"It is out of all proportion to its surroundings. On the Tate Modern bridge the other day I stopped, transfixed. This is an architectural catastrophe for London. Forget what this ethereal spike would look like in a city of towers, a financial district already soaring. Stabbed into the historic fabric of a city that has never built especially tall, dwarfing Southwark Cathedral and such nearby landmarks as Tower Bridge, the Monument and even Tate’s converted power station, it seems a lunatic attack on London."
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The Shard is a broken society’s towering achievement | Jonathan Jones
But isn’t the point that in 20 years’ time, it inevitably will sit within a city of towers?
