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- The architect conceived the tower as a huge
spire reminiscent of the London captured by
Canaletto. The tapering spire helps reduce
the profile making it smaller on the skyline
whilst the large bottom of the tower gives the
surrounding London streets a real landmark
of size.
- Piano originally planned a 380 metre tall
tower as a replacement for an earlier design
by Broadway Malyan. This height was
reduced after much consultation with the
planning authorities as it was considered
excessive.
- At ground level, every major use of the tower,
viewing galleries, residential, hotel and
offices, will each have separate entrances.
- Offices take up the bulk of the scheme,
53,585 square metres of space over 27
floors. Each floor will have naturally ventilated
winter gardens thanks to the double skinned
cladding and the controllable louvre windows.
- There will be a mid-level viewing piazza and
top quality restaurants 121.05 metres up.
- Shangri La will have a five star luxury hotel
occupying 18 floors.
- Residential space will be limited and take
up the tower from 186 metres to 224 metres
making it by far the highest residential
property in London, even if Beetham's
proposed tower is built. Some apartments
will take up a floor and cost in excess of £10
million.
- There will be an open public viewing gallery,
the tallest of any building in Europe, at 243.8
metres up the tower that is expected to
recieve 2 million visitors a year. This will be
the highest occupiable floor in the
development.
- The top floors of the building are a massive
radiator designed to expel the heat generated
by it naturally.
- The nickname, the "Shard of Glass", was
originally coined by English Heritage who
tried to use it as an insult suggesting it was
stabbing the heart of historic London.
Ironically it has stuck and is now used by the
developer in marketing.
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If your company has been involved with the Design/Build, Supply or Maintenance of this building please submit your details. - Agent
- Savills
CB Richard Ellis - Architect
- Renzo Piano Building Workshop
- Concrete Frame Contractor
- Byrne Brothers
- Cost Consultant
- Turner & Townsend
- Developer
- Sellar Property Group
LBQ Ltd - Lift Supplier
- KONE
- Main Contractor
- Mace
- Masterplanning Architect
- Renzo Piano Building Workshop
- Planning Consultant
- The London Planning Practice
- Quantity Surveyor
- Davis Langdon LLP
- Services Engineer
- Arup Group
- Structural Engineer
- WSP Group
- Visualisation Firm
- Hayes Davidson
 Reference Data
- Reference No.
- 46
- First Uploaded
- 19-02-2006
- Last Editorial Date
- 07-12-2016
- Planning Application Number
- 00TP/3-28(0100476)
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