On entering the Shard from London Bridge station, visitors are immediately treated to a glimpse of British humour.
It's just a tiny bright shard in the vast wreckage of the real estate market.
It is believed he then threatened staff with a shard of glass from the window.
However, the trust declined to confirm whether a shard of glass was used in the incident.
That would leave the Shard as the undisputed tallest tower in Europe if it ever gets built.
Standing at 235m (770ft), One Canada Square in Canary Wharf is second to the Shard in height.
He then removes a green pen from his jacket and draws me an aerial sketch of The Shard.
Whether it's an affront or not, Londoners might as well ring in the Shard while they're at it.
Aqua Shard occupies two separate wings linked in the middle by a dramatic atrium bar with floor-to-ceiling windows over three floors.
He says that when he watches people looking at The Shard he sees in their faces "amazement" and "wonder".
The surgeons decided that they had no choice but to leave one shard of metal embedded in her brain.
When finished, the structure will stand around 3, 280 ft (1km) high, more than three times taller than the Shard.
The shard caused scratch marks on the woman's neck and stomach, but she will not require further medical attention.
In yet another wonderful callback, UNIT troops appear to help Shard employees who are returning to their former, uncontrolled selves.
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The phallic structural girth of the Shard either adds or detracts from that well-earned reputation, depending upon whom you ask.
The app also includes 360-degree photographic panoramas of everything from Westminster Cathedral to views from the top of the Shard.
Above Aqua Shard is Hutong, a Chinese restaurant focused on cuisine from the north, namely the Shandong Province, rather than usual Cantonese style found in London.
To some the Shard is a new icon for London - a demonstration of the energy, urgency and modernity of the great city.
When the body was X-rayed in 1968, a shard of bone was found in his skull, prompting speculation that he was killed by a blow.
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First, construction on The Shard, architect Renzo Piano's shimmering, 72-story skyscraper, wrapped up in London, making it the tallest building in Europe.
Each time the Olympic flame is exchanged between two torchbearers, the gold shard motifs on the uniforms connect the torchbearers visually as the lines link together.
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The company that built London's Shard skyscraper has been chosen to oversee the construction of a tower in Saudi Arabia set to be the world's tallest.
Under the plan, which must be approved by the City Council, developers could build more if they pay for architecture with the swagger of London's Shard or Shanghai Tower.
Multiple gold shards are used at the elbow to focus the eye on the arm, with a final shard continuing down to the cuff and the hand holding the torch.
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With enough money to bankroll anything from the Shard skyscraper in London to rebel fighters in Libya, fans of any club approached by Qatari state-backed buyers can be quietly confident.
The Shard has 11, 000 glass panels, with each side equalling a total area of 56, 000 sq m (603, 000 sq ft), meaning there was a genuine concern over a possible greenhouse effect.
The View from the Shard (the name given to the public viewing galleries on floors 68 to 72), which opens to the public on 1 February, is indeed a view like no other.
Construction of the towers, which will be Europe's tallest buildings when completed eclipsing three skyscrapers in Moscow and the Shard in London will start at the end of this year or beginning of next year.
Before the official party kicks off, the Shard public-relations team on Wednesday invited dozens of media members to an embargoed chat with several key players in the 12-year odyssey of turning the Shard into reality.
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