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  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,962
    On a good day you can see the Shard from the top of Dartford bridge, gives you something to look at when you are stuck in the queue for the tolls.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,653
    For anyone who likes architecture the cable car supports are now up and the cable across the river at the O2.
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,001
    That is one scary looking building. Just needs an all seeing eye floating above the point.
    Kind of like it though.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,763
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  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,307
    For anyone who likes architecture the cable car supports are now up and the cable across the river at the O2.
    You can see this walking down from Charlton Village to the ground, not sure how necessary it is though, surely you can get a tube to Canning Town then the DLR to the ExCel?
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,233
    http://www.the-shard.com/inauguration/

    A laser show from the Shard tomorrow night. Imagine you will see it from a far and wide.
  • Shame such a prestigious building was built with cheap labour
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    Shame such a prestigious building was built with cheap labour
    And they used a cheap fire alarm company.............bastards :-)
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,109
    Shame such a prestigious building was built with cheap labour
    And they used a cheap fire alarm company.............bastards :-)
    and cable pullers.

  • smiffyboy
    smiffyboy Posts: 4,314
    http://www.the-shard.com/inauguration/

    A laser show from the Shard tomorrow night. Imagine you will see it from a far and wide.
    There was all lasers coming off of it last night


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  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,875
    What is wrong with cheap legal labour ?
  • Because it makes a mockery of the industry and training that skilled tradesmen have to go through. Local company as well, CHS Electrical from Chistlehurst
  • cafc999
    cafc999 Posts: 4,968
    Because it makes a mockery of the industry and training that skilled tradesmen have to go through. Local company as well, CHS Electrical from Chistlehurst
    Here here!
  • delroofer
    delroofer Posts: 857
    And they deliberately designed it so there was hardly any roofing work!
  • BDL
    BDL Posts: 6,001
    I want to know when we can expect The Eye of Sauron to turn up?
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    25 quid just to take the lift up?
    Are they serious - I just want to look out, not pay for a floor.
  • They have parking for 46 cars apparently. I think if I were spending £50m on my place I'd want a free cone to put out thrown in.
  • £25 to go to the viewing gallary. Seems a bit step if you have a family of four or five.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,109
    25 quid just to take the lift up?
    Are they serious - I just want to look out, not pay for a floor.
    ???

  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,233
    So I walked up to the top of Occupation Lane, like many others last night, it was packed up there and up on Shooters Hill and what a load of cack that was!!

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  • I was at London Bridge and you couldn't move. It was a complete showere of sh*te !! Went back into the wine bar for a glass of sauvignon blanc.
  • EastStand
    EastStand Posts: 4,109
    I could've seen it from my window but I forgot to look.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,813
    Seems to have been done for the journalists and TV cameras located at the Tower of London
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,233
    I could've seen it from my window but I forgot to look.
    What area is your window?
  • EastStand
    EastStand Posts: 4,109
    edited July 2012
    I could've seen it from my window but I forgot to look.
    What area is your window?
    Bricklayers Arms. So a 15 minute walk from London Bridge.
  • MattD
    MattD Posts: 1,530
    I want to know when we can expect The Eye of Sauron to turn up?
    image
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,233
    You live in a pub? Impressive.
  • EastStand
    EastStand Posts: 4,109
    You live in a pub? Impressive.
    I bloody wish. Its just the name of the area, a fancy way of saying "near that big roundabout where the Old Kent Road meets Tower Bridge Road".
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,875
    Looked a bit naff the 'highlights' that I saw.
  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    edited July 2012
    I liked Comedy Central's take on it. http://www.comedycentral.co.uk/news/the-shard-opens-with-stunning-laser-show-ca5f3484

    Especially this bit:
    The Shard will be a 'mixed use' building. That's architects' jargon that means some of its uses will be good and some bad. The office work will mostly be dreary, but some of the shenanigans in the hotel above will be quite exciting. The penthouses will boast a mixture of good fun and the dreadful rich while the viewing platforms will offer amazing views of London for the terrible price of 25 quid.