techPlate 504 · London, United Kingdom

30 St Mary Axe

A gherkin of glass that learned to breathe.

2004 · Foster + Partners · Europe

The chamber score

Nimrod

Edward Elgar · 1899

Civic weather.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Foster's diagrid tower, a landmark of environmental high-rise design.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct 30 St Mary Axe through tech — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if 30 St Mary Axe was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.