The Shard is beginning to grow on David Mentiply (warning: this post may contain sci-fi references).
I’ve never seen the Thames tide quite as low as on Friday last week.
It was slightly unnerving so I decided to take refuge in Tate Modern. This picture was taken from the terrace of the members’ room.
I wrote about the Shard early last year for the now defunct Greensen. Not the most positive of reviews. However, I have to say that the shard is beginning to grow on me. On clear days, it’s a sight to behold. The trouble is clear days are few and far between in London. And I still find it difficult to get beyond this comment left by Madam Miaow: ‘The Shard-enfreude looks eerily like the Tyrell Corporation building in Blade Runner.’
Let’s just hope the future occupants of the Shard aren’t in the business of ‘manufacturing’. Else the next Mayor might have to hire a squad of Blade Runners to prevent replicants from taking over our great city.
Out of interest we posted these pics last week of the window cleaners half-way up the Shard. That job is not for the feint-hearted.
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There are some great views in London and many of them, like the Shard, can be seen from pretty much anywhere :)
Personally I’m an unashamed modernist and love glass and steel. So for me the Shard and the Gherkin speak to a new and better London – let’s hope it’s not all smoke and mirrors.
You mean post-modernist, surely?
I’m pretty sure new stuff is usually termed modern :)
Post-modern that’s, like, the future!
A future of frilly buildings with bells on? Hope not :)