Helen Stephenson's Gherkin (Swiss Re) Window Cleaning Pictures, September 9th, 2005

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The Swiss Re Building, otherwise known as The Gherkin, is very close to the office where I worked in 2005 and 2006 and I pointed my camera at it from time to time, sometimes from a vantage point on the fourth floor of the office.

These pictures were captured using a Pentax *ist DS digital SLR camera.

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The Swiss Re Building, with its curved shape, illustrates some interesting window cleaning solutions.

Here are the top floors of the building, photographed from my office building on a day when the window cleaning hardware was in use.

 

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The mechanism for suspending a window cleaner's cradle. The arm is adjustable so that the cradle is suspended where it will meet the building for any given floor.

 

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Here's a picture I took a few days earlier which shows the suspended cradle at the top of its travel on the suspension arm.

 

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The articulated arm to facilitate cleaning the windows above the track.

 

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And no, I have no desire to ride in any of these devices!


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