Its A Tall As The Eiffel Tower & Being Built In London...

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Bing o said:

TotalControl said:

Wow. Very impressive. Missed this thread the first time but just read it.

Amazing, I'm impressed too. This is the tallest building in the world right?

Or is it just an average sized skyscraper like anywhere else?

For a short while it will be the tallest 'building' in Europe.

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More pics of the set-back:

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MiniMan64 said:

Are there anymore of these super sized buildings in the offing?

Re-read the opening post on this thread.

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It just went up by 2 floors in 2 days apparently!!!!

Stupendous (if true).

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shakotan said:

Hedders said:

shakotan said:

At 310 metres, it will be the joint 47th tallest building in the world, which it will share with the US Bank Tower in Los Angeles, the Menkara Telecom Building in Kuala Lumpar, the Ocean Heghts building in Dubai, and the Sky Tower in Abu Dubai.

For reference, it's 'only' about 5/8th the height of the Empire State Building.

Not so impressive when you put it into context

Exactly.

Although, it will be more than 50 metres taller than the current 'European Union' record holder, the Commerzbank building in Frankfurt, which is way down in 131st place.

It's already in context in as much as for London its very impressive - much like the Eiffel Tower is impressive in its Paris setting.

shakotan said:

I've been up the following tall towers;

CN Tower, Toronto
Sears Tower, Chicago
John Hancock Building, Chicago
IFC Tower 2, Hong Kong
Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai
Empire State Building, New York

I keep meaning to get up the Petronas Towers and Taipei 101, and of course the Burj Khalifa is at the top of my list now (pardon the pun).

Brilliant.

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anonymous said:

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I suspect the answer is yes although I've never seen the program.

Right...back to the crap little hut they're putting up in London...

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This is a simulated view from the Shard taken from the Shard's own website a few years back (apparently):



Click on the image above and then do the same again to the next image to get a slightly better resolution. Its a shame, because the full-size picture I uploaded to PH is VERY impressive but its now been automatically scaled-down by PH to fit on the page.

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The Astonishing progress continues...

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JxT said:

Shay HTFC said:

im said:

The Astonishing progress continues...

Wow. This one really hits home how tall it is now. The others are hard to put into context, but sheesh - I never knew it was already someway taller than the gherkin.

There's something odd about that picture (angle I assume). There isnt currently a marked difference.

The shard is nearer the camera...but not by much

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Bing o said:

Dr Imran T said:

I don't think the gherkin is 'that' high though. Is it even classed as a skyscraper?

Wiki suggests that anything over 500ft is a skyscraper - the Gherkin is 591ft.

Anything over 1,000 feet is a 'Supertall'...this is the UK's first Supertall.

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Its currently 183 metres tall - the 6th or 7th tallest building in the UK at the moment BUT is now the first building in the UK to have 50 floors!

More pics (I dunno, the lengths I go to for you chaps...)

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Hedders said:

youngsyr said:

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Its currently 183 metres tall - the 6th or 7th tallest building in the UK at the moment BUT is now the first building in the UK to have 50 floors!

How is that - I've stood on the fiftieth floor at One Canada Square!

Not to mention the fact that building currently only has 24 actual floors. All this 50 floors business is jumping the gun a tad!

TSk tsk...see the comment above

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youngsyr said:

im said:

Its currently 183 metres tall - the 6th or 7th tallest building in the UK at the moment BUT is now the first building in the UK to have 50 floors!

How is that - I've stood on the fiftieth floor at One Canada Square!

Sorry - should have inserted the words "MORE THAN" before "50 floors".

1 Canada square has exactly 50 IIRC.

Now stop being so pedantic!




ETA:...and before somebody says "how is the shard 54 floors and 1 canada sq 50 floors but the shard is currently not as tall as 1 canada sq"

....well, see if you can work it out.

Edited by im on Friday 24th September 17:13

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Shay HTFC said:

The Shard is built to accommodate dwarfs?

Rather 1 Canada Sq is built to accomodate giants.

'Other Information' 2nd paragraph down:

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/buildings.php?id=48

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Here, have another...

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Updated pics

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Markytop said:

im said:

Here, have another...

Not sure if it is the beer I've had this evening, but to me that pic looks like a giant dalek is attacking the city

Seriously though, I work on the Southbank, and have really noticed the scale of it now the glass is going on when walking over the Millenium bridge towards the Tate. Will be a spectacular once completed.

The speed of the construction is impressive as well. In January this thing was at ground level yet today is over 185m tall. I'm told that even from Primrose Hill etc this is starting to dominate the skyline.

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Cool video of the shard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3o4SgTcY2U&fea...

From 1m 37secs onwards you start to get a feel for the size of it...and its in day light (ignore the you tube title).

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More:

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sleep envy said:

love the way they've mounted a crane on top of the stack, very handy

Makes you wonder at what point the crane will have to be jettisoned - what with the building tappering inwards all the time.