The Shard opened this year based at London Bridge after three years of construction and development. It is Western Europes largest building towering at 310 meters tall, has 11,000 glass panels and is home to restaurants, a hotel, offices and private accomodation.
The building has mutiple technical innovations including an underground parking space, energy saving lifts, a heat filtering system and its very own small scale power plant. According to top architects, efficieny is the most imnportant element in a new development. Things change quickly when it comes to design, and efficient, energy saving aspects are always taken into account. Read original article from BBC.
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