The materials may not all be cutting ... of a tall building is to reduce weight, and so the Shard is a lightweight building in terms of its ability to store heat. Buildings that have heavy ...

Twelve lasers and 30 searchlights lit up the sky last night to celebrate the inauguration of The Shard - the tallest building ... tower in the wind for the comfort of its occupants, to minimising the ...

Dean Nicholas Photos: Workers Building The Top Of The Shard Relaxing at 300m The view ... it will extend Europe's tallest skyscraper to its full height of 309.5m. The building is due to be ...

Instead its planes never quite ... ‘The View from the Shard’ is packaged as a touristic ‘experience’. The day I went, a light drizzle blotted out everything beyond about half a mile. In fact, the ...

So when Piano sits down in his Paris office and spreads out photographs of the Shard at various stages of its construction, he is entitled to feel proud, and not a little relieved, that more than ...

Banks have pledged £196m for the first phase of Renzo Piano's London Bridge skyscraper Developer Sellar Property Group has secured interim development finance for the initial construction phase of the ...