2012-07-05
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photo 22:27:54
Perhaps unsurprisingly, given their evidently shaky grasp of social media, the Shard’s inauguration website turns out to have difficulty grasping the concept of timezones.
2012-06-16
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video 02:25:40
Paul Raftery, architectural photographer, and Dan Lowe, director, have collaborated to create a timelapse film showing the final weeks of construction of The Shard tower in London Bridge, the tallest skyscraper in the United Kingdom.
It was shot over many long days during the early months of 2012, from locations spanning from Greenwich Park to Hampstead Heath.
Music by George McLeod.
I was sort of hoping for a time-lapse sequence of the entire construction, but this is nice anyway. Seen on the Guardian, in a feature on the building and an interview with Renzo Piano.
2012-01-03
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quote 20:15:05
“ The appearance of the building has created what Travers calls a “new mental geography” of the capital. For example the presence of the Shard makes suddenly obvious what every London taxi driver already knew: that the quickest way from Westminster to the City is via the South Bank. ”
Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at the LSE, quoted in Robert Booth’s good overview of London’s Shard: a ‘tower of power and riches’ looking down on poverty in The Guardian. (Also covered: its role as a “soft power” play by the Qataris.)
