The Shard - Europe's 4th Tallest Building at 309.7 Metres High - Photography (LONDON)

View from O'meara Street

It's big when you get up close. I can see it from my window and everywhere you go in London, it's there, day and night. Lit up and at Xmas like a tree. Whether you like it or not, it is different, cathedral like and pyramidal. When you stand underneath it you can go a bit dizzy as it looms ! It's certainly brightened up (or should I say cast a big shadow) over London Bridge.

View From the Other Side

What's interesting is that the building is obliquely viewed with a horizontal structure. In the top image. Iron lattice, in the bottom one wooden cladding

View from the Bottom

This is the view that makes you feel a bit dizzy as it looms over you about to fall on your head like a huge glass tree

The View from Tooley Street

With a big curve of glass in front of it, you could be forgiven for thinking it's an antenna of the other building. There's also a railaway line going across the middle which gives it a futuristic and truly metropolitan feel

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The Shard, also referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 95-storey skyscraper in Southwark, London, that forms part of the London Bridge Quarter development. Standing 309.7 metres (1,016 ft) high, the Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, the fourth-tallest building in Europe and the 111th-tallest building in the world.

It is also the second-tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, after the concrete tower at the Emley Moor transmitting station.

The Shard's construction began in March 2009; it was topped out on 30 March 2012 and inaugurated on 6 July 2012. Practical completion was achieved in November 2012. The tower's privately operated observation deck, The View from The Shard, was opened to the public on 1 February 2013. The glass-clad pyramidal tower has 72 habitable floors, with a viewing gallery and open-air observation deck on the 72nd floor, at a height of 244.3 metres (802 ft).

It was designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano and replaced Southwark Towers, a 24-storey office block built on the site in 1975. The Shard was developed by Sellar Property Group on behalf of LBQ Ltd and is jointly owned by Sellar Property (5%) and the State of Qatar (95%).

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