{"id":4014,"date":"2011-04-07T14:16:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T13:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=4014"},"modified":"2011-04-07T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T13:22:17","slug":"the-shard-london-bridge-nears-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-shard-london-bridge-nears-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shard, London Bridge, nears completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-01.jpg\" alt=\"The Shard, London Bridge, nears completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Work continues apace on The Shard tower at London Bridge, which will be the tallest building in the European Union when completed next year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-02.jpg\" alt=\"The Shard, London Bridge, nears completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also set to be the 45th tallest building in the world, the 1,017\u00a0ft (310\u00a0m) Shard will be the second tallest free-standing structure in the UK after the 1,084\u00a0ft (330.4m) Emley Moor transmitting station.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-03.jpg\" alt=\"The Shard, London Bridge, nears completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When completed, the tower will contain 72 floors, plus 15 further radiator floors in the roof, and be clad entirely in glass.<\/p>\n<p>The viewing gallery and open-air observation deck &#8211; and yes, I really want to get up there sharpish! &#8211; will be on the top (72nd) floor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-04.jpg\" alt=\"The Shard, London Bridge, nears completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shard_London_Bridge\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>, by March 2011, pouring of the concrete floors had reached level 50 and progression on the towers cladding had reached level 38.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-05.jpg\" alt=\"The Shard, London Bridge, nears completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-06.jpg\" alt=\"The Shard, London Bridge, nears completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-07.jpg\" alt=\"The Shard, London Bridge, nears completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-08.jpg\" alt=\"The Shard, London Bridge, nears completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-09.jpg\" alt=\"The Shard, London Bridge, nears completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-10.jpg\" alt=\"The Shard, London Bridge, nears completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-11.jpg\" alt=\"The Shard, London Bridge, nears completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-12.jpg\" alt=\"The Shard, London Bridge, nears completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-13.jpg\" alt=\"The Shard, London Bridge, nears completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-14.jpg\" alt=\"The Shard, London Bridge, nears completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.net\/vbulletin\/threads\/239329-The-Shard-starts...\" target=\"_blank\">Discuss the Shard on our bulletin boards! (Over 660 posts so far!)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work continues apace on The Shard tower at London Bridge, which will be the tallest building in the European Union when completed next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7013,"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_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-4014","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\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-12K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014","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=4014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}