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The Shard

By: Ivy Pham & Yvette Ortega

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        As a new 72 story high, tallest skyscraper in London, England; The Shard is designed to represent a great achievement. With ten years of working on this project, it has “demonstrated the economic and social value of the buildings high-density structures” ( Theshard.com) Many of its great features comes from the design its self, being made out of glass and the top being as if it is a flower getting ready to bloom and open. Along with that The shard has an immense views as to say that the London citizens have no privacy due to the view area at the 68-72 floors towards the roof area. Because this building is so high it allows the guests inside to have an unlimited view of all their surroundings, at any moment they please.  In this building there is a total of four different areas the building is divided in; we have the first floor which is the lobby, then offices which are floors 2-28, then there is the restaurants floors 31-33, then the Shangri-La hotel in the floors 34-52, along with that there is floors considered “the view” on the 68-72 floors as we mentioned before. This hotel has become one of the hotspots in London and people are flying in to experience a birds eye view as upper class investors.

        The owners of this building are foreign and although they do not live in the skyscraper they just want this building to be seen as just another building. The owners of The Shard are QNB Group, Qatari Islamic Bank, QInvest, Barwa Real Estate. To whom we have to thank for this great achievement is the architect Renzo Piano. His key concept to his creating was.

        As an amazing building it there is a lot to cover, and the many services inside are great. One nice attraction that everyone would enjoy most is the food being served in the building, this is a real treat being able to sit in a luxurious restaurant while being able to gaze at London for desert. The restaurants that are included in such architecture beauty are the Aqua-Shard, Oblix, and the Hutong. These high end restaurants are all located within the thirty-first floor to the thirty-third floor. Each individual restaurant has different qualities such as interior design wise. Within the restaurants there is an all-day atrium three story bar which crosses all three restaurants. All the restaurants are private dining and dress codes, meaning that because these restaurants have such exquisite tastes and feels of luxury along with the food being served at each establishment; one makes an appointment to dine inside of a restaurant in a high end building so he or she must dress appropriate. The appropriate attire would consist of professional like casual wear, no sweats, or sandals basically anything a common person would wear to the market or daily routine.

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The Aqua-shard has a purple velvet feel to its chairs, and the peacock theme going on in the stalls. This restaurant serves “innovative contemporary British cuisines”. In the Oblix restaurant is another private dining and it serves Japanese food on the thirty-second floor. It was the first hospitality opened in the Shard the day of the grand opening. The fascinating restaurant of Hutong serves Contemporary Northern China cuisines and this fine dining design concept is based on dark wood and red lanterns it has a dark feel so that the red can give it some life. Throughout all of the restaurants, same flooring materials were used, just in different colors. All engineered wood flooring for the busy traffic. Dense and clear class all surrounded wall for the gorgeous view of the city.