The View from the Shard
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I went up a couple of weeks back. A few shots below....
Great pics everyone. I nearly went up recently but since this view of the Shard was like this I thought I'd hold off till better weather so as not to just see cloud.
Carol M said:Concrete Jungle. Cool pics.
I remember when the Tower and St Pauls etc used to dominate London's skyline
That's one of the things about Rome I love, no skyscrapers whatsoever. You can climb up, look out and see no high rise buildings.
Yeah but Rome Isn't Italy's Finical city, Milan is.
Remember more than 60% of Central London and the ‘City’ district where damaged of flattened during WW2. Buildings where replaced with ugly 1950’s concrete eyesores because it was cheap and functional, and the Shard is replacing one of these buildings built for function with no consideration of the landscapes look or future. I am totally for buildings like the Shard and the Pinnacle that have been designed with architecture and art in mind as well as function.
I love London's modern diversity of old and new. The prime example of this is ever morning I would walk down Leadenhall Street from Liverpool Street Station to work. On the onside you have the Famous Lloyds Building, Opposite that is the Gherkin, but beside them is a tiny Saxon Church that dates back over 1000 years, and along the road is Leadenhall Market which is a AMAZING Victorian roofed market. If anyone is every visiting London just take 5min to walk down Leadenhall Street, its only a couple of hundred yards long but itll fascinate you.
Leadenhall Street
Lloyds Building
The Gherkin
Leadenhall Market
the Pinnacle
Cracking pics. Edd your second pic looks like it was taken from an aircraft, can't believe how high The Shard is 
ESP - I don't know whether you feel the same, but I never think the Shard looks that high when I'm stood at the bottom looking up at it, but when you look from the top down it certainly does!!
By the seaside...
I commute in/out of London Bridge station (at the base of The Shard) so I've watched virtually every step of the construction and, in the original plans, The Shard was going to be even higher at 380m
That would have been really spectacular but the planners thought it was excessive and made them reduce it to 308m - as I understand it, this is why the sides of The Shard have the 'kinks' in them where they angle inwards more sharply as it allowed the architects to keep the majority of the original design but still reduce the height
That would have been really spectacular but the planners thought it was excessive and made them reduce it to 308m - as I understand it, this is why the sides of The Shard have the 'kinks' in them where they angle inwards more sharply as it allowed the architects to keep the majority of the original design but still reduce the height
ESP said:
Reading that made me very proud of my city
agree with the stuff about the amazing architectural diversity we have here. I was a student in the East End once upon a time and have lived in the St Pauls area as well as London Bridge in recent years and watched the construction of the Shard and wandered around Leadenhall market, really great place. Despite the weather it really is in my opinion one of the best cities in the world.RubyBlueZ4MC said:ESP said:
Cheer's
I live outside London in Hertford, but worked off Cannon Street (near monument) for 3 years and in the west end before that. I loved it, always felt like a tourist walking past amazing places. I love going back into town for a day or night out, do it atleast once a month.
Reading that made me very proud of my city