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The shard floor plan.
The shard also referred to as the shard of glass shard london bridge and formerly london bridge tower is a 95 storey skyscraper designed by the italian architect renzo piano in southwark london that forms part of the shard quarter development standing 309 6 metres 1 016 feet high the shard is the tallest building in the united kingdom and the sixth tallest building in europe.
The shard also known as the london bridge tower.
The core concrete floor 72 shard emerged in early 2011 standing at 245 meters.
More information can be found on the shard hotel page.
More info on the shard.
A mix of uses residential offices and retail creates a building that is in use 24 hours a day.
The first part in january 2011 saw the installation of hydraulic screens used to form the concrete floors of the hotel and apartment section of the tower and rose up to the 69th floor.
Floors 1 3 lobby 4 28 office space 31 33 restaurants 34 50 shangri la hotel 52 spa 53 65 apartments 68 72 the view from the shard 75 87 spire.
The shard comprises 26 floors of high specification office space three floors of restaurants the 19 floor five star shangri la hotel 13 floors of residential apartments and london s highest public viewing gallery.
The offices were developed to create a vibrant business community and are now home to 32 companies across a variety of business sectors including energy retail.
Also known as the shard the recently opened london bridge tower designed by renzo piano is the centrepiece of the redevelopment of the area around london bridge station one of london s key transport nodes whose trains busses and underground rail lines carry 200 thousand passengers a day.