The Shard Tower in London

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Good pics in tonight's paper:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/...-bolt-together-spire-at-985-feet-7583316.html

Fuck me, Cyber's pictures are better than that, and that's saying something, considering how good mine and teuchter's are!

Only joking, but seriously, Cyber's are better

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The scene recalls the 1932 photograph by Charles C Ebbets, which shows workmen eating lunch on the 69th floor of the GE Building during construction of the Rockefeller Center in New York.

er, no it doesn't, at all

 

[cybertect]

Fuck me, Cyber's pictures are better than that, and that's saying something, considering how good mine and teuchter's are!

Only joking, but seriously, Cyber's are better

Thanks Minne. The Standard wanted to use one of my pics of The Shard a few weeks ago, but had 'no budget' for photography...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Thanks Minne. The Standard wanted to use one of my pics of The Shard a few weeks ago, but had 'no budget' for photography...

Ah, you mean the bastards wanted it for free eh and you told 'em to shovel it?

 

[cybertect]

Your words speak eloquently

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Your words speak eloquently

I like to fink I was bought up proper like

 

[laptop]

Thanks Minne. The Standard wanted to use one of my pics of The Shard a few weeks ago, but had 'no budget' for photography...

Bollocks they didn't. They were just schnorring. They can and do pay £200 for a single photo (quarter-page-ish).

 

[teuchter]

Thanks Minne. The Standard wanted to use one of my pics of The Shard a few weeks ago, but had 'no budget' for photography...

Did you tell them that unfortunately you did not offer any services targetted at that price point?

 

[quimcunx]

I think it's going to look perpetually unfinished at the top.

I was just going to say that every time I go past I think it looks like they've got a bit stuck with the top so are just getting on with other things in the hope the problem goes away.

 

[T & P]

In a weird way it doesn't look *that* tall from a distance. Not in the same way as the ICC in Hong Kong, or the Empire State Building in NY dominate their environments. That's probably not a bad thing I guess...

 

[Marc Fairhurst]

 

[skyscraper101]

^^ that's a very nice photo

 

[spliff]

Fuck. It makes me feel a bit ill.

Nice headgear. Where did those lunch-boxes end up I wonder?

 

[TitanSound]

Fuck. It makes me feel a bit ill.

Nice headgear. Where did those lunch-boxes end up I wonder?

As someone at street levels headgear.

*thump*

 

[quimcunx]

The building next to it is called 'The Place', also designed by Renzo Piano.

London Bridge Quarter is the the tag for the whole development: The Shard, The Place and the revamped London Bridge Station.

http://www.londonbridgequarter.com/

There is an advert at Old St. with I <3 Dalston on it for Queensbridgequarter.com! Where will it all end?!?!?!?!?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Fuck. It makes me feel a bit ill.

Nice headgear. Where did those lunch-boxes end up I wonder?

Why are you posting pictures of America up?

 

[spliff]

Why are you posting pictures of America up?

It was a reference to your earlier post to point out how right you were.

The scene recalls the 1932 photograph by Charles C Ebbets, which shows workmen eating lunch on the 69th floor of the GE Building during construction of the Rockefeller Center in New York.

er, no it doesn't, at all

That picture by Marc Fairhurst #941 is fabby.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It was a reference to your earlier post to point out how right you were.

Oh

Fucking ridiculous comparing the two innit?

 

[Crispy]

The shard is topped out! Chest over at skyscrapercity got this fantastic sequence of photos of the event

the construction chest


.

 

[teuchter]

Looks like the "shard" behind that one is going to be higher though

 

[Crispy]

yes I think you're right

 

[cybertect]

Yet another example of discrimination against south London.

Looks like the "shard" behind that one is going to be higher though

South side FTW

 

[mao]

Looks like the "shard" behind that one is going to be higher though

 

[Who Nose]

In a weird way it doesn't look *that* tall from a distance. Not in the same way as the ICC in Hong Kong, or the Empire State Building in NY dominate their environments. That's probably not a bad thing I guess...

Funny enough, I had breakfast at Paramount at Centrepoint this morning and looking across at it my first thought was 'I thought it would be bigger'

 

[quimcunx]

It's a thought I've had often over the years.

*checks what forum we're in*

 

[teuchter]

I really hope the engineers have done their wind load calculations properly on those top pointy bits of glass.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The shard is topped out! Chest over at skyscrapercity got this fantastic sequence of photos of the event

Nice pics

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'd have a look at it through m binoculars to see the top but yet again, it's very hazy out there

 

[skyscraper101]

By 'eck that look precarious. Rather them than me.

 

[skyscraper101]

So... who wants to place a bet on how long it'll be before that mad frenchman starts to climb it?