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You haven't missed much. The Gherkin is as deprived of a soul as the other towers in the city; and the bar at the top is just a place to bring clients so they c
by mstade 11y ago
You haven't missed much. The Gherkin is as deprived of a soul as the other towers in the city; and the bar at the top is just a place to bring clients so they can say "I've been to the top of the Gherkin." It's just a really sad place, and I don't miss working there. (If you have to go though, I can recommend Association – a coffee shop around the corner which is really nice. Despite all the cheap suits.)
- david-given 11y agoI'm not surprised. There's a strange talent in modern architecture for buildings which on the outside are these amazing, breathtaking shapes, and then to completely waste those shapes when designing the interior. Case in point: the Millennium Dome. This awe-inspiringly huge enclosed space... which was then partitioned up so that visitors couldn't see it.
- mstade 11y agoWell, no one cares what goes on inside the building I suppose. Most people – even clients – never enter them anyway. The most impressive office I've ever seen was an office in Chicago. Non-descript building, really couldn't point it out in a line up, but the interior was just amazing. Not the Google Disneyland oh-look-there's-cotton-candy kind of amazing; i.e. not so much novelty as it was just.. Classy I guess.