After much squeezing in amongst the other hundreds of visitors, I managed to get some photos from the viewing gallery of the Shard last week on a sunny (but a little misty) day
As well as these two snaps of the “classic” views of the Square Mile and Canary Wharf, I managed to visit all corners of the 2-floor viewing gallery to get enough images to form a 360 degree panorama. When reflections were edited out this took 32 separate images stitched together and even then some reflections still remained.
I did the same exercise in April 2013 and ended up with a 360 panorama on that occasion too – actually a bit more successfully if truth be told – so I can now superimpose them on top of one another to see how much the skyline has altered in that 10 years
I gave up counting but at least 100 new tower blocks look to have appeared in that 10 years and whereas before there were really only two “downtown” environments in the City of London and Canary Wharf, there now seem to be several more growing rapidly. In the 2023 image there are clearly groups developing at Elephant and Castle, Vauxhall/Battersea, Waterloo and Blackfriars visible.
The link is to the superimposed 2013-2023 skyline panoramas which can be revolved and magnified
https://www.panomart.net/wp-content/uploads/shard2013-2023.html