Personally, love it. Jog past it, it’s gorgeous.Â
I wondered for a long time when would then finish it.
I love it. Shiny, pointy, triangular.
It’s fantastic; iconic, dramatic and unique. Tremendous achievement.
Sharp in a pointy way
I love it, reminds me both of an ancient pyramid and a futuristic skyscraper. It acts as a beacon that you can see from wherever in town.
You have to see it from a distance to truly appreciate it. From One Tree Hill in Greenwich Park, when the sunlight falls on it, it really does look like a delicate and beautiful shard of glass.
There is a reason it’s located exactly where it is – the sight lines are incredible. None of these photos do it justice at all.
Needs the Eye of Sauron to complete it.
it’s aesthetically tall.
> What do Londoners think of the Shard aesthetically?
My main thought, every time that I see it, whether from near or far is very much just “oh, there is The Shard”.
I don’t really have a strong love, hatred or ambivalence of the design (philosophical question, can you be ambivalent about ambivalence?), but it is unavoidably just THERE.
Oh, there is The Shard.
I love it
It annoys me that the very top isn’t a neat tip
It’s much better than nearby Guy’s tower 🤣.
There’s definitely uglier buildings, like the walkie talkie
I like it as it’s different and improves the London skyline by standing out. We’ve avoided the hellscape of dozens of tall, square and grey buildings.
Slightly dystopian but I sort of like it
I like th design and lines, but this glass panel look is not at all timeless, its very “of the 2010s” and will always look so. There’s a lot of great architecture in London that has a timelessness where it blends in but the glass office block look is one that people where tiring of by the mid 2010s and I don’t think is ever gonna blend in a timeless fashion..
It’s fucking cool. Love it when they light it up like the Eye of Sauron
I find it interesting how rarely people mention that the state of Qatar own it. It’s obviously an open market and foreign investment is one of the reasons London is thriving, but I can’t help but think it’s a bit funny one of the most recognisable London landmarks is owned by another country (to exaggerate things it would be a bit like the Eiffel Tower being owned by Serbia, the difference being that one is obviously offices and the other isn’t). Love the building though, don’t really mind it, just a fun fact.
Who now has the strength to stand against the armies of Isengard?
I work in it and it has a Pokemon based off of it which I find hilarious that it’s my office
I am a fan. Mainly because you can see it from far away, instantaneously indicating where you are/what direction you are facing. Also because one of the restaurants in it has Korean toilets and I was tempted to stay there for at least an hour, charging my phone whilst having my butt gently blown dry.
That’s probably not the kind of logic you were hoping for.
I love it. I try to take a photo of it every time I see it from a different place. I might have a Shard fetish.
Every time I see it I can’t help but think they never completed the top section, it looks like scaffolding/beams without the building.
Other than that I like it.
I think it will age poorly. Doesn’t feel like a timeless design.
Shite.
I think it looks great.
My favourite is the Gherkin though. I wish it was bigger because it’s unfortunately getting hidden by everything else around it ðŸ˜
I’m not from London but the Shard and many of the other buildings I see on my regular visits are a damn sight more interesting to look at than the horrid glass rectangles that have started to litter the Manchester skyline!!!!
Londoners have become so accustomed to garish, odd shaped, skyscrapers that one could be erected in the shape of a glass penis and we’d all just nod, nickname it The Dick then explain to a passer-by about the protected views of St Pauls
One does not simply like or dislike Barad-Dûr… Barad-Dûr cares not whether it is liked… merely that you will do the work you are forced to little slave being… Orc of Mordor, child of Morgoth
It looks really ugly. The ones in Asian cities like Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Shanghai are much prettier.
Top tip, don’t go up the shard go up to the sky garden at 120 fenchchurch street, it’s free and you get an awesome view of London and the Shard.
shite
Personally, I hate it. It personifies the Dubai-ification of a lot of London. It has little, architecturally or aesthetically to commend it…it’s tall and made of glass…wow, just like everything else that is constructed in central London or the city. It doesn’t compliment the surrounding area, which is unsurprising when you realise that it’s owned and paid for by that well known bastion of taste, culture and human rights, the State of Qatar.
I doubt it will be standing in 50 years and good riddance to it.
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I fucking hate it. It’s just very big for being enormous’ sake. I don’t like how it has eclipsed the Gherkin, which is an actually interesting piece of architecture. The only saving grace is it can pretend to be a Christmas tree over the festive period.
Least favourite building in London
Somewhere between dislike to neutral.
It’s literally a shard of glass.
If it weren’t so prominent it wouldn’t be that much of a landmark just an ‘oh, that’s different’ and move on.
Best thing about it is the view from the restaurants/bars.
Looks crap.
Hideous, but vaguely useful as a landmark if you’re a little bit lost.
Listen, with a butt plug, a walkie talkie, a cheese grater and a large building with a PLAY button to compare it to, it tends to not bother anyone.
As someone who has lived in NY I think it’s out of place and tasteless.
1. It looks like the Eye of Sauron. Really bad imagery for the UK.
2. It’s in the wrong place. We do t have skyscrapers there. It should be in Canary Wharf.
3. It’s embarrassing. The top is all false height. It the same kind of cope you see in the Middle East. If we need that much height make the building justify it with floors all the way to the top. Not glass and metal extensions faking another 10 stories.
4. It’s objectively ugly. Just a violation of the skyline. A first draft.
London deserves a modern equivalent of the Chrysler building (the one people think is the Empire State). Maybe one day.
I hate it. But I really don’t like the look of most of the glass towers. They just don’t have any character.
I also do a lot of my maintenance on buildings like that so I have an additional frustration with them.
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Personally, love it. Jog past it, it’s gorgeous.Â
I wondered for a long time when would then finish it.
