30 St Mary Axe (The Gherkin) is an unmistakable landmark seen from any angle or distance, un-brash, yet more impressive the closer you get. ...the ability of a building’s / structure’s / shape / design to identify a city’s skyline is in its silhouette.

An epistemological study through dialectic methodologies relating to veracity of visual information in producing proof of actuality through validation of content. The Layered Synchronized Polyptych - The second methodology employed is the convergence of the ‘Synchronized Polyptych’; to produce an ‘Omniscient View’, a fourth all encompassing space.

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Gerald McLean, one of a number of photographers who share their images with RIBApix, was uniquely privileged to have worked for the renowned architectural photographer John Maltby (1910-1980).