{"id":2709,"date":"2010-11-16T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2010-11-16T21:44:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T21:44:06","slug":"the-london-shard-at-london-bridge-london-se1-continues-to-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-london-shard-at-london-bridge-london-se1-continues-to-soars\/","title":{"rendered":"The London Shard at London Bridge, London SE1 continues to soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/the-london-shard-rises-37.jpg\" alt=\"The London Shard at London Bridge, London SE1 shoots up...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now reaching the start of the viewing gallery and open air observation deck at floors 64-72 is the Shard tower at London Bridge, which can already claim to be the tallest structure in London.<\/p>\n<p>I took some photos back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-shard-rises-iconic-london-skyscraper-underway\/\">mid-September 201<\/a>0 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-london-shard-reaches-for-the-sky-photos\/\">later that same month<\/a>, but you can see that it&#8217;s still growing upwards at an\u00a0astonishing\u00a0rate.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/the-london-shard-rises-23.jpg\" alt=\"The London Shard at London Bridge, London SE1 shoots up...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Old and new. The central core of the Shard as seen from Borough High Street, SE1.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/the-london-shard-rises-24.jpg\" alt=\"The London Shard at London Bridge, London SE1 shoots up...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When completed, the Shard will stand 310\u00a0m (1,017 ft)\u00a0\u00a0tall and comprise of \u00a072 floors, plus 15 further radiator floors in the roof.<\/p>\n<p>Designed ten years ago by Renzo Piano &#8211; the Italian architect who created Paris\u2019s Pompidou Centre of modern art with Britain\u2019s Richard Rogers &#8211; the Shard will become the tallest building in the European Union\u00a0\u00a0(at least for a while)\u00a0when completed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/the-london-shard-rises-25.jpg\" alt=\"The London Shard at London Bridge, London SE1 shoots up...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The main contractor for the project is Mace who were reported as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.building.co.uk\/news\/mace%E2%80%99s-price-for-building-shard-rises-by-about-%C2%A385m\/3125239.article\" target=\"_blank\">blowing their original \u00a3350m budget by about \u00a385m<\/a> back in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/the-london-shard-rises-26.jpg\" alt=\"The London Shard at London Bridge, London SE1 shoots up...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What goes where<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the floors will be used in the tower:<\/p>\n<p>Level 1-3:\tLobby<br \/>\nFloors 4-28: Of\ufb01ce space<br \/>\nFloors 31-33: Restaurants and viewing gallery<br \/>\nFloors 31-50:Shangri-La Hotel<br \/>\nFloors 52: Spa<br \/>\nFloors 53-65: Residential apartments<br \/>\nFloors 64-72: Viewing gallery and open air observation deck<br \/>\nFloors 75-87: Spire<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shard_London_Bridge\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/the-london-shard-rises-27.jpg\" alt=\"The London Shard at London Bridge, London SE1 shoots up...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The grey grimness of Guys Hospital next to the Shard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/the-london-shard-rises-28.jpg\" alt=\"The London Shard at London Bridge, London SE1 shoots up...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The base of the Shard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/the-london-shard-rises-29.jpg\" alt=\"The London Shard at London Bridge, London SE1 shoots up...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/the-london-shard-rises-30.jpg\" alt=\"The London Shard shoots up...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Raising the steel beams.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/the-london-shard-rises-31.jpg\" alt=\"The London Shard at London Bridge, London SE1 shoots up...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking up from the footbridge next to Guy&#8217;s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/the-london-shard-rises-32.jpg\" alt=\"The London Shard at London Bridge, London SE1 shoots up...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/the-london-shard-rises-33.jpg\" alt=\"The London Shard at London Bridge, London SE1 shoots up...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/the-london-shard-rises-34.jpg\" alt=\"The London Shard at London Bridge, London SE1 shoots up...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking at the tower from near London Bridge. I&#8217;s going to make one hell of a landmark when completed!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/the-london-shard-rises-35.jpg\" alt=\"The London Shard at London Bridge, London SE1 shoots up...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/the-london-shard-rises-36.jpg\" alt=\"The London Shard at London Bridge, London SE1 shoots up...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The central concrete core, with the floors marked off as far as number 62.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shardlondonbridge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Official website<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now reaching the start of the viewing gallery and open air observation deck at floors 64-72 is the Shard tower at London Bridge, which can already claim to be the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[199,359,358],"class_list":["post-2709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-architecture","tag-london-bridge","tag-shard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/the-london-shard-rises-37.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-HH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2737,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions\/2737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}