Name That Spire

By AISHA LABI

Some artists might take offense if their work were likened to a giant pickle, but the architect Ken Shuttleworth has no objection to the nickname that Londoners have bestowed on his most famous design — 30 St. Mary Axe, aka the Gherkin.

A newer creation, which is to be erected this year on the Jubilee Campus of the University of Nottingham,...