The Shard

Year

2012

Architect

Renzo Piano Renzo Piano

Type

building

At 309.6 metres, western Europe’s tallest building rises as eight angled glass planes that never quite meet, leaving open fractures that dissolve the summit into the sky. Piano drew inspiration from 18th-century paintings of London’s church …

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