Designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, the 72-storey tower has several twisting glass facets on its exterior, and inside, will have offices, apartments, restaurants and a 15-storey observation gallery.
It looks amazingly sci-fi, but every time I hear the word “shard”, I can’t help but think of Dark Crystal. [Shard London Bridge via Core 77]
Aaron Browning
Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 9:55 AMThe top looks like the Citadel
Jeff
Saturday, August 29, 2009 at 10:12 PMThe shard…sounds a bit too much like Fable 2 to me…
mitchel rodwell
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 11:22 AMWTF! Is this a joke? The shard is the name of the large glass skyscraper in Mirror’s Edge that served as the Authoritarian governments surveillance center. It looks nearly exactly the same.
Nodeity
Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 10:44 AMI think it’s a bit of a let down, considering the 15 stories of so called “Observation Gallery” Then again it will look “pretty” in amongst all the fog, or is that smog!! :}