In Adelaide, we actually have our own "Cheese Grater" building, but instead of being a giant wedge, it actually looks like it has giant grating holes on it.
There is a large black glass building in Wellington, New Zealand. It was the head quarters of the Bank of New Zealand. I remember people calling Darth Vaders Pencil Box. 1 Willis St, Wellington, NZ. I still call it BNZ tower, but it has been renamed perhaps two or three times.
My Birmingham friend and I have a rather unique nickname for the Selfridges building in Birmingham. Due to its bizarre shape and the fact that a footbridge comes out one side of the building to connect to a parking garage, I compared it to a sea pig with a tube up its rear end. This nickname stuck in the weirdest way however, with the "sea" in "sea pig" being left out, and the tube part being dropped as well. So now the Selfridges Building is known to two people as the "Pig Anus". Visiting Birmingham was great, but saying that nickname out loud in public must have confused passersby.
Nashville has both "R2D2" and "The Bat Cave" (despite being a tower), as well as the confusingly named Fifth Third Center. As for London, I guess "The Electric Razor" has too many syllables.
Londoners are so right ! Recently, I couldn't get over my suprise when I found out a boy and his family would call our frankfurter "Camembert" an other name. I had to ask !!!! : "How do you name it then" "the Radison Hotel". "Ah ok, sure, it makes sense :)"
Reminds me of the exchange in kuala lumpur where some people said it looks like male genital area, thus..... and also the fact that the podium in the rendition looks like balls from above.
I always use to call the Gherkin, the "Rocket Building" when I was little. Also for One Blackfriars, I've heard some nickname it the "Kim Kardashian building" due to its shape lol
In Adelaide, we actually have our own "Cheese Grater" building, but instead of being a giant wedge, it actually looks like it has giant grating holes on it.
Oh wow, I just had a look. That's a cheese grater if I ever saw one
There is a large black glass building in Wellington, New Zealand. It was the head quarters of the Bank of New Zealand. I remember people calling Darth Vaders Pencil Box. 1 Willis St, Wellington, NZ. I still call it BNZ tower, but it has been renamed perhaps two or three times.
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My Birmingham friend and I have a rather unique nickname for the Selfridges building in Birmingham. Due to its bizarre shape and the fact that a footbridge comes out one side of the building to connect to a parking garage, I compared it to a sea pig with a tube up its rear end. This nickname stuck in the weirdest way however, with the "sea" in "sea pig" being left out, and the tube part being dropped as well. So now the Selfridges Building is known to two people as the "Pig Anus". Visiting Birmingham was great, but saying that nickname out loud in public must have confused passersby.
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Nashville has both "R2D2" and "The Bat Cave" (despite being a tower), as well as the confusingly named Fifth Third Center. As for London, I guess "The Electric Razor" has too many syllables.
Londoners are so right !
Recently, I couldn't get over my suprise when I found out a boy and his family would call our frankfurter "Camembert" an other name.
I had to ask !!!! :
"How do you name it then"
"the Radison Hotel".
"Ah ok, sure, it makes sense :)"
Dublin and the naming of statues for a future video idea. The tart with the cart for a start
Oh no, is that what you call poor Molly Malone? I'm going to have to look into this...
Reminds me of the exchange in kuala lumpur where some people said it looks like male genital area, thus..... and also the fact that the podium in the rendition looks like balls from above.
“St Mary Axe” is pronounced “Simmery Axe” (or at least should be to reflect the ancient ward name after which it is derived)
I always use to call the Gherkin, the "Rocket Building" when I was little. Also for One Blackfriars, I've heard some nickname it the "Kim Kardashian building" due to its shape lol
The nicknames reflect British wit and humour :)