Victorian chimneys and a shard of glass
Londen,
Groot-Brittannië
The Shard, London's newest landmark, towers above the Victorian streets of south London.
Renzo Piano, the project's architect, designed the Shard as a spire-like sculpture emerging from the River Thames. He was inspired by the railway lines next to the site, the London spires depicted by the 18th-century Venetian painter Canaletto, and the masts of sailing ships.