This Saturday I managed to take a day out of my busy manic life and go down to London Bridge area near Tower bridge and the city hall. Whilst I love this area and try to go down as much as possible, there was another reason for my urge to go there. The Shard! Now I always talk about this building and every day the support for this building increases! I had not actually been to see the building in person for a few months so it was rather exciting to get there to see it. The thing is Massive and I really cant describe how big it is. When you see pictures of the building, you have a certain image in your head of scale and I just have not seen any pictures that actually justify how big (and I am not even talking about height) this structure is. Yes, the building is very tall but what really made me gasp was the size of the base! It reminds me or trying to walk around the Empire state building and thinking “what side am I on!?” but this is worse because or the shape and the streets around it. I noticed everyone that was walking by the building was looking up. This made me tingle because it reminded me exactly of the excitement that I had when I visited New York and now I can see it here. Buildings of this size are just unknown in London, yes you have Canary wharf but it is usually seen from a distance. People seemed to be taken in by this beautiful monster and it is not even complete yet. I can happily say that London has taken this building in as soon as it poked its head above the station and now it appears on just as many programs (being built) as the Gherkin does (built) even the apprentice shows the building in the background of every single shot. Here are some of the photos of “my baby” when I visited the area on Saturday!
Just outside London Bridge station
its amoozing!!!
really odd colour that this photo come out in but you can see the scale compare to the surrounding area
Signing out, Thatmfeeling
