The Shard Tower in London
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
IT'S GONNA BE ANOTHER YEAR TIL IT'S FINISHED? WTF?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
I thought that exact same thing this morning. Surely that's been a meme for a while? Can't imagine it's taken everyone else as long as me to notice it?
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Externally, it'll be complete by summer. Internal fitout and services installation is always much more time-consuming and labour-intensive.
cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
The idea has been mentioned before, on this very thread even (though also elsewhere)
http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/the-shard-starts.167117/page-9#post-5620866
Might also be worth mentioning that Peter Jackson's first LoTR film was released in 2001, a year after the first drawings for The Shard were made. Skyscrapers can take a long time to get built.
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
Is that supposed to be a goatse?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
No. It's Sauron.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I still like teuchter's mirror ball with lasers idea on this thread.
I tried to persuade the project architect at RPBW to take it up, but he wasn't sure Sellar would go for it.
Which way would the lasers be pointing?
teuchter
je suis teuchter
19sixtysix
Bring me sunshine
One word that explains this is lifts.
Everything in the building has go up in the lifts. I can imagine it will take hours for each workman to get their stuff up in a lift and require the lift to be booked.
T & P
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cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
Photys from the last couple of days...
The North side is very mucky still
but they've cleaned a lot of the West side
the canopies are cool
the boom arm for the Building Maintenance Unit (for cleaning, etc.) at the top of The Shard was lifted this lunch time
and I snapped this on my way to catch my train at London Bridge this evening
The Shard: Plane lucky by cybertect, on Flickr
The North side is very mucky still
but they've cleaned a lot of the West side
the canopies are cool
the boom arm for the Building Maintenance Unit (for cleaning, etc.) at the top of The Shard was lifted this lunch time
and I snapped this on my way to catch my train at London Bridge this evening
The Shard: Plane lucky by cybertect, on Flickr
cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
Did this David Hockney-style 'joiner' last night too. Assembled from 35 individual frames.
The Shard & The Place joiner, March 2012 by cybertect, on Flickr
The Shard & The Place joiner, March 2012 by cybertect, on Flickr
TitanSound
Mr Beardy Drummer
I was in Camino's courtyard in Kings Cross having a pint yesterday and I saw a plane flying against the moon, and I wished I had a decent camera. I wonder if it was the same plane? 
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I like the moon one 
mao
I'm totally wired
Wow that joiner ones nuts, waiting for the tube at old st after work tonight I saw a giant lonely planet ad of park st , borough market and the shard in that style. Lots of the photos were taken at different times.of day (and at slightly skewiff angles), really epic stared at it for bout 8mins staight. Never seen these kinds of montage of photos before, or that i'm aware off. Really good idea for photographs of cities imo
Photys from the last couple of days...
Aaaahhh... now that, I think, explains what I saw on Wednesday.
A rather curious piece was on a flatbed truck parked in the 'staging lane' on St Thomas Street.
I had time to kill so I tracked it, going into the yard, being unloaded, rigged, and finally lifted into position. (From leaving the staging lane, it took about 1h 45 to prep and make it to the top.
)Basically what I think I saw was the bit that the arm mounts onto. It had 'pins' that would be about the right size for the 'holes' in the arm in your photo. I was telling Crispy about it in the pub on Wednesday night. It's all thought out brilliantly. All the lifting points are there, each painted bright pink, so the riggers can get it right with the minimum of fuss. Strapped onto it was a man cage that will be for the end of the arm in your photo. It was as if the cage had, in part, been designed to strapped on like this, just to simplify the lift. A cross brace between the cage pair was perfectly sized to nestle into the pins.
So, anyway, there's an idea for your photo project. Track a piece from ground to spire, with time stamps.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I don't like the red bits.
Yeah, it's the first time I've noticed them and I don't like them either. I'd have gone for a bronze colour or silver colour but I'm not an architect
cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
Not exactly, no. Cybertect will
I have a vague recollection that it was Erith/Bexleyheath way. The published information was fairly vague.
TitanSound
Mr Beardy Drummer
I regulary see trucks parked up along St Thomas' street on Sunday evenings when leaving the studio we rehearse in to go home. Mainly with the windows in the past few weeks. Obviously the drivers sleep in the trucks and then tip the next morning. Beats battling a Monday rush hour though London in a 44 tonne truck that's for sure.
