30 St Mary Axe, previously known as the Swiss Re Building and nicknamed the Gherkin for its shape, is a commercial skyscraper in the City of London, London's primary financial district. Completed in December 2003 and opened in April 2004, the 41 floor, 180 meter tower stands on the site of the former Baltic Exchange and Chamber of Shipping, both extensively damaged in the 1992 Baltic Exchange bombing carried out by the Provisional IRA in St Mary Axe, the narrow street leading north from Leadenhall Street.
Facts
Building Type Completed Year Completed Year Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Designed By
Designed by Norman Foster, widely known as The Gherkin.
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
A landmark High-Tech architecture tower.
Uses Element
The diagrid facade is clad in diamond-patterned insulated glazing units, part of the towers passive ventilation strategy.
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. 30 St Mary Axe (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationEntity description and the lead of the Wikipedia articleQuote, Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
30 St Mary Axe, previously known as the Swiss Re Building and nicknamed the Gherkin for its shape, is a commercial skyscraper in the City of London, London's primary financial district. Completed in December 2003 and opened in April 2004, the 41 floor, 180 meter tower stands on the site of the former Baltic Exchange and Chamber of Shipping, both extensively damaged in the 1992 Baltic Exchange bombing carried out by the Provisional IRA in St Mary Axe, the narrow street leading north from Leadenhall Street.
2. Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe, lead section, completion sentence
It was completed in December 2003 and opened in April 2004.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe, lead section, floors/height sentence
With 41 floors, it is 180 metres (591 ft) tall and stands on the sites of the former Baltic Exchange and Chamber of Shipping
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe, opening sentence
30 St Mary Axe, previously known as the Swiss Re Building, is a commercial skyscraper in London's primary financial district, the City of London.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe, opening sentence, backing the entity description
30 St Mary Axe, previously known as the Swiss Re Building, is a commercial skyscraper in London's primary financial district, the City of London.
View the Source 3. Wikidata: 30 St Mary Axe
- Wikidata Q191161, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q191161, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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