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Foster goes Deco, and reinvents the skyscraper. What are we to make of the "Gherkin"?

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If you ever manage to get invited up to that restaurant on the top, you will like one final touch. Despite appearances, there is only one piece of curved glass in the whole building. It is right in the middle, right at the top, right at the tip: a circular domed porthole to the sky. That reveals an attitude on Foster's part that goes well beyond stern functionalism into the realms of romance. It actually looks as if he was having fun.

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