The View From London's Shard Unveiled

The Shard opened its doors for the press on Friday to unveil its stunning panorama of the London skyline. Standing at 244m, with a 360-degree gallery on the 69th floor, the iconic tower is now Europe's tallest building.

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SHOTLIST: LONDON, OCTOBER 26, 2012. SOURCE: AFPTV SOUNDBITE 1 Anders Nyberg (man), Chief Executive, 'The View from the Shard' (English, 39 sec): "This is what we call a telescope. It is a video lens linked to this LCD screen. And you can point it at things, focus in on things, you can zoom in and out. It has content on various things you can find, click on the content and it will tell you some facts about what you're looking at. And you can do this in real time, which we are in now, you can switch to a perfect day view which gives you a much clearer vision, or we are here during the day, we can see what it looks like at night." SOUNDBITE 2 Anders Nyberg (man), Chief Executive, 'The View from the Shard' (English, 16 sec): "Other than the viewing galleries, we have several floors of offices, we have 3 floors of restaurants, we have 20 stories of hotel rooms, we have 13 stories of residences. It's a true urban village." IMAGES (1 min 40 sec): -VAR of the view from floor 69 -VAR of workers on the Shard -Cutaways of Anders Nyberg