Its A Tall As The Eiffel Tower & Being Built In London...
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Have you guys seen this?
Shame I won't be in London next Thursday night - it looks good. Hopefully there'll be some media coverage:
http://londonist.com/2012/06/shardopens.php
Shame I won't be in London next Thursday night - it looks good. Hopefully there'll be some media coverage:
http://londonist.com/2012/06/shardopens.php
It was a window cleaner basket! I saw these tweets from the London Fire Brigade:
London Fire Brigade @LondonFire
We've been called to reports of a window cleaner in a precarious position on the 72nd floor of the #Shard. 10 firefighters at the scene.
London Fire Brigade @LondonFire
On site engineers at the #Shard have made the window cleaners' cradle safe & we can all now breath a sigh of relief.
Report:
http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/LatestIncidentsConta...
London Fire Brigade @LondonFire
We've been called to reports of a window cleaner in a precarious position on the 72nd floor of the #Shard. 10 firefighters at the scene.
London Fire Brigade @LondonFire
On site engineers at the #Shard have made the window cleaners' cradle safe & we can all now breath a sigh of relief.
Report:
http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/LatestIncidentsConta...
essayer said:
f
k. That.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-186812...
"an ambulance was on standby"
Hmm... I think this would be something of a waste of time from 72 floors up!
Edited by onyx39 on Tuesday 3rd July 01:55
Edited by onyx39 on Tuesday 3rd July 01:55
ijm said:
Looking at your previous attempts photos I'd suggest that even from that range you'd somehow manage to miss the Shard old chap...
Ha! Well, what about these? Taken last night while out on the tiles with Mrs Blib. And no, I didn't take her up the OXO tower last night. I'm saving that for our anniversary.
I think that you'll agree that they're up to my usual standard. And talking of standards.....
.....here's a comment piece from Richard Godwin in last night's Standard, entitled "The Shard - monument to the real rulers of London"
A little harsh, methinks.
Godwin said:
There will be a ceremony by the Thames tomorrow night.
All the gang will be there: the prime minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani; the governor of the central bank, Sheikh Abdullah bin Saoud al-Thani; the ambassador to the UK, Khalid Rashid Salem al-Homoudi al-Mansouri; plus a scattering of foreign dignitaries, including Prince Andrew and George Osborne.
The cream of Doha society is gathering to celebrate a magnificent new building. With 95 per cent Qatari funding, it represents a “major investment for the country”, according to the Gulf Times — much like Barclays Bank, in which the oil-rich desert state is a major shareholder, as well as most of Knightsbridge.
You have to turn to fiction to convey its true majesty, and George Orwell’s description of the Ministry of Truth from 1984 does the job better than any marketing bumf. The building is “an enormous pyramidal structure ...soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air”. Admittedly, The Shard does not have slogans such as “IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” and “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY” written on its gleaming carapace. However, at 309 metres, it is almost exactly the same height. It too is visible from almost everywhere in the city.
What’s more, with its “five-star plus” Shangri-La hotel, its £50 million apartments and financial floors, it is an equally potent monument to the powers that control London. The streets below will be insignificant from its pinnacle.
Tomorrow’s ceremony will be spectacular. Some 12 lasers and 30 searchlights will form a light show, beaming out onto 15 other monuments, including the London Eye and Tower Bridge. It must be tempting to set one of those lasers from “entertain” to “destroy” so the sheikhs can play Qatari roulette with London’s architecture. But to prove they have a sense of fun, they have instead enlisted the London Philharmonic Orchestra to serenade the structure with Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man.
For his part, the leader of Southwark council promises The Shard will provide the common man with 12,500 jobs and much needed infrastructure at a time of austerity. Its architect, Renzo Piano, hopes we will come to love it as Winston Smith, the hero of 1984, comes to love Big Brother.
Time will tell. For the moment my own thoughts about the 309-metre high Qatari investment are more in line with Winston’s in chapter one, when he regards the capital’s skyline from the roof of his squalid little home. “This, he thought with a sort of vague distaste — this was London, chief city of Airstrip One.”
All the gang will be there: the prime minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani; the governor of the central bank, Sheikh Abdullah bin Saoud al-Thani; the ambassador to the UK, Khalid Rashid Salem al-Homoudi al-Mansouri; plus a scattering of foreign dignitaries, including Prince Andrew and George Osborne.
The cream of Doha society is gathering to celebrate a magnificent new building. With 95 per cent Qatari funding, it represents a “major investment for the country”, according to the Gulf Times — much like Barclays Bank, in which the oil-rich desert state is a major shareholder, as well as most of Knightsbridge.
You have to turn to fiction to convey its true majesty, and George Orwell’s description of the Ministry of Truth from 1984 does the job better than any marketing bumf. The building is “an enormous pyramidal structure ...soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air”. Admittedly, The Shard does not have slogans such as “IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” and “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY” written on its gleaming carapace. However, at 309 metres, it is almost exactly the same height. It too is visible from almost everywhere in the city.
What’s more, with its “five-star plus” Shangri-La hotel, its £50 million apartments and financial floors, it is an equally potent monument to the powers that control London. The streets below will be insignificant from its pinnacle.
Tomorrow’s ceremony will be spectacular. Some 12 lasers and 30 searchlights will form a light show, beaming out onto 15 other monuments, including the London Eye and Tower Bridge. It must be tempting to set one of those lasers from “entertain” to “destroy” so the sheikhs can play Qatari roulette with London’s architecture. But to prove they have a sense of fun, they have instead enlisted the London Philharmonic Orchestra to serenade the structure with Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man.
For his part, the leader of Southwark council promises The Shard will provide the common man with 12,500 jobs and much needed infrastructure at a time of austerity. Its architect, Renzo Piano, hopes we will come to love it as Winston Smith, the hero of 1984, comes to love Big Brother.
Time will tell. For the moment my own thoughts about the 309-metre high Qatari investment are more in line with Winston’s in chapter one, when he regards the capital’s skyline from the roof of his squalid little home. “This, he thought with a sort of vague distaste — this was London, chief city of Airstrip One.”
I see they have announced the prices to go up to the viewing gallery, £25 for an edult and £19 for a child.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-187166...
The Empire State is $25 so I don't know why there is "anger" over the prices.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-187166...
The Empire State is $25 so I don't know why there is "anger" over the prices.
PeanutHead said:
I don't know why people think that I dislike the building. I don't. I've never said a word against it on this thread. I just like taking photos of it to show to im.
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I don't know why people think that I dislike the building. I don't. I've never said a word against it on this thread. I just like taking photos of it to show to im.AndrewW-G said:
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PeanutHead said:
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