30 St Mary Axe is a
commercial skyscraper in London’s primary financial district, the City of London. It was completed
in December 2003 and opened in April 2004. With 41 stories, it is 180 meters
tall and stands on the former
site of the Baltic
Exchange, which was extensively damaged in 1992 by
the explosion of a bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA in St
Mary Axe, the street from which the tower takes its
name. Source
