🎥This Thursday [November 28], at 7 p.m., as a part of DAAP Architecture Studio’s month, LFA will host a film screening — Building the Gherkin (2005) by Mirjam von Arx.
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Can a single building impact the career of an architect, the image of a global company and even the skyline of a big city?
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Just a month and a day after the disastrous attack on the World Trade Center in New York, the first steel beam of a new tower was erected in London. One question is on everybody's mind: is it the right decision to build a new iconic tower in the midst of London's financial district, on a site that has already been bombed before?
The 40-storey steel and glass tower sparks further controversy. Norman Foster, one of Britain's most visionary architects, calls his design for the new Swiss Re London headquarters 'radical - socially, technically, architecturally and spatially'. In fact, its size and shape are so radical that it is almost immediately nicknamed 'the erotic gherkin'.
