Today's archidose #471
Here are a few photographs of The Shard rising in London, England by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Photos are by Manuel.A.69.
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John, thank you for reminding us The Shard is almost done!
ReplyDeleteI did an interview with a London philosopher about it just after looking at your post. Here is the start, and if you guys want to go on reading, the link.
I Vertically Met Her
A conversation about THE SHARD, London UK _Dr. Stephen Driver / Heike Haarmann
HH: Stephen, you are a philosopher living in London, thinking about human beings – how they interact, how they talk or feel – when you look at that Shard in progress: What can you imagine? It is a global destination, a transport hub, a vertical city, an entire social ecosystem, designed for posterity, conceived in seconds… one can spend years in there!
How do you imagine one switches from a business call to a drink, to a neighbour, to one’s daughter and into the spa in just an elevator ride? What happens in that one minute? Will this building generate a species that fast forwards into the next new scene of its day as many times as offered? Do you imagine life in The Shard as a fast cut movie?
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Please receive my congratulations! Great blog with great pictures! I'm not an architect, nor a photographer but I would like to invite you to visit my blog with photos of buildings and monuments in Buenos Aires.
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This brings back memories of watching Ian Simpson's Beetham tower rise up slowly but surely to dominate Manchester's skyline. I'm still not sure what I think about The Shard but who am I to judge, architecture as an economic statement is nearly as old as architecture itself.
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how it has grown!
ReplyDeleteI remember when a year ago the concrete core was in half and workers were involved in solding iron beames in the basement.