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High achievers: the world's great skyscrapers

15/2/2011

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A look at Britain's tallest building and the world's other high achievers.

London's skyline is rapidly transforming as its latest landmark skyscraper, the Shard, takes the title of Britain's tallest building. Towering above London Bridge train station on the south bank of the Thames, the Shard has already outstripped Canary Wharf's One Canada Square, previously the city's tallest building at 235 metres.

It will eventually rise to 310 metres, making it the tallest building in the European Union when it is completed in May next year.

The pyramid-like, glass structure was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. The Shard promises to be a ''vertical city'', with offices, restaurants, a five-star hotel, a spa and some of the swankiest apartments in the capital (shardlondonbridge.com). The 87-storey tower will also feature a public viewing platform on its 72nd floor, which is expected to attract more than a million visitors a year.

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Published in The Age. Copyright Fairfax Media..
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