London nightlife panoramic view overlooking Shard Oxo Tower London Eye Walkie Talkie from Balfron Tower in Poplar, London, UK.
Balfron Tower is a 26-storey residential building in Poplar, a district of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the East End of London. It forms part of the Brownfield Estate. It was designed by Ernő Goldfinger in 1963 for the London County Council, built 1965-67 by the GLC, and has been a Grade II listed building since 1996. Balfron also has a twin - 31-floor Trellick Tower in North Kensington, designed by the same architect. Both buildings are notable examples of Brutalist architecture. The Shard, also referred to as the Shard of Glass, is a 95-storey skyscraper in Southwark, London, that forms part of the London Bridge Quarter development. Standing metres (1,016 ft) high, the Shard is the tallest building in London and is currently the 87th tallest building in the world, the tallest building in the European Union and the fourth tallest building in Europe. It is also the second-tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, after the concrete tower at the Emley Moor transmitting station. The glass-clad pyramidal tower has 72 habitable floors, with a viewing gallery and open-air observation deck on the 72nd floor, at a height of metres (802 ft). It was designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano and replaced Southwark Towers, a 24-storey office block built on the site in 1975. The Shard was developed by Sellar Property Group on behalf of LBQ Ltd, and is jointly owned by Sellar Property and the State of Qatar.
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