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

[Muncher]

z4RRSchris said:

they are not for sale and wont be for sale.

What are they going to do with them?

[Anglade]

Muncher said:

z4RRSchris said:

they are not for sale and wont be for sale.

What are they going to do with them?

My understanding is that they are essentially being kept by the owners for their own private use / as a way to 'bank' the money.

[FourWheelDrift]

Part of the Qatari's escape plan and hideout scheme.

[Zad]

Yep. One of the best ways to make money right now is just to buy London square footage and wait...

[funkyrobot]

Chrisgr31 said:

funkyrobot said:

funkyrobot said:

Couple of pics taken a few weeks ago on my phone:

[img]http://thumbsnap. com/i/fSU7sAXy.jpg[/img]

I first posted this on here years ago. I'm finally seeing it from the View part tomorrow.

It's amazing how the area has changed with The Shard, The Place or whatever the Murdoch building is called, and the new London Bridge Station.

In fact incredible to see how it has changed since 1970, in that time the station has been rebuild twice and a tower block has been built where The Shard now is and demolished. https://twitter.com/NetworkRailLBG/status/73071507...

I was there in May and I thought about the picture I took and posted on here.

As you say, it's amazing how the whole are has changed. I was trying to place the old bits whilst stood at the foot of the Shard.

[scenario8]

I was passing on Friday so took a couple for Blib

[Blib]

Terrific effort. Unfortunately, all my efforts on this and other threads have had their links broken, due to Photobucket's actions.

[mickk]

Blib said:

Terrific effort. Unfortunately, all my efforts on this and other threads have had their links broken, due to Photobucket's actions.

Have no fear, the quality of the pictures means they'll be hanging in a private collection somewhere.

[Matt p]

dxg said:

Cold said:

The Gruniad is reporting that many apartments are still unsold. Worth a cheeky bid?

High living, low sales: Shard apartments still empty, five years on

From reading that article, they're happy to have sold none, lest they set a low price now as the benchmark. They're waiting for an upturn...

They are still under construction.

[Blib]

mickk said:

Blib said:

Terrific effort. Unfortunately, all my efforts on this and other threads have had their links broken, due to Photobucket's actions.

Have no fear, the quality of the pictures means they'll be hanging in a private collection somewhere.

[illmonkey]

Look at it in ALL of its glory


Bonus shots...

[King Herald]

illmonkey said:

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Yes, it is still an unfinished abomination, a blight on the landscape. I wonder how much cabbage changed hands to get the PP through for this thing.

[AmitG]

King Herald said:

Yes, it is still an unfinished abomination, a blight on the landscape. I wonder how much cabbage changed hands to get the PP through for this thing.

I agree. As I said before, I reckon it will be gone, or radically changed, within 25 years.

22 Bishopsgate is looking quite interesting. It's had a tortured past (I believe it used to be the Pinnacle Tower, aka the Helter Skelter, before a market crash and a redesign), but it looks like it's going up quickly now.

[dxg]

AmitG said:

King Herald said:

Yes, it is still an unfinished abomination, a blight on the landscape. I wonder how much cabbage changed hands to get the PP through for this thing.

I agree. As I said before, I reckon it will be gone, or radically changed, within 25 years.

22 Bishopsgate is looking quite interesting. It's had a tortured past (I believe it used to be the Pinnacle Tower, aka the Helter Skelter, before a market crash and a redesign), but it looks like it's going up quickly now.

When it was the helter skelter it at least had some design integrity. Now it's all three big blocks and all about maximised floorplates. Shame the number crunching turned it into that...

[dxg]

illmonkey said:

Look at it in ALL of its glory

But where is it? I just can't make it out...

[Puggit]

Quite amazing picture, of the first light of day bouncing off the Shard. Taken from the Air Traffic Control Tower at Heathrow:



Stolen from: https://twitter.com/Junipah/status/993700517896482...

[Puggit]

https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1098840102133...

View from the Shard:

[Vipers]

Blib said:

Terrific effort. Unfortunately, all my efforts on this and other threads have had their links broken, due to Photobucket's actions.

Tried Tinypics, used them since Photobucket got stroppy.

[Blib]

[Alex]

The view from the gents: