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[…] For those who don’t know the story of this megalith, it used to be an office block called Southwark Towers. The man behind the vision is Irvine Sellar, who purchased the site in 1998. Yes, this has been a long time in the making! The building work itself only started in 2009, and the completed building opened in July 2012. Sellar’s vision was “to create an architecturally striking vertical city”, and the man who put the vision down on paper was Italian Renzo Piano. He apparently took his inspiration from Canaletto paintings and 18th century ships. Whilst I can see that a little, to me it also bears more than a passing resemblance to Sauron’s tower in The Lord of the Rings… (Follow this link and you’ll see what I mean! from http://www.whatneildid.com/2012/07/sauron-the-shard-mordor-via-bank/) […]