30 St Mary Axe in the City of London

1 March 2014 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, House of the Month, London Reading Time:  7 minutes

© flickr.com - Edward Simpson/cc-by-sa-2.0

© flickr.com – Edward Simpson/cc-by-sa-2.0

30 St Mary Axe, widely known informally as “the Gherkin” and previously the Swiss Re Building, is a skyscraper in London’s main financial district, the City of London, completed in December 2003 and opened in April 2004. With 41 floors, the tower is 180 metres (591 ft) tall and stands on a street called St Mary Axe, on the site of the former Baltic Exchange, which was extensively damaged in 1992 by the explosion of a bomb placed by the Provisional IRA.   read more…

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