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  <title>30 St Mary Axe - Swiss Re Building (London, 2004)</title>
  <updated>2007-10-02T20:34:49Z</updated>
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    <id>urn:edouard:art:Architecture:30-St-Mary-Axe-Swiss-Re-Building-London-2004-:note-233</id>
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      <name>edouard</name>
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<p>&#8220;The Gherkin&#8221; (180 m, steel, aluminium and glass) by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Foster">Norman Foster</a> and ex-partner <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shuttleworth">Ken Shuttleworth</a>.</p>


	<p>A distinctive cone-like shape (to reduce the wind turbulence), environmentally sensitive approach to design, its omplex facade lets in air for passive cooling and then vents it as it warms and rises.</p>


	<p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Top_of_30_St_Mary_Axe_RJL.JPG/250px-Top_of_30_St_Mary_Axe_RJL.JPG" alt="" /><br /><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&#38;hl=en&#38;q=St.+Mary+Axe,+City+of+London,+Greater+London,+EC3,+UK&#38;t=h&#38;om=1&#38;ll=51.514311,-0.082011&#38;spn=0.00856,0.018969"><em>map</em></a></p>


	<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe</a></p>      </div>
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