The Shard Tower in London
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Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
at the picnic with a view t'other day we were talking about how it was already beginning to impose itself on th skyline - and it's only halfway there. I am seriously grooving to THe Shard now. But then - what do I know? I like the Gherkin.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
I was just about to mention that - from Dawson's Hill it looks like the Shard, Tower 42, Heron Tower are all the same height, and the Gherkin slightly lower.
Crispy
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Agreed. It's a skyscraper without a single external vertical line or plane. Such a cohesive form
Rubbish floorplans though
No wonder it's half empty (or however empty it is)
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
oh wow! GHerkin fans! COMRADES! I SALUTE YOU! VIVA GHERKIN!
Gromit
International Man of Misery
The gherkin looks fab from the outside. The more I see it the more i stop and think, cool design.
But there is more to being a good building than looking cool. Lets hope the shard gets that bit right.
Can't believe that its going to be double the height that it is now.
But there is more to being a good building than looking cool. Lets hope the shard gets that bit right.
Can't believe that its going to be double the height that it is now.
Crispy
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It won't be double the height (the halfway point was reached a week or 2 ago)
It's at about 185m now, and will be 310m to the tip when complete.
The recent rapid pace of the core will pause shortly to allow the steel to catch up again, then there's the final stepback to add the last 100m of core, which will look very tall and spindly.
It's at about 185m now, and will be 310m to the tip when complete.
The recent rapid pace of the core will pause shortly to allow the steel to catch up again, then there's the final stepback to add the last 100m of core, which will look very tall and spindly.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
The Gherkin is lame. There, I said it.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
tbf, the London comercial property market has taken a bit of a battering over the past coupla years
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
I like that Jeff Randall show they do from the Gherkin on sky news.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
I get a big buzz out of Dunster Court
Crazed 1980s Gothic, a little bit of Gotham.....they should have a lazer Bat Signal overhead
Isn't that the Insurance Underwriters building? Yeah, mental shapes.
editor
hiraethified
It's leapt up in just a couple of weeks!
More pics: http://www.urban75.org/blog/the-london-shard-reaches-for-the-sky-photos/
More pics: http://www.urban75.org/blog/the-london-shard-reaches-for-the-sky-photos/
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
It really has. Is it simplistic to think that it's quicker to finish each level because it's slimmer? 
Crispy
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The steelwork does get faster with each floor, yes.
The concrete core can rise very fast indeed - a floor a day now, but they don't do it all at once.
When the steelwork gets to level 34 (level with the middle crane in ed's photo), they will swap over to concrete floors for the hotel. This will be slower to build than the steel floors below.
The concrete core can rise very fast indeed - a floor a day now, but they don't do it all at once.
When the steelwork gets to level 34 (level with the middle crane in ed's photo), they will swap over to concrete floors for the hotel. This will be slower to build than the steel floors below.
cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
FWIW, the building's called Minster Court, not Dunster Court, which is a street it's on.
One of my most hated London buildings of the 1980s. It makes me shudder every time I see it
Though the same firm of architects (Gollins Melvin Ward) were, in 1969, responsible for the St Helens building (AKA the Commercial Union Building) and 122 Leadenhall Street for P&O (recently demolished from the bottom up) which are/were two classy Miesian towers.
One of my most hated too. When I look at the skyline from the South Bank, it really jars.
I think I have a hate for modern interpretations of classic styles. There was a phase of dreadful 80s/90s neo Greek stuff. It spread like a disease, where you'd find twiddly roof lines topping off generic Thames Valley business parks. Horrible.
I think I have a hate for modern interpretations of classic styles. There was a phase of dreadful 80s/90s neo Greek stuff. It spread like a disease, where you'd find twiddly roof lines topping off generic Thames Valley business parks. Horrible.
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
From Brixton Hill it's starting to look like some terrible panopitcon , saruman's evil tower casting it's eye across the city.
hipipol
Peckham Wry
FWIW, the building's called Minster Court, not Dunster Court, which is a street it's on.
One of my most hated London buildings of the 1980s. It makes me shudder every time I see it
Though the same firm of architects (Gollins Melvin Ward) were, in 1969, responsible for the St Helens building (AKA the Commercial Union Building) and 122 Leadenhall Street for P&O (recently demolished from the bottom up) which are/were two classy Miesian towers.
Oops - I used to work in the building it replaced - sure that was called Dunster House, so I suppose I have always simply conflated the names......Je Suis un Grand Arse!!!!
blossie33
trailer trash
While I was waiting in a queue to see inside a building on Open House weekend a guy in front was saying to one of his friends that he wondered why they hadn't opened the Shard for viewing - er, right?!! A little matter of health and safety regs on a building site I imagine, to say the least!
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
um, so do I
Crispy
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The gate is over the entrance to the alley that the building backs onto. The alley is called Dunster Court, the building is called Minster Court
editor
hiraethified
Can you ask him to take some pics that we can post up here?Pal of mine is about to start a stint of nights as a crane operator on the Shard.
I'll pass on any questions to him, if you like
