First attempts

But I didn't what the model to get confusing or have a large polycount since I just started, so i decided that the cylinder would represent the big diamonds and I would have splines for the frames and these images represent me working through this. Furthermore I thought this would be the best route if i wanted it to be detailed and have not have a large polycount.

As you can see the only way I could get the diamonds was by putting to cylinders inside themselves with one being mirrored.

What I gathered was that, the gherkin has 10 upward big diamonds and it goes around 20 times. Also the gherkin has 41 floors and is 180 metres high. So in this image, I am trying to incorporate all that information into a cylinder in 3ds max which is to the real world scale of the gherkin whislt using the taper and twist modifer.