LONDON - The visible from almost every corner of the city. But for now he is naked, incomplete and not yet fully grown. When it is finished, in 2012, will become the tallest building in London and across Europe: 310 meters, 87 floors, a cone of light, entirely covered with glass panels, which will shine on the biggest metropolis of the continent.
A project was an Italian architect, Renzo Piano, whose works adorn half the world, from the Pompidou museum in Paris to the new home of the New York Times in the Big Apple, winner of the Pritzker Prize, the Nobel of architecture, which now puts his also signed the top, so to speak, to the British capital.
An Italian on the roof of London confirms that, as far as saying Prime Minister David Cameron, multiculturalism is alive and well in this city that constantly changes its skin, mixing old and new, ancient and modern, classical and avant-garde. The Shard is no coincidence, the name of the new skyscraper (literally means "clay", "fragment") has made an agreement even Labour and Conservative, was a left-wing mayor, Ken Livingstone said "the Red" to authorize enthusiasm with its construction, is a right-wing mayor, Boris Johnson, to greet him now as "a clear and illuminating example of the confidence in the economy of London." Is the symbol of so much confidence, this new tower of London, that two major London newspapers, the Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph, have dedicated a whole page for each Saturday, without waiting for it to finish.
Inside there will be room for a five-star hotel, gourmet restaurants, offices for 7000 people, apartments for € 12 million each and also four floors (from 68th to 72nd) for the public wishing to pay him a visit. Not everyone, of course, welcome. Simon Jenkins, columnist and president of the Prince of the National Trust (the body which oversees the national property), calls him "a harpoon stuck in the historical heart of the capital and also a" fallen foul capitalist on earth from space "(it is unclear how it can fail to have a conical shape, ironically to the Telegraph, but perhaps in intergalactic space are like that).
And a true prince, the heir to the throne Prince Charles, a staunch defender of old-style planning, or the measure of man as he prefers to call it (without necessarily asking the man in the street if it is recognized), the liquid with contempt: "London already has a giant cucumber (the Gherkin, cucumber precisely, the nickname of another skyscraper criticized by His Highness, but quickly became an icon city, ed), now we're about to have a giant salt shaker, the Our city is becoming an absurd picnic table.
" Also on Telegraph comments that the Shard looks unusual for a salt shaker: perhaps that is also from the cosmos. But aside from the fact that dissent is - to stay in theme - the salt of London, every new addition to the skyline of London has generated controversy initially, to then be claimed with pride by (almost) all.
It happened with The Eye, the ferris wheel on the banks of the River Thames, the Millennium Dome, the covered amphitheater where there are concerts and tennis tournaments, with the cluster of skyscrapers at Canary Wharf, the new town affairs. The dominant view is that Renzo Piano's Shard simboleggerà the rebirth of London from the worst financial crisis in its history, changing once again, along with another half-dozen crystal towers currently under construction, the skyline of a city which today embodies the design, innovation and the future like no other in Europe. 
A project was an Italian architect, Renzo Piano, whose works adorn half the world, from the Pompidou museum in Paris to the new home of the New York Times in the Big Apple, winner of the Pritzker Prize, the Nobel of architecture, which now puts his also signed the top, so to speak, to the British capital.
An Italian on the roof of London confirms that, as far as saying Prime Minister David Cameron, multiculturalism is alive and well in this city that constantly changes its skin, mixing old and new, ancient and modern, classical and avant-garde. The Shard is no coincidence, the name of the new skyscraper (literally means "clay", "fragment") has made an agreement even Labour and Conservative, was a left-wing mayor, Ken Livingstone said "the Red" to authorize enthusiasm with its construction, is a right-wing mayor, Boris Johnson, to greet him now as "a clear and illuminating example of the confidence in the economy of London." Is the symbol of so much confidence, this new tower of London, that two major London newspapers, the Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph, have dedicated a whole page for each Saturday, without waiting for it to finish.
Inside there will be room for a five-star hotel, gourmet restaurants, offices for 7000 people, apartments for € 12 million each and also four floors (from 68th to 72nd) for the public wishing to pay him a visit. Not everyone, of course, welcome. Simon Jenkins, columnist and president of the Prince of the National Trust (the body which oversees the national property), calls him "a harpoon stuck in the historical heart of the capital and also a" fallen foul capitalist on earth from space "(it is unclear how it can fail to have a conical shape, ironically to the Telegraph, but perhaps in intergalactic space are like that).
And a true prince, the heir to the throne Prince Charles, a staunch defender of old-style planning, or the measure of man as he prefers to call it (without necessarily asking the man in the street if it is recognized), the liquid with contempt: "London already has a giant cucumber (the Gherkin, cucumber precisely, the nickname of another skyscraper criticized by His Highness, but quickly became an icon city, ed), now we're about to have a giant salt shaker, the Our city is becoming an absurd picnic table.
" Also on Telegraph comments that the Shard looks unusual for a salt shaker: perhaps that is also from the cosmos. But aside from the fact that dissent is - to stay in theme - the salt of London, every new addition to the skyline of London has generated controversy initially, to then be claimed with pride by (almost) all.
It happened with The Eye, the ferris wheel on the banks of the River Thames, the Millennium Dome, the covered amphitheater where there are concerts and tennis tournaments, with the cluster of skyscrapers at Canary Wharf, the new town affairs. The dominant view is that Renzo Piano's Shard simboleggerà the rebirth of London from the worst financial crisis in its history, changing once again, along with another half-dozen crystal towers currently under construction, the skyline of a city which today embodies the design, innovation and the future like no other in Europe.
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