Tag archive for Shard
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Your Building is Too Small, Mr. Piano
When Le Corbusier arrived in Manhattan, he remarked that the buildings were too small. This was not to say that they were not tall enough but that they were not wide enough; referencing his
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Building Futures Think Pieces: Tall Buildings
Are tall buildings the answer to population growth? Earlier this year Renzo Piano’s Shard was finally unveiled as the latest tall building to appear on London’s skyline. It has since attracted a mixed response; it’s
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Building big in London: Mies van der Rohe and Renzo Piano
Watch a filmed conversation between the RIBA President Angela Brady and Renzo Piano. Last week in front an audience at the RIBA, architect Renzo Piano was interviewed by Razia Iqbal for the BBC World Service (listen to the
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Shard London Bridge – latest pictures
Over the past year on RIBA Blogs, the British Architectural Library has published posts on the Shard London Bridge. Using material from the Library, some have looked at the history of the site of
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Before the Shard
In 1830 artist Joseph Gandy imagined John Soane’s Bank of England in the City of London as a ruin like those of ancient Rome. Less than a hundred years later his drawing was to take a prophetic
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Shard London Bridge – latest pictures
Undoubtedly the Shard, once it opens next year, will have an impact on the street life, transport and urban fabric of the London Bridge area – for the rest of London is has become
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Shard London Bridge – latest pictures
With today’s post we have recent views of the Shard from Borough High Street and Southwark Bridge. The photographs show the difference in scale between the Shard and the buildings nearby, and the visual impact
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Shard London Bridge – latest picture
A photograph of the Shard taken yesterday (from a distance). The view is from Farringdon Lane, looking
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Shard London Bridge – latest picture
The Shard London Bridge is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, when it opens in 2012 it will the tallest building in the European
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