The Shard Tower in London

[kyser_soze]

Just as a quick update for Shard fans, it's actually happening; the demolition guys are de-welding and de-constructing the old PWC building (saw them sawing down the atrium and the 1st and 2nd floor sun shade things) and there's a huge, quite wonderful, grey board about the size of a 96 sheet poster site in front of where Boots used to be.

Hope it's finished before I leave the UK cos I'd love to go up to the observation deck...

 

[Belushi]

Howe long are they estimating it will take to build?

 

[Crispy]

Oh bums, I was always under the impression that fuck-ugly one on the left was coming down too Ah well. Shard ftw

 

[Crispy]

Howe long are they estimating it will take to build?

finished in 2011

 

[Belushi]

Oh bums, I was always under the impression that fuck-ugly one on the left was coming down too

That things a fucking monstrosity.

 

[kyser_soze]

You mean Guy's Hospital? Yeah, but if it weren't in grey concrete it'd be cooler - mad shape

 

[Crispy]

Ah, I had no idea it was part of the hospital
Yeah, the shape is pretty space age, but the materials really don't help.

 

[g force]

Wonder if it will encounter the same problems as the Cheesegrater and the Pinnacle "Helter Skelter" during construction?

 

[Crispy]

What problems are those?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Hmmm not sure what I think of it...that said didn't like the London Eye much upon first glance but now it's one my favourite features of London.

 

[kyser_soze]

Wonder if it will encounter the same problems as the Cheesegrater and the Pinnacle "Helter Skelter" during construction?

Since they haven't finished prep and clearance work, what are these?

 

[ChrisFilter]

Shard FTW

 

[g force]

Well a bank has taken out an injunction, succesfully, to limit nosie and vibration that, if broken, leaves the developer of the Cheesgreater - British Land - open to paying compensation of £100,000 a day.

Hiscox @ 1 Great St Helen's (across from the church) are in the process of getting work halted on the Pinnacle, next door, as massive cracks have appeared in their walls.

It's all getting a bit messy with injunctions etc and could delay the site being cleared let alone drining in foundations for a 80 floor tower

 

[zenie]

Ah, I had no idea it was part of the hospital
Yeah, the shape is pretty space age, but the materials really don't help.

Tallest hospital in the UK innit?

 

[Crispy]

The preliminary designs for the new London Bridge are looking quite spiffy.

Big Ground Floor concourse with the trains running through overhead on suspended bridges.

 

[kyser_soze]

It's all getting a bit messy with injunctions etc and could delay the site being cleared let alone drining in foundations for a 80 floor tower

Have you seen the site? Work is continuing apace - they're using the 'demolish from the ground up' approach on a couple of the buildings which looks and there's always activity going on when I've been past the last few weeks...

 

[Crispy]

Demolition 'from the ground up' is just because they were built in the oposite direction - the floors 'hang' from the central core.

 

[Brainaddict]

Well a bank has taken out an injunction, succesfully, to limit nosie and vibration that, if broken, leaves the developer of the Cheesgreater - British Land - open to paying compensation of £100,000 a day.

Somehow this tale of a clash of two of the most rapacious types of capitalist institutions - banks and property developers - fails to incite any sympathy in me at all. In fact it's pretty entertaining stuff

 

[Belushi]

Demolition 'from the ground up' is just because they were built in the oposite direction - the floors 'hang' from the central core.

It looks way cool though

 

[g force]

Demolition 'from the ground up' is just because they were built in the oposite direction - the floors 'hang' from the central core.

Yep and the core is staying in the new building. The best thing about the old P&O site is the public atrium at ground level...although I'm not sure how far it encrouches onto the 'plinth' in front of the Aviva tower.

 

[kyser_soze]

The Aviva tower is the old Barclays Building isn't it? The weird ass thing with the hemispherical lid that was designed by some Yank arch-PoMo practice and BB hated it from the time they moved in didn't they?

 

[tommers]

You mean Guy's Hospital? Yeah, but if it weren't in grey concrete it'd be cooler - mad shape

is that the york clinic? wow, I didn't realise that was where this would be. it's really close...

 

[g force]

The Aviva tower is the old Barclays Building isn't it? The weird ass thing with the hemispherical lid that was designed by some Yank arch-PoMo practice and BB hated it from the time they moved in didn't they?

The black tower over the road from the Gherkin. It's my home from home

 

[kyser_soze]

Ahh, not the one I was thinking of. But I know the building of which you speak

 

[ChrisFilter]

The preliminary designs for the new London Bridge are looking quite spiffy.

Big Ground Floor concourse with the trains running through overhead on suspended bridges.

All well and good, but when are they going to make London Bridge acceptably accessible!? It's unusable when you're working in Farringdon or anywhere not on the Northern or Jubilee lines. Might be a problem without a solution though.

 

[Crispy]

Nothing but new tube lines would fix that for you!

(if you time it right, you can get thameslink from Lbridge to Farringdon)

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Demolition 'from the ground up' is just because they were built in the oposite direction - the floors 'hang' from the central core.

canterlever innit??

 

[Crispy]

canterlever innit??

Not afaik - there's a sort of 'coathanger' at the top, then tension members down the outside.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Nothing but new tube lines would fix that for you!

(if you time it right, you can get thameslink from Lbridge to Farringdon)

Those trains don't start until 9:17am... what the fuck is the point in that?!

Doesn't matter anyway, just meant that when we were looking for houses any areas that were only on the London Bridge <> Victoria line were out of the question.

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Not afaik - there's a sort of 'coathanger' at the top, then tension members down the outside.

down the outside

god we had balls in the 60's