Norman Foster’s new tower on the London skyline (it looks like a gherkin) demands your attention. It is “the most conspicuous eruption on London’s skyline in a quarter of a century; a single building that is as big as a small town, with 500,000 square feet of space and able to accommodate 4,000 people with ease. Whatever it’s called, this is the tower that ignited London’s current preoccupation with the skyscraper, breaking the 600-feet barrier in the Square Mile for the first time since 1979.”