I think it's the bomb!
HA! Gherkin = Looks like a pickle!
It's not a building. It's a 96,784.50 caliber JSP bullet.
I'll bet there are plenty of people who colloquially call it something else.
I think the architect is compensating for something.
Now, repeat loudly: THIS IS NOT A PHALLIC SYMBOL!
I like it. I'm for anything that adds some variety to the stale architecture of the last several decades. I'm not certain whether Howard Roark would design anything like it though.
It is an interesting design, although being used to (relatively) square lines in buildings the shape is vaguely unsettling. I wonder about the original cost of construction - it seems that more structural material would be used in the helix, but perhaps if the floors are hung from the central core that would not be the case.
I also wonder what the impression is first hand. Sometimes a building appears quite different to the on-looker than it does in images from a distance.
I don't like it. I think it is the dark stripes that get me. If it was all pale blue it would be fine and probably not hardly noteworthy to the casual onlooker.
Thanks for showing it. I am interested in architecture.
I think it's the bomb!
What do i think? Other than the obvious, it doesn't fit into the overall skyline. No synergy with the rest. And it's not proportional to the other buildings.
Yeah, that's what it looks like. Doesn't suggest anything else. Not at all. Nope.
Could be dangerous. People might start looking at the crime and think hmmmm if only I had a few of those....
I can think of another name for it, but it's not printable.
I've never understood why, in the day when architectural detail could be manufactured much easier than in 'the olden days', why our architure has gotten simpler and plainer. Big shiny boxes.... yawn. Making it round doesn't seem to make it any more pleasing. Have we no artistic style anymore?
Yes, its a LAMELLA structural form(diamond pattern columns)built possibly as a sex toy for a very LARGE lesbian, on the one hand; but an intelligent design on the other as to three dimensional volume(sphere)vs two dimensional areas(cube). This gherkin form is very common in ancient storage jars, graineries, etc. As a fellow architect, at least give the guy credit for trying something different; where's YOUR imagination?
I wonder if it functions well? It does look odd in that skyline.
I took historic drawings of arcadian cottages and went around to architects until I found someone who understood I wanted a modern, efficient version with the same ambience. I feel completely in love with the acadian farmhouses during a trip through Louisiana. At that, the plans were redrawn twice before we got it right. I love having every room open up to outdoors, the porch that wraps around the entire house. I bought land on a mountain, but looks like it will actually get built in the rolling countryside (job changes).
I have a girlfriend who restores Victorian houses in Nashville (well, hubby restores, she lawyers). I have loved each of their houses, but wouldn't want to live in them.
This structure is one of many that will be created because of the design of the structure. The spiral shape is used because of the stability and wind resistance. The stability is phenomenal in the case of Earthquakes. The Japaneese architects are now starting to incorperate the use of the spiral shapeing. True there is more steel joints neede to create the spiral, but it helps out tromendously. That is why a spiral shape was going to be used to rebuild the twin towers. Ugly, but more efficient.