The award s jury praised the shard s unique glass fragment shaped form and its sophisticated architectural implementation resulting in a skyscraper that is recognized immediately and which is.
The shard floor plan.
The shard comprises 26 floors of high specification office space three floors of restaurants the 19 floor five star shangri la hotel 13 floors of residential apartments and london s highest public viewing gallery.
The shard also referred to as the shard of glass shard london bridge and formerly london bridge tower is a 95 storey skyscraper designed by the italian architect renzo piano in southwark london that forms part of the shard quarter development standing 309 6 metres 1 016 feet high the shard is the tallest building in the united kingdom and the sixth tallest building in europe.
More information can be found on the shard hotel page.
The first part in january 2011 saw the installation of hydraulic screens used to form the concrete floors of the hotel and apartment section of the tower and rose up to the 69th floor.
The core concrete floor 72 shard emerged in early 2011 standing at 245 meters.
Floors 1 3 lobby 4 28 office space 31 33 restaurants 34 50 shangri la hotel 52 spa 53 65 apartments 68 72 the view from the shard 75 87 spire.
On january 25 2011 the concrete pumps began to pour concrete in the floor of.
The floor plan of the shard is as follows.
Large floor plates at.
A mix of uses residential offices and retail creates a building that is in use 24 hours a day.
Also known as the shard the recently opened london bridge tower designed by renzo piano is the centrepiece of the redevelopment of the area around london bridge station one of london s key transport nodes whose trains busses and underground rail lines carry 200 thousand passengers a day.