Modern Obelisk

The Shard of Glass blending in with the sky and Lambeth Bridge's obelisks.

 

Lambeth Bridge

Architect: Sir Reginald Blomfield and G. Topham Forrest

Engineer: Sir George Humphreys

Built by Dorman Long

The second bridge on this site, opening in 1932, this replaced a suspension bridge which opened in 1862.

 

The Shard

(aka Shard London Bridge, Shard of Glass, or the London Bridge Tower).

Architect: Renzo Piano

Developer: Sellar Property Group

Structural engineer: Turner & Townsend Main contractor: Mace

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