The Shard Tower in London

[Mapped]

I love the fact that he's done a Phd on all this stuff

 

[Mapped]

So was it Shard and Fraud? (not my shitty pun!)

http://paulclarke.com/photography/blog/shard-and-fraud/

Someone went up there, but the time seems to be under dispute from this entry, maybe there was some slightly laxer security back then.

 

[butchersapron]

The comment might have the answer.

 

[Mapped]

The comment might have the answer.

Cheers! Didn't look down that far

 

[Badgers]

A group of trespassers managed to break into the Shard - western Europe's tallest building - and scale the pinnacle, it has emerged.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17656669

Anyone coming clean?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17656669

Anyone coming clean?

Have you looked at the last few posts Badgers?

 

[Badgers]

Have you looked at the last few posts Badgers?

Have a guess

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Have a guess

erm....

 

[Mapped]

www.placehacking.co.uk might need a new server

I wanted to go on there as my Mum's cousin wants to know what happened to Gary

 

[laptop]

Panorama from the top: http://www.silentuk.com/panoramas/shard.html

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Great skyline a little while ago with rain clouds and the Shard looking like it was just about to get a heavy dumping of rain

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Blue skies again

 

[ddraig]

it's started channeling already!!!
RUN minnie! RUN!!!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

it's started channeling already!!!
RUN minnie! RUN!!!

I thought it looked more like it was being beamed up

 

[cybertect]

Great skyline a little while ago with rain clouds and the Shard looking like it was just about to get a heavy dumping of rain

Fab!

Fortunately, it had passed by by the time I left the office.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I looked at The Shard through my binoculars today. Is there a bit at the top that's not completed yet? It looks like it, but hard to tell?

You should come to me for weather reports so you don't get caught out

My b/f used to ring me up from Brixton when I worked in Victoria to tell me rain was heading my way and sure enough it would hit a couple of minutes later

 

[stuff_it]

Some pics of the Shard, recently...from the inside....

http://www.placehacking.co.uk/2012/04/07/climbing-shard-glass/

 

[teuchter]

I was taking pictures of the same storm that Minnie was...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I was taking pictures of the same storm that Minnie was...

Where were you taking them from teuchter?

I think it would be great to have some thread (be it here or SSC) of it from all different places in London, so people can see the skyline from all different angles and show how confusing the bendy River Thames makes things

 

[teuchter]

From Loughborough Junction.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The gherkin looks in a completely different position than in my picture and the wind turbine building in Elephant looks much further away

 

[teuchter]

The gherkin looks in a completely different position than in my picture and the wind turbine building in Elephant looks much further away

Yes - now you know what they look like in the correct positions. Sorry about your view being substandard.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yes - now you know what they look like in the correct positions. Sorry about your view being substandard.

Mine is the correct view. I am viewing head on. You're sideways

 

[cybertect]

Recent developments...

A derrick crane has been installed on the SW corner, which will be used to dismantle the tower crane.

the hoarding at Gate 1 on the corner of St Thomas Street and Joiner Street has been removed (there are some more canopies yet to be installed over here)

Nice light this morning

 

[Mapped]

Does anyone know who owned the freehold before the Quataris? TfL? Network Rail?

 

[ddraig]

outstanding pics again
thanks

 

[cybertect]

Does anyone know who owned the freehold before the Quataris? TfL? Network Rail?

The qataris bought their stake(s) in the scheme from CLS Holdings and Simon Halabi.

 

[Mapped]

The qataris bought their stake(s) in the scheme from CLS Holdings and Simon Halabi.

Thanks, but before then? The thing's on top of London Bridge Station, it's got to have been public land before that deal. I've tried searching the planning docs and drew a blank.

 

[cybertect]

PriceWaterhouseCooper were in the Southwark Towers building that occupied the site. AFAIK, they'd been tenants there since it was built in 1976.

Sellar bought that building from Railtrack in 1998

http://www.estatesgazette.com/talkingproperty/wikis/london/the-shard-london-bridge.aspx

News of plans to create a striking landmark on the site of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Southwark Towers headquarters first emerged in early 2000, two years after Sellar’s Sellar Property had paid Railtrack £37.4m for the building, a 6.93% yield.

 

[Mapped]

Ta!