Shard / London Bridge Tower | Southwark | 309m | 72 fl

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The Shard: Hoist platform by cybertect, on Flickr

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. by Adam NFK Smith, on Flickr

[Medenine]

Incredible!
the new core has come from nowhere It seems that work has been done over the weekend.

[SE9]

A few shots from New Cross (south east London):

[scalatrava89]

Great pictures SE9. Love seeing The Shard from afar. As soon as the core clearly passes the top of Guys it’s really going to dominate the skyline.

[BorderBoy]

Originally Posted by chest

I just use an excellent little digital camera - Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ8 it has a 16 x zoom and no tripod.

I have the same camera but somehow can't get it to 'perform' quite to your standard

[tylerburbank]

r they gonna clean up Guy's cladding or atleast give it a re-clad? I hope so!!

[connorwilliams]

Originally Posted by SE9

Just wondering where "The Three Spires" would fit into that shot?
Would it create a skyline of: Guys, Shard, St Pauls, the Three Spires, South London Tower Blocks, the Barbican Estate and the City of London cluster; all in a single 'skyline'?

Actually, where would the Walkie-Talkie be placed in that shot?

[vank]

Nice pictures SE9, I know that place in Lewisham

[cybertect]

Originally Posted by connorwilliams

Just wondering where "The Three Spires" would fit into that shot?

Three Spires would be bang in front of The Shard from that angle.

[bobdobbs]

Originally Posted by tylerburbank

r they gonna clean up Guy's cladding or atleast give it a re-clad? I hope so!!

Thats been in the pipeline for a while, although where the funding is going to come from is still unclear: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...513615&page=12

[googledpeakoil]

Originally Posted by BorderBoy

I have the same camera but somehow can't get it to 'perform' quite to your standard

Somebody else with this nice camera
I have this one too! It really is an amazing zoom camera with great optics (no lens distortion, purple fringing with extreme light conditions). I'm getting a TZ7 today (hopefully). It's a pocket size version with a 12x zoom - amazing!
In Shard related news - I was in London on Sunday - took some TZ28 pics, emailed them to myself at work and they haven't arrived - was planning on uploading them during my lunch hour
I took some from London Bridge station (the open platforms grant an excellent viewpoint) and some from Battersea Park station (from the train! - i had a reasonably clean window).

[googledpeakoil]

Originally Posted by CroydonTown

As an uneducated guess, I would imagine that once the reformed core is up and clear of the old core box, it will be dismantled, leaving it looking like the backpack's smaller core is at the moment. Otherwise it will look a little odd from some sides.

I think they'll leave the formwork on until it's in the way of the steels (which will probably be in 8 weeks or so). It'll look quite nice with 2 black stripes on it
It might be safer to not dismantle it too early. I wouldn't want to be working underneath it when they dismantle it!

[googledpeakoil]

[QUOTE=chest;63198901]few from today with some close ups of the core box to try and work out what's happening - it looks like a separate box emerging from the original box leaving it behind- a bit like the little Alien mouth that comes out of the big Alien mouth


QUOTE]

For those wondering what's going on... I'm assuming that they're keeping the side of the form work that does not set back (the North, river-facing side) and just moving that up. But on the other 3 sides (that do set back) they've inserted new form work inside the old form work.
So one old piece of form work and 3 new pieces will rise up from here.
The above photo shows it pretty clearly.
It must be quite complicated adjusting it - and breaking it into staggered bits without causing the whole ****ing think to come crashing down on the people underneath! I'd hate to be the safety guy on this ensuring that doesn't happen! Some responsibility!
Anyway - glad to see it's started moving up again.

[Atmosphere]

"a bit like the little Alien mouth that comes out of the big Alien mouth"

I like that one But you're right. Finally the new core is born.

[googledpeakoil]

Mine from Sunday
Apologies for the enormous size - I shrunk them to 66% - but maybe I should have shrunk them to 50%!


This one's a bit HDR'd... but the cloudiness meant it didnt work that well!


From near Battersea Park train station (2 miles out from Waterloo, so about 4-5 miles away from the Shard)


From a platform at Charing Cross.

[Buck Rogers]

I'm loving how they've done that....very 'nifty'....for want of a better word.

Riiiiise Sir Shardalot!

[edtealdi]

Has it moved today? I can not quite tell from home, too far away.

[scalatrava89]

Great pictures guys. Googledpeakoil I love your second picture, it’s not my new background. I’m heading down at the weekend (MUSE live at Wembley Stadium ) so I’ll pop over and take some shots.

[AlexanderCameron]

Originally Posted by edtealdi

Has it moved today? I can not quite tell from home, too far away.

If I was to speculate, I would guess around a metre.

Mace, building the Shard one metre at a time.

[EverLast]

It's very nice to see the new smaller core emerging