The Shard Tower in London

[Orang Utan]

 

[bi0boy]

So what needs doing up the top now? Is that half-finished look actually what it will look like when it's finished?

 

[TitanSound]

So what needs doing up the top now? Is that half-finished look actually what it will look like when it's finished?

Precisely!

 

[Crispy]

So what needs doing up the top now? Is that half-finished look actually what it will look like when it's finished?

Yes, that's the intended look. Not a perfect pyramid, but separate shards.

 

[bi0boy]

Yes, that's the intended look. Not a perfect pyramid, but separate shards.

I know that, but there's all that steel or concrete at the top - are they going to remove that and just leave the glass there, a bit like this?

 

[Crispy]

Nope

 

[Crispy]

That area was originally designed to house heat rejection radiators for the building's cooling system. Increased efficiencies in air-con design in the intervening time meant that the equipment could be done without. It's not a great look, I agree. If they'd re-designed the spire without the radiators it might have looked a bit better.

 

[RoyReed]

Here's one I took yesterday.

 

[eoin_k]

Is it just me or does this photo:

Less zoomed in:

Bring out a certain biblical aspect to the whole project?

 

[ska invita]

Is it just me or does this photo:


Bring out a certain biblical aspect to the whole project?

reminds me more of

 

[RoyReed]

I love the cradle that just comes straight out of the side of the building:

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Where's that taken from OU?

 

[Orang Utan]

Telegraph Hill in New Cross/Brockley.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Telegraph Hill in New Cross/Brockley.

Nice to see it from a different vantage point

 

[Orang Utan]

I've just seen it from Nunhead Reservoir. Amazing 360 degree panorama but everything's too far away for a decent picture.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I've just seen it from Nunhead Reservoir. Amazing 360 degree panorama but everything's too far away for a decent picture.

what about taking a normal one and zooming in and cropping it? That's what I've done to my ones on here

 

[Orang Utan]

the first pic up there is a zoom and it looks too grainy. Cropping's too much of a faff on a phone (ie i can't be arsed)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'm beginning to think I don't like the colour of the glass on The Shard. Doesn't really stand out on grey days so hard to get decent pictures (that's my excuse!) although it is quite nice and shiny in your picture OU

 

[Orang Utan]

I like the way it shines differently in different lights. Sometimes it's dead white.
I wish I'd taken a pic from its base the other day when it just disappeared into a white misty sky

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I like the way it shines differently in different lights. Sometimes it's dead white.
I wish I'd taken a pic from its base the other day when it just disappeared into a white misty sky

Always seems to be the same colour/shade from where I am, unlike other buildings that get the sun on them. The Gherkin often catches the light and other glass-fronted buildings often get lovely sunset reflections on them, but The Shard doesn't seem to get either from the direction I view it

 

[Maggot]

You should try looking at it from different places.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You should try looking at it from different places.

It's nice and warm and comfortable from this particular position

 

[Orang Utan]

Yeah, you need to view it from as many angles - it's different each and every time

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yeah, you need to view it from as many angles - it's different each and every time

When it's warm enough to sit outside I will. Until then... I'm staying put

 

[TitanSound]

Good article here. You can see interior shots on the "video"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18438604

 

[teuchter]

Good article here. You can see interior shots on the "video"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18438604

That article reads a bit like someone wrote it for their school project.

 

[TitanSound]

That article reads a bit like someone wrote it for their school project.

Why don't you write a strongly worded letter to the BBC forthwith then?

Down with this sort of thing etc etc...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Another shot, tried this in Manual mode but sharpened and added contrast and saturation



hm, don't think I like that. Maybe better without the sharpening effects?

 

[mwgdrwg]

This was taken by my daughter on her school trip to London this week