London Shard height of 310 meters

July 5 in London opening of the tallest skyscraper in Europe - Shard («splinter») London Bridge. The height of the building, designed by Italian architect knapsack Piano, reaches almost 310 meters. Builders named his creation "icon of London", the size of which pales in front of the nearby attractions of London, such as St Paul's Cathedral and the Palace of Westminster. Opening the building specially podgadali to top London Olympics, which starts on 27 July. The basis of "fragments" the idea of ​​"vertical city" 12 000 people: here you can live, work and relax without having to leave the building. Floors from 53 th to 65 th brought to the apartment - the most high-rise housing in the UK. The cost of apartments in the skyscraper, according to available information, is about $ 78 million. 95-story building was the tallest in Europe. Previously, the title of "best of the best" skyscraper owned by Commerzbank in Frankfurt, whose height is 298 meters. However, the European achievements pale in comparison to altitude record of Asia and America.