} building!
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... dawg: the gherkin is cool, and pickled in vinegar, mmmm... pickles.... oops thats not about that :-) ..
__...... jeeff: the subway photos are my faves. i like the canned light and the retro-futurist subway cars. are they all like that in london?
ps. from the {gherkin} directly to a {graf truck} - you've...... Drabbers: the gherkin is cool, and pickled in vinegar, mmmm... pickles.... oops thats not about this article, sorry about that... elaine: speak for yourself, j, i still think they are cool. i am a fool for anything big and especially engineery things, like the forth rail bridge [[http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=firth+of+forth+rail+bridge&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&start=0&sa=N]] or {the gherkin}, or that has moving parts....... Mayuri: i went on london visits wiv my architecture class frm college...as we went 2 visit Gherkin...wich iz a nickname for 'Swiss Re Tower'. it was an fabulous building...it a high tech building...evry1 took photos or...... steelisreal: thats why its called the erotic gherkin
I used to live in kennington an you could see it being built from my 3rd floor flat and it was all lit up in so many colors and...... elaine: ta, jack. of course, as it is a gasworks it is very definately not ##on## the water... that would be tres dangereuse. recent canary wharf pic [[1842:here]] and there are two more gasworks articles [[920:here]]...... elaine: fuzzytank - lets take your last comment first... would be my guess
lots of bombsites from WW2 mainly shape the higgledy piggledyness of london - after the big fire, that is, and there was a bomb...... fuzzytank: sooooo
did the belfast article get capped?
anyways i finally had something 'constructive' to add to it (as opposed to photos of piggies)
had a friend workin on a project lookin at this here gherkin
the true name of...... elaine: also, re context, our history with high rise building is very different from the US version, cheap tower blocks thrown up postwar to house the poorest when homelessness and slum clearance became acute, so we...... roisin : re: the gherkin
yeh, that's pretty funky! ive never seen the gherkin up close or inside, tho i see it constnatly from my street, like in the distance.. i like buildings that you can sometimes have...... elaine: did we lose steelisreal? i feel sorry if you hadda rely on me, you will be thinking london is all E2, and the visual equivalent of shoe gazing... this is not good. though I can...... elaine: today's standard had a headline 'gherkin in a pickle' which i expect they were just busting to use. seems a window fell 40 feet out the building... teething trouble... elaine: Re: The Gherkin's windows open! I was watching a 2 hour docco (!) on TV the other day and it seems that part of the innovation of the design is that the windows open making...... Jamie: Absolutely not buddy, russian contributions are good. Also: send some of those gherkins this way i'm peckish... Peter: also: though it is still morning here in nyc, i wouldnt mind some frozen vodka and salted gherkins, thats for sure... :)... Moscow: Vodka is good! Frozen vodka with home-style salted gherkins... Mmm... (went to get some vodka)... jen: Re: The Gherkin
I was just out there today, and people were snapping anyway without any problems...?... elaine: Re: The Gherkin
my friend tried to film outside the gherkin and the security men got very angry - it seems it is a breach of copyright of the architect... i think this is an interesting...... Peter: WOAH. thats cool! the gherkin. heh....
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