22/08/2011 by Buildington
The meaning of this new building's monstrous size is blatant. The Shard is self-evidently a monument to wealth and power run way out of control. It screams with dazzling arrogance that money rules this city and says money inhabits a realm way above our heads. It is a vision of the financial sector floating above the proletarian streets, living by different rules and shaping events below it with icy ease.
Read the full article by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/19/shard-london-skyscraper