Is anyone else filled with an impending sense of doom by the inevitable rise of the Shard? It seems too massive, too dominant, to not have some kind of supernatural power attached to it... I sort of imagine the last double-glazed plate clicking into plate, and some kind of bad-CGI cloud effect emanating from the finished pinnacle, Zuul reborn and the end of the world or something...
Apart from the ridiculous film-set of it, when its finished, it is going to be like some massive Archimedes Heat Ray, the sun reflecting a beam of light grazing over south London... or more appropriately the Eye of Sauron. Surely with the full sun reflecting off it, and into your window, it'd be a like being under some kind of blowtorch...
Archimedes heat ray? I think 20 Fenchurch Street beat them to it.
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