LONDON’S ‘SHARD’ IS EUROPE’S TALLEST TOWER

GROWING UP: Lasers and searchlights offer a dazzling show as Europe’s tallest skyscraper, the Shard, is inaugurated in London on Thursday night. The glass and steel structure, which stands 310 m tall, dethrones the Capital City Moscow Tower as the highest in the continent. Still, it is significantly shorter than Dubai’s 828m Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. The 95-floor Shard will open as a tourist attraction in February 2013.

Source::::: The Times of India, 07-07-2012, p.17. http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=TOIM&showST=true&login=default&pub=TOI&Enter=true&Skin=TOINEW