Lights… camera… Gherkin!
It has been brought to the attention of Astragal that a film called Building the Gherkin – by documentary-maker Mirjam von Arx – is doing the rounds. Friends of this esteemed organ have received the campest ever postcard promoting it. The front features three mugshots superimposed on a stock pic of the skyscraper. Whose faces? Well of course there's Norm (in a heroic pose), then there's the glamour from American super-client Sara Fox and finally there's über-planner Peter Rees. ...
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