The Shard - London Bridge Tower

The Shard - London Bridge Tower

The London Bridge Tower is a building that grows in height, in which different functions coexist: private apartments, public floors, shops, restaurants, offices and a hotel. It's a vertical city where 8.000 people work and live. The building resembles an elongated pyramid that stands out against the sky and vanishes through the clouds. Eight sloping glass facades, the “shards” define the shape and visual quality of the tower, fragmenting the scale of the building and reflecting the light in unpredictable ways.

Project data

Design

2000-2008

Construction

2009-2012

Site area

126.712 m2

Height

309.6 m 

Floors

87 

Credits

Client

Sellar Property Group

Architect

Renzo Piano Building Workshop

in collaboration with Adamson Associates (Toronto, Londra)

 

Consultants

Phase One (Planning Application), 2000-2003

Arup (structure and services); Lerch, Bates & Associates (vertical transportation); Broadway Malyan (consulting architect)

Phase Two, 2004-2012

WSP Cantor Seinuk (structure); Arup (building services); Lerch, Bates & Associates (vertical transportation); Davis Langdon (cost consultant); Townshend Architects (landscape); Pascall+Watson (executive architect for the station)