LONDON | London Bridge Tower - "The Shard" | 1,017 FT / 310 M | 87 FLOORS - Page 17

Aleks · #**321** Posted **Jul 30, 2010, 5:03 AM**

sweet pictures chest!

you can really appreciate the glass and quality of the building from those angles. london always manages to get better and better!

colemonkee · #**322** Posted **Jul 30, 2010, 5:42 AM**

Love that first shot with the two guys turning around to look up at the tower. Great moment.

SkyscrapersOfNewYork · #**323** Posted **Aug 4, 2010, 4:46 AM**

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images...Shard_pic2.jpg

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images...Shard_pic5.jpg

peanut gallery · #**324** Posted **Aug 4, 2010, 5:19 AM**

This is going to be one sweet looking building.

chest · #**325** Posted **Aug 8, 2010, 5:50 PM**

from Tower Bridge
Core currently at floor 38 and steel work at around level 23

kenratboy · #**326** Posted **Aug 9, 2010, 12:55 AM**

Are they going to reduce the core size soon?

andydie · #**327** Posted **Aug 9, 2010, 12:50 PM**

I visited London the past days and visited the site of the Shard construction on the 5th of August. Here are my pictures:

andydie · #**328** Posted **Aug 9, 2010, 12:51 PM**

and part 2:

Its really an awesome project and a great addtion to the London skyline

djvandrake · #**329** Posted **Aug 9, 2010, 6:58 PM**

Wow. The more of the cladding they put on the more the brilliance of the design is evident. This is going to be one of the finest towers on the planet. Fantastic.

andydie · #**330** Posted **Aug 10, 2010, 4:23 PM**

Besides the above Pictures i also took some video footage of the construction:

• Video Link

• Video Link

Enjoy

hartss · #**331** Posted **Aug 11, 2010, 4:21 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by djvandrake

Wow. The more of the cladding they put on the more the brilliance of the design is evident. This is going to be one of the finest towers on the planet. Fantastic.

I will be in London in three weeks - cannot wait to see this beauty in person.

Innsertnamehere · #**332** Posted **Aug 11, 2010, 5:27 PM**

looks like the secondary core is finished..

wjfox2004 · #**333** Posted **Aug 11, 2010, 7:15 PM**

wjfox2004 · #**334** Posted **Aug 11, 2010, 9:32 PM**

A quick video I made this evening -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4dmSdrZRKM

wrab · #**335** Posted **Aug 12, 2010, 2:28 AM**

Beautiful glass!

Ehrgeiz91 · #**336** Posted **Aug 13, 2010, 8:12 AM**

My God that glass doesn't even look real. So reflective! All I can think of is the Bank of America Tower in NYC and how hideously grey its glass was, IMO. This cladding is beautiful.

Aleks · #**337** Posted **Aug 13, 2010, 8:22 AM**

i love the red tubes running horizontally. i never expected any form of red to show up on this tower!

Troubadour · #**338** Posted **Aug 14, 2010, 5:42 AM**

I've never been the biggest fan of acute pyramidal architecture. Still, I'm finding some things to like in the Shard, even though it doesn't seem very English. They really need to discover their own style - weird, dildo-esque architecture like that egg-looking thing isn't the way to go, and the Shard doesn't seem very likely to inspire subsequent elaboration in other projects. But the Shard will make an interesting addition to the skyline. In fact, one could say that the Shard is basically creating the London skyline.

Fabb · #**339** Posted **Aug 14, 2010, 7:12 AM**

The Shard from London Bridge, last Wednesday :

Nightsky · #**340** Posted **Aug 14, 2010, 10:15 PM**

I haven't followed it for a while, and I am surprised it has went so far now, it took so long just before construction begun.