The New A+A: It's Elfin's Tuesday Architectural Appreciation thread!!!

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Just stopped and had a look at the Gherkin as I came past into the office. You’re right, it is a double skin – I’d never bothered to notice. Also spent a minute doing the tourist thing and looking up the side while walking round the bottom – can’t believe I’d never actually done that before. Familiarity and contempt, I suppose.

No beef taken duntmatter.

I walked the voie one day, from La Defense to the Louvre. I remember wondering why there’s a fair chunk of it with absolutely bugger all going on. (Avenue Charles de Gaulle, looking at a map)

40mpg – it also bends the laws of physics! The basement becomes the 1st floor somwhere half way along.