The Shard - Connecting the Dots

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We are continuing to give you extra work for our English classes; it is also for whoever wants to practice their English.

Lower-Intermediate pages from February Speak Up

Skim for Gists

- What is called: "The View from the Shard"?

- Why has the project of realizing the Shard been defined sustainable?

- What are the facets? Where else can you have them?

- What else of spectacular has the Italian architect Renzo Piano designed? Where?

We have been working on this blog just for a little while, but it’s worth thinking about it.

It is always a pleasure meeting students so eager to learn, considering English a “tessera” in their future, accepting all the suggestions we give them, but also coming to class with their own ideas.

The more you are surrounded by English, reading, watching films, the more you acquire the language.

Students' contribution too is fundamental.

If you devote time, energy, concentration to this "enterprise", it will work.

Two students who posted their comments were beginners in October, but they “dared” facing an advanced English text like "The Women of India" and found their own way to understand the text.

This extra material can integrate your study; find your own links with your personal life.

Ilaria, Franca, Francesco, Fabio, Caterina, Sara: communication of ideas works very well at this stage of work and the classroom is the proper place to draw attention on mistakes. To meet your request of having writings corrected, we are going to email considerations about them to you as individual students. By yourselves, after a while, you can read again what you wrote and see what can be improved. Then we can compare our evaluations.

There is so much more to know about Renzo Piano as an architect, and all his projects can be found on the Internet. These days, since Sara's comment is so recent, September 2018, there is also the project for the new bridge that has to built in Genoa, to substitue the collapsed one, Ponte Morandi. Whitout being called, Renzo Piano as a citizen, and a Genoese citizen, offered his skills to accelerate and guarantee the recovery of a city that needs, like any other in Italy, to be respected in its own rights, to be able to offer its inhabitants a serene life.

See you in class

Anna - Coordinator

Comments

0 #9 Sara 2018-09-07 15:58

1) The View from the Shard is the view of landscape from the sky scraper where you can go and you can see all London. It's a place at the top of the building where you can have the beautiful View because it's the highest vantage point of the skyscraper.
2) the project of realizing the Shard has been defined as sustainable because the 95 per cent of the construction material has been recycled, while 20 per cent of the steelwork comes from recycled sources.
3) the facets are different sides and panes of glass which composed the shard. In fact if you see this building, you can notice 6 0 8 facets sides and 11 and left thousand panes of glass.
4)Renzo Piano has also designed the centre of George Pompidou in Paris,the aquarium of Genova and in Rome the Auditorium Park of the Music

0 #8 caterina 2014-10-16 21:01

1)The wiew from the shard is the landscape of London city laid before you that you can see from the viewing galleries.

2)The project of the shard has been definited an example of sustainable urban developpement because its materials come from reiciclable soueces.
3) The facetes are the different sides and panes of glass which composed the shard.
4) Renzo Piano made other important buildings as the centre of George Pompidou in Paris the aquarium of Genova

0 #7 Fabio Barsotti 2014-10-16 14:40

1) "The View from The Shard" is one of the most famous London's attractions. "The Shard", a skyscraper built in the London Bridge Quarter, contains offices, restaurants, shops, a luxury hotel (the Shangri-La Hotel), residential apartmens, and also viewing galleries which are called "The View from The Shard". The galleries are the highest vantage point of the entire capital. 2) "The Shard" represents an example of urban sustainable development because almost all of the construction materials has been recycled. 3) The facets are panels of glass applied to the concrete core of the building. Renzo Piano often uses glass in his projets, in union with stone, wood and steel. Some examples: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Maison Hermès, Tokyo; The New York Times Building, New York. 4) Renzo Piano designed an incredible quantity of projets. Personally I visited the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, and the Nemo, in Amsterdam.

0 #6 Francesco Arrighi 2014-10-15 11:17

4)What else of spectacular has the Italian architect Renzo Piano designed? Where?
Renzo Piano has designed “The London Bridge Place” ( it is adjacent to the Shard) in London , and “Centre Georges Pompidou” in Paris and other more. All his projects are viewable on Renzo Piano website, www.rpbw.com. He has designed a impression number of buildings

0 #5 Francesco Arrighi 2014-10-15 11:15

3)What are the facets? Where else can you have them?
The facets are the glass panels . Renzo Piano has used the facets in other building. For example “The Aurora place” in Sydney, and the Muse museum in Trento and others more .

0 #4 Francesco Arrighi 2014-10-15 11:15

2)Why the project of realizing the Shard has been defined sustainable?
The Shard is defined as a sustainable project because built with recycled materials.

0 #3 Francesco Arrighi 2014-10-15 11:14

1)What is called: "The view from the Shard"?
Is called “The view from the Shard” the panoramic that we can see from the viewing galleries on the top .
This skyscraper has been called "The Shard" because its designer, Renzo Piano, describing it to the press, described him as a shard of glass, consisting of many panels of glass.

0 #2 franca landucci 2013-03-06 16:30

1)The capital's highest viewing galleries is called:the view from the Shard.2)The project of realizing the Shard has been defined sustainable because 95 per cent of the construction material has been recycled, while 20 per cent of the steelwork comes from recycled sources.3)A shard is a fragment of glass and this Shard consists of facets of glass that don't actually touch,this allows the building to breathe.
4)we can have them in greenhouses, in aquariums, in the passage covered.5) Renzo Piano has designed: Centre Pompidou o Beaubourg in Paris, Nemo in Amsterdam, auditorium of park l'Aquila, auditorium Roma, stadium of Bari, Rocca di Frassinello Winery Gavorrano Grosseto.

-1 #1 ilaria 2013-02-13 18:29

I searched some information about Renzo Piano on web and I want to share with you what I discovered.
Renzo Piano is one of the most important architect in the world.
In the 1998 he won the Pritzker Prize given to him by the U.S. President Bill Clinton.
He was born in Genova in the 1937, he attended the Faculty of Architecture in Florence and Milan.
He started his work thanks to his father, a builder that help him to discover the life yard.
He travelled to the U.S. and England to increase his skills.
His one of the most important work is the centre of George Pompidou in Paris.
In Italy he built the famous Aquarium of Genoa and many other buildings.