I love it. Shiny, pointy, triangular.
It’s fantastic; iconic, dramatic and unique. Tremendous achievement.
Sharp in a pointy way
I love it, reminds me both of an ancient pyramid and a futuristic skyscraper. It acts as a beacon that you can see from wherever in town.
You have to see it from a distance to truly appreciate it. From One Tree Hill in Greenwich Park, when the sunlight falls on it, it really does look like a delicate and beautiful shard of glass.
There is a reason it’s located exactly where it is – the sight lines are incredible. None of these photos do it justice at all.
Needs the Eye of Sauron to complete it.
it’s aesthetically tall.
> What do Londoners think of the Shard aesthetically?
My main thought, every time that I see it, whether from near or far is very much just “oh, there is The Shard”.
I don’t really have a strong love, hatred or ambivalence of the design (philosophical question, can you be ambivalent about ambivalence?), but it is unavoidably just THERE.
Oh, there is The Shard.
I love it
It annoys me that the very top isn’t a neat tip
It’s much better than nearby Guy’s tower 🤣.
There’s definitely uglier buildings, like the walkie talkie
I like it as it’s different and improves the London skyline by standing out. We’ve avoided the hellscape of dozens of tall, square and grey buildings.
Slightly dystopian but I sort of like it
I like th design and lines, but this glass panel look is not at all timeless, its very “of the 2010s” and will always look so. There’s a lot of great architecture in London that has a timelessness where it blends in but the glass office block look is one that people where tiring of by the mid 2010s and I don’t think is ever gonna blend in a timeless fashion..
It’s fucking cool. Love it when they light it up like the Eye of Sauron
I find it interesting how rarely people mention that the state of Qatar own it. It’s obviously an open market and foreign investment is one of the reasons London is thriving, but I can’t help but think it’s a bit funny one of the most recognisable London landmarks is owned by another country (to exaggerate things it would be a bit like the Eiffel Tower being owned by Serbia, the difference being that one is obviously offices and the other isn’t). Love the building though, don’t really mind it, just a fun fact.
Who now has the strength to stand against the armies of Isengard?
I work in it and it has a Pokemon based off of it which I find hilarious that it’s my office
I am a fan. Mainly because you can see it from far away, instantaneously indicating where you are/what direction you are facing. Also because one of the restaurants in it has Korean toilets and I was tempted to stay there for at least an hour, charging my phone whilst having my butt gently blown dry.
That’s probably not the kind of logic you were hoping for.
I love it. I try to take a photo of it every time I see it from a different place. I might have a Shard fetish.
Every time I see it I can’t help but think they never completed the top section, it looks like scaffolding/beams without the building.
Other than that I like it.
I think it will age poorly. Doesn’t feel like a timeless design.
Shite.
I think it looks great.
My favourite is the Gherkin though. I wish it was bigger because it’s unfortunately getting hidden by everything else around it ðŸ˜
I’m not from London but the Shard and many of the other buildings I see on my regular visits are a damn sight more interesting to look at than the horrid glass rectangles that have started to litter the Manchester skyline!!!!
Londoners have become so accustomed to garish, odd shaped, skyscrapers that one could be erected in the shape of a glass penis and we’d all just nod, nickname it The Dick then explain to a passer-by about the protected views of St Pauls
One does not simply like or dislike Barad-Dûr… Barad-Dûr cares not whether it is liked… merely that you will do the work you are forced to little slave being… Orc of Mordor, child of Morgoth
It looks really ugly. The ones in Asian cities like Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Shanghai are much prettier.
Top tip, don’t go up the shard go up to the sky garden at 120 fenchchurch street, it’s free and you get an awesome view of London and the Shard.
shite
Personally, I hate it. It personifies the Dubai-ification of a lot of London. It has little, architecturally or aesthetically to commend it…it’s tall and made of glass…wow, just like everything else that is constructed in central London or the city. It doesn’t compliment the surrounding area, which is unsurprising when you realise that it’s owned and paid for by that well known bastion of taste, culture and human rights, the State of Qatar.
I doubt it will be standing in 50 years and good riddance to it.
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I fucking hate it. It’s just very big for being enormous’ sake. I don’t like how it has eclipsed the Gherkin, which is an actually interesting piece of architecture. The only saving grace is it can pretend to be a Christmas tree over the festive period.
Least favourite building in London
Somewhere between dislike to neutral.
It’s literally a shard of glass.
If it weren’t so prominent it wouldn’t be that much of a landmark just an ‘oh, that’s different’ and move on.
Best thing about it is the view from the restaurants/bars.
Looks crap.
Hideous, but vaguely useful as a landmark if you’re a little bit lost.
Listen, with a butt plug, a walkie talkie, a cheese grater and a large building with a PLAY button to compare it to, it tends to not bother anyone.
https://preview.redd.it/ime2j0hkms4g1.jpeg?width=3264&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e231cd4480705aa5f0b8ffeab74b856fe90c3a0f
Looks unfinished.
Sauron’s tower.
As someone who has lived in NY I think it’s out of place and tasteless.
1. It looks like the Eye of Sauron. Really bad imagery for the UK.
2. It’s in the wrong place. We do t have skyscrapers there. It should be in Canary Wharf.
3. It’s embarrassing. The top is all false height. It the same kind of cope you see in the Middle East. If we need that much height make the building justify it with floors all the way to the top. Not glass and metal extensions faking another 10 stories.
4. It’s objectively ugly. Just a violation of the skyline. A first draft.
London deserves a modern equivalent of the Chrysler building (the one people think is the Empire State). Maybe one day.
I hate it. But I really don’t like the look of most of the glass towers. They just don’t have any character.
I also do a lot of my maintenance on buildings like that so I have an additional frustration with them.
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