Always the butt of phallic jokes, London's Gherkin was recently featured in a UK ad for erectile dysfunction, along with this tagline: "Lost the perk-in in your gherkin." Since its 2004 completion, the Norman Foster tower has also been called a "sexual aberration" by an urbanist, "a giant glass shaggy ink cap" by Prince Charles, and a "Why on earth did we do that?" by one of the guys who worked on it. So, things are going well. [Dezeen; previously]
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