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 ...

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 ...

The Shard building, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano to represent, as its name suggests, a shard of glass, is more than an iconic landmark. As the tallest building in the United ...

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 ...

London's enormous Shard newspaper ... some 95% of construction materials used to make it were recycled. Source: The Guardian However critics say the building doesn't fit with its neighbors ...

The Shard was officially unveiled in London over a decade ago and dubbed the European Union’s tallest building at the time. Its striking ... according to press materials, reveals elegant ...

NESTLED in the middle of a forest, a towering structure almost as tall as London’s iconic Shard ... new building designs that break away from the conventional vertical blueprint. Its façade ...