Construction began last year on The Shard, London’s only skyscraper to
hit the 1,000-foot-tall mark. Proposed almost 20 years ago, it’s
something of a miracle that this ambitious mix of offices, hotel, and
apartments is rising at all, given the numerous political and economic
obstacles to building in London’s historic center. Numerous design
revisions by architect Renzo Piano have cost this 87-story pyramid of
overlapping glass planes a considerable degree of elegance. Get used to
it. Rising from London Bridge, a rail station on the south bank of
Thames River, it may dominate the skyline for decades.
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