Okay, so when I moved into the London Bridge area the first thing I noticed was The Shard, an ambitious-looking but partially-completed construction project that appeared to be about 80% of the way towards becoming a decent-sized skyscraper. I have since learned that The Shard is going to be the tallest building in Europe when it's completed in 20Never and that the current structure is a little under half of its total height. I have also learned that it is the Construction Site that Never Sleeps. Brutal.
However, I am obsessed with this thing. It is gauchely large and so ridiculous and, well, LOOK AT IT:
All the pictures of what it will look like in the future are swathed in the kind of softly emanating, holy glow usually reserved for saint's heads or Barbara Walters specials. The 'vision statements' that are printed on the side of the construction site are also really amazing:
