{"id":4449,"date":"2011-06-03T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=4449"},"modified":"2011-06-09T02:19:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T01:19:36","slug":"london-shard-tower-keeps-climbing-to-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/london-shard-tower-keeps-climbing-to-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"London Shard tower keeps climbing to the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-15.jpg\" alt=\"London Shard tower reaches completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping my beady eye on the ride of what will be Europe&#8217;s tallest skyscraper, although my view from Brixton is rather limited: I can only see the top of the thing!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it looks as of the 3rd June 2011, with the floors slowly rising up to meet the top of the central core.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-16.jpg\" alt=\"London Shard tower reaches completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an overall view looking north from\u00a0Brixton. To the left of the Shard is the distinctive outline of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/london-razor-skyscraper-packs-wind-turbines-bladerunner-style\/\">Strata tower<\/a> with its three built in turbines (I&#8217;ve yet to see them move, by the way).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-17.jpg\" alt=\"London Shard tower reaches completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shard from the top of the Monument.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-18.jpg\" alt=\"London Shard tower reaches completion\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View from London Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the Shard &#8211; and see lots of photos of it under\u00a0construction\u00a0&#8211; by clicking on the\u00a0links\u00a0below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping my beady eye on the ride of what will be Europe&#8217;s tallest skyscraper, although my view from Brixton is rather limited: I can only see the top &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7097,"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":[194,17,193],"tags":[199,10],"class_list":["post-4449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-architecture","tag-london"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/shard-london-bridge-april-2011-15.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-19L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449","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=4449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4478,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions\/4478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}