The Shard Tower in London

[Brixton Hatter]

Got your text mate (cheers) but our view was crap. We went back to the sofa and watched 80's television.

Yeah sorry for getting your hopes up mate - it was a bit rubbish wasn't it!

 

[Brixton Hatter]

On the funny side, check out the 'Shards' Twitter account from last night onwards, pretty witty - https://twitter.com/#!/TheShardview

that's pretty good!

 

[Badgers]

Yeah sorry for getting your hopes up mate - it was a bit rubbish wasn't it!

If my hopes these days are so small they involve looking out my bedroom window I am fucked

 

[magneze]

It was an allegory for our modern times. Lots of people straining to see and yet only the "VIPs" at the top of the tower actually able to properly watch the "spectacular". Essentially class-war in laser form.

 

[Crispy]

The VIPs were actually on the other side of the river, at old billingsgate market

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The VIPs were actually on the other side of the river, at old billingsgate market

Smells fishy to me

Why weren't they in the building itself?

 

[Crispy]

Smells fishy to me

Why weren't they in the building itself?

Because it's nowhere near finished (on the inside)

 

[TitanSound]

Because it's nowhere near finished (on the inside)

Does anyone know what parts are actually finished, internally?

 

[teuchter]

Does anyone know what parts are actually finished, internally?

Yes

 

[TitanSound]

Yes

Polite version: Well share it with us, oh lord of information

Rude version: Information, now, CUNT

 

[teuchter]

I am not in possession of the information. I know that someone is though.

 

[TitanSound]

I am not in possession of the information. I know that someone is though.

 

[salem]

There was a good crowd of people on Parliament Hill, a couple of hundred at least I'd say. The disappointment was pretty strong in everyone - people had picnics and big cameras and all sorts. You could see the building change colour slightly (less noticeable then when the London Eye is lit up) and there was a small green dot towards the bottom of the building which blinked occasionally. It was really really poor and I'm glad that I only happened to be walking my dog that way at the time.

Highlight of the evening was someone who brought their own laser pen and was shining it on the trees

Twice this morning I've heard people on the train talking about how crap it was.

This along with the piss taking announcement that the public viewing platform will cost £25 to visit (before being shut due to lack of interest and turned into more flats) seems to have changed Londoners perception of the Shard.

Even the Telegraph has a story on their website The Shard – a giant middle finger directed by the super-rich at the rest of London

 

[teuchter]

Even the Telegraph has a story on their website The Shard – a giant middle finger directed by the super-rich at the rest of London

That's great because no other journalists or commentators have made this novel point repeatedly already.

 

[Orang Utan]

It's a recycled criticism. They said the same, with some justification, about Canary Wharf

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Because it's nowhere near finished (on the inside)

I knew that

I was joking with the "sounds fishy" but it obviously wasn't a joke appreciated

 

[teuchter]

I knew that

I was joking with the "sounds fishy" but it obviously wasn't a joke appreciated

In retrospect it was a great joke.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

In retrospect it was a great joke.

I'd already come to the conclusion that it flew above everyone's head like a flying fish

 

[elbows]

Shard Oh Nay.

Sorry about that one, send the bill for groan recovery to Qatar.

 

[elbows]

edit - decided this joke was too bad even by my standards so I have expunged it.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Anyway, does anyone know what this building is that's always got the dazzling light?

 

[elbows]

A tin foil hat store?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

A tin foil hat store?

Your jokes are getting worse elbows

 

[elbows]

No, its only my ability to resist posting them that is failing!

 

[Artaxerxes]

I think I must have been standing right next to you

The Shard Light show by cybertect, on Flickr

And I'm one of the people on the shoreline in that last photo

 

[ricbake]

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Anyway, does anyone know what this building is that's always got the dazzling light?

It's either one of the flood lights on the artificial pitch at Kennington Park or at the Oval Cricket Ground

 

[cybertect]

And I'm one of the people on the shoreline in that last photo

I seem to have been with quite a crowd of people I know online, but didn't know it.

Here's a triptych from last night - after the lasers had stopped


Shard RGB by cybertect, on Flickr

 

[ddraig]

ace
sell prints to the penthouse owners for £250,000 each

 

[cybertect]

I wish

Still, I'm doing OK with The Shard this month... Sold five photos to the Architectural Record mag in the US, one to Domus mag in Italy and a full pager to Architectural Digest in China (plus a couple of nin-Shard skyline shots for a book on London that's just been published).

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I wish

Still, I'm doing OK with The Shard this month... Sold five photos to the Architectural Record mag in the US, one to Domus mag in Italy and a full pager to Architectural Digest in China (plus a couple of nin-Shard skyline shots for a book on London that's just been published).

Nice one Cyber