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Building the Gherkin

05/10/2005

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1hr 29min

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Documentary

Can a single building impact the career of an architect, the image of a global company and even the skyline of a big city?

STORY

Can a single building impact the career of an architect, the image of a global company and even the skyline of a big city? 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 is 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 ‘radial – socially, technically, architecturally and spatially’. In fact, its size and shape are so radical that it is almost immediately nicknamed ‘the erotic gherkin’. Will the Gherkin become the landmark they all dream of?

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Norman Foster
  • John Coomber
  • Rees Peter Wynne
  • Fox Sara
  • Picardi Carla

    Director

  • Mirjam von Arx

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Condor Films

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Norman Foster

Self

John Coomber

Self

Rees Peter Wynne

Himself

Fox Sara

Herself

Picardi Carla

Herself

Forrester John

Himself

Walter Kielholz

Himself

Ken Livingstone

Himself

Scott Paul

Himself

Partington Robin

Himself

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