Actually, come to think about it...

[Annette Curtain]

Actually, come to think about it...

I'm not diggin' The Shard

I cycled past it a 5am this morning & it did absolutely nothing for me

Stacks of shite white glass at an angle. So friggin what

There, i've said it !

(do feel free to add your own a.c.t.t.a.i's)

Nette

[steveo]

What do you cycle past that does do something for you?

[maxxi]

I think you have yet to find your OVD* Nette.

I think it looks rather swell... from the junction of LL and Heber rd.

*Optimum Viewing Distance.

[DJKillaQueen]

It's gonna cost ?25 a pop to go to the 'public' viewing floor. Don't think I'll bother either.

[Annette Curtain]

Oh blah blah

Don't get me wrong. I mean the whole building process has been fabulous and I love all that. it's just the end result is predictable don't you think. Bland, craftless & kit like

It's new

It's the tall

It's distinctly dull (with angles)

I think Boris described it as "like the needle of a hypodermic syringe, poking out from beneath the earth" he then waffled and said something a little more disparaging/generic about past buildings "Charles Dickens hated Big Ben" or something like he does

Conversely, take a building like 30 St Mary Axe. It's construction is there to marvel at and it plays with your senses. The further you are from it the more it stands out. However, try to find it without using a map. It's great fun, because it aludes you, hides almost. And when you do get there, the best view of it isn't a direct one, but a reflected view in the building adjacent to it

Netts

[steveo]

Fortunate soul that I am, I had dinner up the Gherkin last week. Apart from the security man who needed a lesson in manners, and the prices it was all super.

There was a lady playing one of the parked pianos outside the door

[uncleglen]

It still looks like it has the scaffolding around it to me. The architect is Italian- he had to come to London because they would not allow him to ruin the skyline of an Italian city.

[El Pibe]

Funnily enough didn't the gherkin designer say he regrets his youthful folly and think's, on reflection, it's shit, or somesuch?

let me have a dig around.....

herewigo http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/8598889/Architect-behind-the-Gherkin-says-he-has-finished-designing-strangely-shaped-edifices.html

"I was in there the other day," he said. "I was looking at the glass all the way around thinking, 'Why on earth did we do that?'"

[????]

Steveo=Michael Winner

[Annette Curtain]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> Funnily enough didn't the gherkin designer say he

> regrets his youthful folly and think's, on

> reflection, it's shit, or somesuch?

>

> let me have a dig around.....

>

>

> herewigo

> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrak

> e/8598889/Architect-behind-the-Gherkin-says-he-has

> -finished-designing-strangely-shaped-edifices.html

>

>

> "I was in there the other day," he said. "I was

> looking at the glass all the way around thinking,

> 'Why on earth did we do that?'"

Oh yes I agree & it's no way perfect

It looks like a working mathematical equation made physical

But, it has been very well received, & people feel genuine affection for it

It also broke relatively new ground when it was built.

The Shard; it's big innit !

Nette

[the-e-dealer]

Dinner up the gherkin sounds saucy!

[Undisputedtruth]

the-e-dealer Wrote:

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> Dinner up the gherkin sounds saucy!

Not enough to get in a pickle over.

[Annette Curtain]

Anyway, anyway, anyway...

The Shard's already been done else where, as I saw today

If you saw the closing credits of "Herbie Rides Again" (1974), then you'll see in the background near the Golden gate bridge a perfect "shard" pointy type building

So, meh. The (rip-off) Shard mk II in London stinks

Anyway and that aside, I was having dinner on Friday with an Architect friend of mine, who has designed the interiors of the apartments in the Shard. He tells me that the paranoia about the twin-towers is what led them to eventually opt for the mixed use, rather than straight commercial use.

However, office specification ceiling heights for the build, were already in place once this revision had been decided. So the new residential floors suffer from lower than average ceiling height, once the floors are raised and the false ceilings go in to accommodate all the services required.

All that for around ?20 + million a pop.

That said, the 360 degree view will be fabulous (as long as your not hitting your head on the chandeliers)

Nette

[steveo]

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> Steveo=Michael Winner

Ah, my secret is out.

For my next review I'll be taking my good friends Jah Lush and Joan Collins to Favourite Chicken and Ribs.

Fans are welcome to come along and buy signed DVDs of my new film Death Wishbone 6. Only ?97.99

[Jah Lush]

I thought you were taking me and Joannie to Nandos. She will be proper pissed off.

[DulwichFox]

If you can see the Shard from your Bedroom Window....

Then the Man in the Gabardine Suit who sits in the Shard can see you.

He has a very Big Telescope and a Camera and can see everything you are doing.

Foxy

[Loz]

She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy. I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera...