The Shard, London Skyscraper, Architect, Building, Images, Design, Pictures, Height
The Shard Skyscraper
London Bridge Tower: Key Tall Building in England, UK – design by Renzo Piano architect
3 Oct 2007
images : Hays Davidson and John Mclean
London Bridge Tower – The Shard
Design: Renzo Piano, architect with Ove Arup & Partners
The Shard Design
images : Hays Davidson and John Mclean
The Shard – London Skyscraper
306m / 1016 ft high – 66 storeys (orig. 80 storeys)
For comparison Canary Wharf tower is 235m / 771ft high
projected completion 2009
Developer: Sellar Property Group
London Shard architects : Renzo Piano Building Workshop
The Shard Controversy
Supported by Mayor Ken Livingstone who apparently intends Transport for London to take office space in the Shard of Glass, but attacked by others for its height, style and impeding certain views.
images : Michel Denancè
The Shard & London Skyscrapers
“On my estimate 20 towers each more than 300ft high are planned, or proposed, to rise within half a mile of the Thames in inner London, with another 20 situated at random further back. Towers will be visible from every open space and down every street…and at Bermondsey the 1,000ft “glass shard”, taller even than the highest structure at Canary Wharf…There has been no public debate or consultation on any of this.
There is no vision or declared ideal of how new and old should marry in the future city. It will just happen because no authority has the guts to set individual developments in any wider context…These are not communities but urban fortresses, worse than anything inflicted on London in the 60s or 70s.” Simon Jenkins in the Guardian 28 Sep 2007
The Shard : image by RPBW
UNESCO in their report into the Tower of London apparently suggested the Shard of Glass and Bishopsgate Tower be cancelled
The Shard design : Renzo Piano
Location: London Bridge Station, South London, England, UK
London Buildings
Contemporary London Architecture
London Architecture Links – chronological list
London Architecture Walking Tours by e-architect
The Shard London – main page on this British skyscraper building design
picture from developer
The Shard tower – construction photos
Key London Skyscraper Designs
1 Undershaft Tower
Design: Eric Parry Architects
image : DBOX, courtesy Eric Parry Architects
1 Undershaft Tower City of London
The Scalpel
Design: Kohn Pederson Fox – KPF
image courtesy of the architects
The Scalpel City of London Skyscraper
Swiss Re Building – 30 St Mary Axe
Foster + Partners
20 Blackfriars, Southwark
Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Tower 42 – former Nat West Tower
Architect: Richard Seifert – R. Seifert & Partners
London office tower
183m high, 47 floors – tallest building in London until 1 Canada Square in 1990
London skyscraper architect : Richard Seifert
Key London Building by Renzo Piano
Comments / photos for The Shard London Skyscraper page welcome
London Bridge Tower – The Shard – website : the-shard.com