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The view over London towards the Shard in the blue hour.
The Shard was designed in 2000 by Renzo Piano, an Italian architect previously best known for creating Paris’s Pompidou Centre in collaboration with Britain’s Richard Rogers. That year, the London-based entrepreneur Irvine Sellar decided to redevelop Southwark Towers, a 1970s office block next to London Bridge station, and flew to Berlin in March 2000 to meet Piano for lunch. According to Sellar, the architect spoke of his contempt for tall buildings during the meal, before flipping over the restaurant’s menu and sketching an iceberg-like sculpture emerging from the River Thames. He was inspired by the railway lines next to the site, the London spires depicted by the 18th-century Venetian painter Canaletto, and the masts of sailing ships.
Every evening after dusk the Shard has been lit a different colour on every quarter of an hour. Caught this from the other side of London Bridge.
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Broken wine bottle.
Image shows about 1.6 cm wide edge of dangerously sharp broken edge.
I love the way the conchoidal fractures show up so well.
Samyang 85mm f1/1.4 with extension tubes and flash.
Quite a dangerous project, but no blood spilled yet - still to tidy up. No wine was wasted here.
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The view of the Shard from Vauxhall as it is sorunded by the city.
London provides so much inspiration for the architectural photographer. This image of the Shard is from my long-term Dark Matter project
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A close up view of the Shard In London. Not much else to say.
London - River Thames from Victoria Embankment. The Shard was designed by Renzo Piano and completed in 2012.
London Borough of Southwark, South London, England - River Thames,
February 2025
After yet another shower had passed by the sky lit the Shard up like a beacon, taken from the Millennium Bridge
The Shard, also referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower,
is a 95-storey skyscraper in Southwark, London, that forms part of the London Bridge Quarter development. Standing 309.7 metres (1,016 ft) high, the Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, the fourth-tallest building in Europe and the 111th-tallest building in the world. It is also the second-tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, after the concrete tower at the Emley Moor transmitting station.
The Shard's construction began in March 2009; it was topped out on 30 March 2012 and inaugurated on 6 July 2012.
Practical completion was achieved in November 2012.
The tower's privately operated observation deck, The View from The Shard, was opened to the public on 1 February 2013.
The glass-clad pyramidal tower has 72 habitable floors, with a viewing gallery and open-air observation deck on the 72nd floor, at a height of 244.3 metres (802 ft). It was designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano and replaced Southwark Towers, a 24-storey office block built on the site in 1975.
The Shard was developed by Sellar Property Group on behalf of LBQ Ltd and is jointly owned by Sellar Property and the State of Qatar.
Seen here shortly before completion and viewed from 1 New Change
The Walkie Talkie building and The Shard communicating through reflective light over the River Thames.
The Shard is 309m tall skyscraper. It is the tallest building in the UK and the European Union.
Дъ Шард е небостъргач висок над 309 метра, най-висока сграда във Великобритания.
Continuing a run of London City Scenes on Flickr. Its no secret the Shard is my favourite building in the city, but I think it looks even more special when the lights come on.
Completed last year the Shard now dominates the London Skyline. I can see it from my neighbourhood 9 miles away. It costs £25 to get to the observation tower. I've not been up there yet. One day soon.
This was taken from the public platform on the north side of the Thames which overlooks the brightly lit, London bridge.
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I had few photos taken throughout the week, so it took some time to think which one gets to be the chosen one for my project. I decided with this, because even if it's not the most aesthetically pleasant one, it's the most emotional and tells its own story. At least for me, when I know why I'm doing it and how I got the ideas. When I'll look back on the project (if I ever finish it), I'll want to see how my weeks went, not some.. nice things I could take whenever.
I had a pretty rough week. Things come and go, I'm glad I have people to talk to. Though sometimes time spent alone is the best healing time.
Have a nice Sunday!
This is "The Shard" tallest building in London a magnificent structure taken from Tower Bridge.
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Busy week, but managed a quick stop at The Shard during my commute. Thought I would try an in-camera multiple-exposure (something I have never done before) inspired by the great Mr McGarry
Late evening shot of the Shard with fog starting to form around the top; lights from the busy office workers; and a ray of light illuminated the elevation
I braved the very cold wind yesterday to shoot the Shard Christmas lights. Earlier I had been getting frozen on Waterloo bridge but I moved to those sheltered spot just by Hanseatic Walk to get this viewpoint.
Enjoyed the flood lit colours of Southwark Bridge with the Shard as a back-drop, River Thames flattened by the 25 second long exposure at f/9.0, ISO 100, focal len 58mm. Sadly the Millennium Bridge and St Paul's were not lit up - guess just doing it at weekends now? A judge might say three objects good , better than 4 but in this case I did not want to chop off the bridge supports from either end so left them in the composition.
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The view of the Shard in the Blue hour as a bus passes by under on of the lamps on London Bridge.
The Shard, seen from the southern end of London Bridge.
In the foreground is the Southwark Gateway Needle, a tilted stone needle which was erected in 1999. It points towards the spot where the medieval London Bridge crossed the River Thames.
It is symbolic of the location's history, being close to where the heads of traitors were impaled on long wooden spears. At one point in the late 16th Century, up to 30 heads would have been on display - having been parboiled and coated in pitch to ensure their longevity. An official Keeper of the Heads also tended to them - a duty which must've had a very specific and unique job description.