The building has an unorthodox, bulbous shape, purportedly intended to reduce its surface area and thus amend energy efficiency, albeit the excess energy consumption caused by the exclusive utilization of glass (in a double facade) inundates the benefit of shape. Despite claiming the building "demonstrates the potential for a sustainable, virtually non-polluting public building energy use quantifications have shown this building to be fairly inefficient in terms of energy use (375 kWh/m2/yr), with a 2012 Exhibit Energy Performance Certificate rating of "D".[8] It has been compared variously to Darth Vader's helmet, a misshapen egg, a woodlouse and a motorcycle helmet. Former mayor Ken Livingstone referred to it as a "glass testicle while the present mayor, Boris Johnson, has referred to it as "The Glass Gonad"[11] and more politely,
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The ramp walkway provides views of the interior of the building, and is intended to symbolise transparency; a homogeneous contrivance was utilized by Foster in his design for the reconstituted Reichstag (parliament) in Germany. However, this is not in utilize as a public facility, nor for internal communication by staff because it is more expeditious to utilize the hoists. This takes up a disproportionate area of the building compared to modern standards so that the entire structure is very inefficinet occupancey ratio to volume the voids do not constitute public/ general congregating areas, with little efficacious utilizable space because of it. At the top of the ten-storey building is an exhibition and meeting space called "London's Living Room", with an open viewing deck, balcony, which is infrequently open to the public.
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