Design

The Shard, London's Newest Outcast

Is Europe's newest tallest building "egomaniacal architecture" at its worst?
Mark Byrnes

The Shard, Europe's newest tallest building, will be inaugurated today whether Londoners like it or not. And many Londoners do truly dislike it. The Guardian's Simon Jenkins wrote:

Cities' own Feargus O'Sullivan took to Twitter to say he hopes the Shard will one day be seen as a sobering mistake, like Paris's Tour Montparnasse.