The Shard: scintillating or a scar?

[Serial_Apologist]

Answer came there none....

Because it's a phallus see?

[Nick Armstrong]

Because it's a phallus see?

Oh that's terribly cunning, not to say quaint, S_A!

[Nick Armstrong]

Perhaps the only appropriate reaction to this particular edifice is Shardenfreude.

And that's even better!!

(You should be a Sun sub-editor)

[Northender]

Because it's a phallus see?

(pathetic!)
Are lady architects - assuming there ARE any - not allowed to use a public space to comment on their male colleagues' attributes? Incidentally, the relative merits of the Shard and the Gherkin were discussed at the start of last Sunday's DID - the guest being architectural critic Charles Jencks.

[Nick Armstrong]

resembling the one thing the giant it was presumably designed to impress would want to avoid sitting on.

Talking of which, it comes as a surprise to me at least to realise that with antenna and all, the Eiffel Tower is actually considerably taller than the Shard:

Eiffel Tower 324 m (1063 ft)
Shard 309.6 m (1016 ft)

Am I the only one who's surprised by that? I supposed the ET is so familiar in its context that I've lost awareness of its sheer height.

(Leaving the antenna out of the equation, the structure itself is marginally shorter than the Shard: 300.65 m (986 ft) for the Eiffel Tower compared with 304.1 m (998 ft) for the Shard)

I imagine most giants would find the Eiffel Tower equally uncomfortable, S_A...

[Northender]

And that's even better!!

(You should be a Sun sub-editor)

The Sun has sub-editors?

[Nick Armstrong]

The Sun has sub-editors?

Alright then - pun-heavy headline writers

[Northender]

Alright then - pun-heavy headline writers

CITY CHAVS AND TOP TOTTY TOAST SUPERTOWER IN SHARDANNAY
(I'm waiting for Tsonga/Kohlschreiber to start).

[Nick Armstrong]

CITY CHAVS AND TOP TOTTY TOAST SUPERTOWER IN SHARDANNAY
(I'm waiting for Tsonga/Kohlschreiber to start).

You are truly wasted here mate.

(Must be the pre-match Shardannay)

[MrGongGong]

Well from the cafe i'm sitting in now
i'm rather liking it
and it's certainly infinitely preferable to this monstrosity

[Serial_Apologist]

(pathetic!)
Are lady architects - assuming there ARE any - not allowed to use a public space to comment on their male colleagues' attributes?

I've no idea, but you're always welcome to discuss anything on here.

[Serial_Apologist]

Well from the cafe i'm sitting in now
i'm rather liking it
and it's certainly infinitely preferable to this monstrosity

Indeed - with the exception of the porch, which looks like it's been nicked from anywhere along Collingham Gardens in Earl's Court, then bleached, and the annex at the back, which looks as if it's been nicked from a standard local authority architect's guide to designing cheap fire stations, the building doesn't appear to acknowledge any advances in architectural style beyond about 1830.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

advances in architectural style beyond about 1830.

but surely there are none!

[MrGongGong]

but surely there are none!

Well there weren't any developments (a better word than "advances" ? IMV) in Music of any significance so I guess the same is true for architecture

[mercia]

wherever that fire station (?) is I bet it doesn't dominate the surrounding 100 square miles