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FAMOUS BUILDINGS

THE SHARD

If you ever come to London through the air, one of the first things you will notice is that a very tall building in the centre of the city, given its name implies looking like shard. London is not used to this kind of tall building.

But London particularly the centre has become one of the financial hotspot of Europe. Almost 3 million people travel to this tiny area every working day from surrounding counties as far as Southend and Bishops Stortford. Hence urgent need for office space arises. But where can you build when you can’t build sideways? You go up or you go down. This time they went up to the sky.

The building has 95 stories and has height of just over 0.3km, the building enclosed entirely made of glass, constitutes plenty of office spaces, restaurants as well as living spaces and a gallery. The very top floor is open to the public and anyone can visit there with a purchase of a ticket and get a spectacular bird’s-eye view of London.

When the building was in construction 60% of its space already been sold. It had a very high demand. To build such a massive project requires great investments and it had backers from as far as Qatar. The construction took only 3 years.

Even though such tall buildings were not allowed in its local land laws. Considering the need for space, an exception was given by the Land & Planning Commissioner, but only if the building does not become an eyesore (like most council towers in the city), it should be pleasing to look at, it should have an aesthetic and fits with its surroundings. In fact, it did. The building has become one of the iconic buildings of London. I think Land & Planning Commissioner was much more than delighted when the building was finalised.


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