‘The Gherkin’

The iconic City office tower is now high-rise housing. Originally converted into luxury flats, the block soon slid down the social scale to become a high-density, multi-occupation tower block. The Gherkin now worries the authorities as a potential slum.

People displaced by the effects of climate change have moved north to escape the heat and in search of food. They make their homes in the buildings that once drove world finance - before the collapse of the global economy.