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Saturday Snapshots #229 – The View from the Shard

by Jeanne Horak on January 12, 2013 10 Comments in London Life, Photography, Saturday Snapshots

View from The Shard St Pauls © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

 St Paul’s cathedral as seen from the viewing platform of The Shard – London, January 2013

The Shard, formerly London Bridge Tower before Londoners affectionately renamed it, is a 95-storey skyscraper in London.  Designed by architect Renzo Piano, its construction began in March 2009 and it was topped out on 30 March 2012.  At 309.6 metres high, the Shard is the tallest building in the EU and when fully complete will contain 24 floors of office space, a 200-room Shangri-La hotel, four floors of restaurants, 10 luxury apartments (reputedly priced at around £50 million each – gulp!), and a double-volume public viewing platform (the UK’s highest) on the top floors, offering panoramic views of the entire London.  Although most of the building is still in the final stages of completion, the public viewing platform opens to the public on 1 February and I was lucky enough to be invited along to the press preview last week, together with Andrew and Chris.

Once you have negotiated the giant construction site that London Bridge has become and located the dedicated entrance to the View from the Shard, you enter the sleek lobby which has surprisingly little space for queueing – the plan is to sell timed tickets so as to avoid the legendary queues often seen at the Empire State Building in NYC. While waiting for their bags to be screened, visitors are drawn into the history of London via a series of whimsical backlit panels where 140 famous Londoners have been superimposed on vintage views of the city: Alfred Hitchcock fleeing the pigeons in Trafalgar Square; Banksy spraying a new masterpiece on a Baker Street wall; the Queen and her corgi riding on a scooter; and on the Thames by the Houses of Parliament, olympian Steve Redgrave waterskiing. As you approach the lifts, you follow the blue line of a virtual River Thames at your feet, annotated with riddles so that you can guess which area of London is being described.

 

View from The Shard panels © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

View from The Shard mural © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

View from The Shard floor  © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

Two sets of high-speed lifts in slightly offset shafts whisk visitors to the 33rd floor and from there to the 68th floor viewing platforms.  With the lifts travelling at a speedy 6 metres per second, this trip is over in 30 seconds – just enough time for your ears to pop. Although it was not yet ready when we visited,  a soaring anthem by the London Symphony Orchestra, composed especially for the occasion, will eventually provide the soundtrack for the journey.   To me, the speed of the journey creates a slight disconnect in the brain.  With the Eiffel Tower, there is a very real-time sense of ascending laboriously to a great height, so that by the time you get to the top your brain knows it is going to be Very High Up.  These lifts, however, do nothing of the sort – in the same journey time, the lift in my office building makes to about the 7th floor! So when you finally do step out at the viewing platform, it takes a while for your brain to process what your eyes are telling you as they take in all of London at once, spread below you. Far below you!

 

View from The Shard looking down © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

View from The Shard Tower Bridge 1 © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

View from The Shard Tower Of London © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

The Shard Gherkin & Tower42 day © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

The Shard London Bridge tracks © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

View from The Shard bridges © J Horak-Druiff 2013


On level 68 where you exit the lifts, the windows are obscured with opaque screens to discourage lingering, but climb the stairs to the 72nd floor and you find yourself in a soaring triple-volume viewing gallery.  Forget the cramped confines of Vertigo atop Tower 42 – this lovely airy space with its dark wooden floors and subdued classical music is an entirely different experience.  The weather on the day we visited was grey with low cloud and fairly limited visibility, but help is at hand in the form of 12 Tell:Scopes.  These nifty interactive digital telescopes with large touchscreens can be used in real-time like traditional telescopes, but also offer the option of pre-recorded alternative views – for example if you visit by day and wonder what the same view would look like by night.  As famous buildings and landmarks appear in your Tell:Scope sight, over 200 of them can be clicked on screen to provide you with a brief  history and background of the building in any one of 10 languages.   And for those who like to be in touch with the elements, you can also climb another floor up to the partially open-air viewing platform where you still see the view through two layers of glass, but stand under the open skies, with only the spire of the building and the planes heading for London City Airport above you. Back inside you will also find a small gift shop, and surely the loos with the best urban view in the world.

 

View from The Shard open platform © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

View from The Shard spire © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

View from The Shard climber © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

The Shard Interior 2 © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

The Shard Interior 1 © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

The Shard Interior dusk © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

The Shard Tellscope day  © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

The Shard Tellscope detail  © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

The Shard Tellscope night © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

And what about the famous view?  In a word, mesmerising – even on a relatively dull and cloudy day like when we went.  Seeing a city that you know so well from so much higher than ever before is a magical thing.  Cars shrink to the size of bugs and people to ants.  Suddenly spatial relationships that are impossible to grasp from the ground become obvious.  With the noise, hustle and bustle of the city stripped away, it becomes possible to get a whole new perspective on the place where you live. On a clear day, you can evidently see for 40 miles but on the pea-soupy winter’s day when we visited, you struggled to make out the Wembley Stadium arch.  However, as night fell and the lights of the city winked on one by one, the clouds became irrelevant and a whole new tapestry unfurled at your feet, possibly even more magical than the daytime scene.

