ABSTRACT
In 2003 the City fi nally got a building to outpace the Lloyd’s ‘86 building designed by a Richard Rogers team: Foster’s ‘erotic gherkin’ — opposite Lloyds and adjacent to GMW’s elegant Commercial Union building (120m), and counterpointing Col. Seifert’s still elegant Tower 42 a few blocks away (183m; formerly the NatWest Tower, the building that has dominated the City skyline since 1981).
