Talk:London Millennium Tower

Time
At what time was this building planned? --Abdull 18:37, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Gherkin
I have removed the nonsense that suggested that the 'erotic gherkin' nickname originally referred to this building rather than to 30 St Mary Axe. The Guardian source clearly refers to the planned new, lower, 41 floor building that replaced the plans for the Millenium Tower. There also seems to have been some confusion with an editor misunderstanding what a 'gherkin' is in British English - a whole, pickled baby cucumber. The Guardian was correct; it was the editor who was mistaken. The shape of a complete gherkin is what has lent St Mary Axe its nickname; nothing to do with the floorplan of the Millenium Tower/dill pickle slices.
 * Oh, for heaven's sake - some of us were working property journalists at the time the Millennium Tower plan was launched in 1996. Don't make me go into the loft and dig the clipping out. I know WP doesn't like to let the facts get in the way of a good argument, but alas not everything is on the sodding Web. The cite is the earliest on the Web, but the Guardian has been published for a tad longer. There was no misunderstanding - the subs just thought it was funny. Icundell 08:22, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia depends on WP:reliable sources, not one person's memory. Qwfp (talk) 22:39, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I have added a citation for this. Camembert (talk) 12:27, 20 October 2011 (UTC)