 

The Shard view west night © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

The Shard Gherkin & Tower42  night © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

The Shard view east at night © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

The Shard Tower Bridge at night © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

The Shard Canary Wharf at night © J Horak-Druiff 2013

 

The verdict:  A lot of thought has obviously gone into putting together the attraction, rather than just bunging in a lift to the top of a tall building. A lot of effort has been made to make this about London itself, not just about a big skyscraper and a lot of context is provided for visitors. I loved the airy, spacious feel of the viewing gallery and the fact that you can walk right up to the floor-to-ceiling windows and peer both down and out. Of course, it will be a lot fuller when the attraction opens to the public but although capacity is 400 people they are not going to admit more than about 250 at a any given time, so it should never be the scrum that, say, the Eiffel Tower can be. It’s also good that although you have a timed entry ticket, once inside you can linger for a long as you like. I found it reminded me most of the viewing platform of the Sears Tower in Chicago, another high vantage point more suited to contemplation and dreaminess rather than scrumming for position. I found the open viewing platform a lot less open than I had envisaged – although open to the sky, you are still viewing London from behind not one but two layers of very thick glass, which makes photography somewhat, erm, interesting. The biggest sticking point for me (and many others) is the price – £24.95 per adult and £18.95 per child under 18 – which quickly mounts up if you are a family of four.  But then if you compare it to other high places in London, it starts looking less exorbitant: £18 per adult only buys you 30 minutes on the London Eye; to get to the top of The Gherkin you either have to work in the building or join a private member’s club for £250 plus £750 annual fees; the cheapest drink at Vertigo atop Tower 42 is £14, and then you are usually confined to the view from your table rather than walking around; and to get to Duck and Waffle in the Heron Tower, you have to buy a meal rather than just enjoying the view.  So although it is definitely not cheap, it is not actually bad value compared to other high-rise options – and it is pretty spectacular.  You can see yet more of my pictures taken at The View from The Shard in my Flickr album, or check out the photos taken by fellow-bloggers Andrew, Chris and Fiona.

My top tip: Go in the hour before sunset so that you can see the city change from daywear to nightwear before your eyes.

Essential info: The View from the Shard opens to the public on 1 February 2013 and is open from 09h00 till 22h00 every day. Tickets cost £24,95 for adults and £18.95 for children and must be booked in advance from the website or by phone.


The View From the Shard
Joiner Street
London Bridge Station
London
SE1 9RL

Tel. 44(0)844 499 7111
E-mail: enquiries@theviewfromtheshard.com 

 

 DISCLOSURE: I visited the View from The Shard as part of a series of pre-opening press previews. No remuneration other than the visit itself was received and all opinions are my own. 

 

Saturday Snapshots is a series of non-food photographs published every Saturday on CookSister.  Previously featured photographs can be viewed on the Saturday Snapshots archive page. Many photos featured in Saturday Snapshots are available to buy as high-quality greeting cards or prints in my RedBubble store, or even as high-quality A3-size calendars. If you want a custom calendar with your own selection of photos, starting with any month (not only January), please e-mail me and we can discuss your requirements.  Full colour calendars for 2013 include FLOWERS,  RAW,  LONDON,  LIFE’S A BEACH and  BELLA ITALIA – they make great gifts, for friends, family or for yourself.

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  1. andrew says

    January 13, 2013 at 7:31 pm

    Certainly an amazing view… are you sure you haven’t pinched some of my photos? 😉

    Reply
    • Jeanne says

      January 15, 2013 at 1:13 pm

      hah – you wish, mate ;o) Thanks for the compliment – and the invite!

      Reply
  2. Jyothsna says

    January 14, 2013 at 12:03 pm

    Beautiful! Love the city I live in! Must visit when it opens to public….all this time I thought the view from Paramount at Centre Point was amazing but this is stunning! Nice pictures.

    Reply
    • Jeanne says

      January 15, 2013 at 1:15 pm

      Thank you! It’s so great to be a tourist in your own city sometimes – gives you a renewed appreciation for where you live. Never been up Centre Point, but have been up the Gherkin https://www.cooksister.com/2006/07/guess_who_went_.html which was lovely as well. Totally different though!

      Reply
  3. Rosa says

    January 14, 2013 at 1:43 pm

    What a stunning view! Thatnks for sharing your gorgeous pictures with us.

    Cheers,

    Rosa

    Reply
    • Jeanne says

      January 15, 2013 at 1:15 pm

      It was quite spectacular! Glad you like them 🙂

      Reply
  4. Jamie says

    January 14, 2013 at 4:30 pm

    Wow! The view is indeed stunning and you make the whole adventure sound so mysterious and beautiful. Your photos are amazing and love that you brought us along on the whole trip. Now I personally am terrified of those floor-to-ceiling windows – I’ll never forget being at the top of the World Trade Tower with my son when he was about 8 and he went over and leaned against the glass panes with his whole weight. Yipes! But the Shard may be a risk worth taking!

    Reply
    • Jeanne says

      January 15, 2013 at 1:39 pm

      Thanks sistah! you know me, I like to tell the story, the whole story, and nothing but the story 😉 I do not mind being in very tall buildings, but put me on a ski char lift that has stopped in mid-air and I start having to do deep breathing exercises to calm down!!

      Reply
  5. Nic says

    January 19, 2013 at 9:06 pm

    I would love to go, looks spectacular from your wonderful photos (even if the 5th one made my tummy go funny, lol, must be the looking straight down thing!).

    Reply
    • Jeanne says

      January 23, 2013 at 11:17 pm

      LOL I know what you mean! Looking out is fine, looking down makes my legs tingle ;o) but it is definitely worth going up there at least once!

      Reply
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This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
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Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.

Non-necessary

Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.

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