The Shard design underwent wind tunnel analysis to ... and therefore the amount of cooling needed. (Arup are architectural engineers, or "building services engineers" in the British vernacular ...

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The design had to accommodate a heightened safety regime for skyscrapers introduced in the wake of 9/11. The Shard is built ... Piano believed was more open to architectural experiment, dynamism ...

It probably helped that Livingstone's architectural adviser ... Another key idea informed the Shard's shape: the idea of the steeple, a design feature of which London enjoys a rich legacy through ...

At 72 stories and 1,016 feet, the Shard is the tallest building in Western ... the cone-like structure isn’t only admired by architecture lovers. “I’d never seen anything like it.