Designed by Renzo Piano and currently holding the title of Europe's tallest building, London's Shard building reaps high praise from New York-based architect Lee Mindel, who writes on ArchDigest.com that it "can almost make you believe that we live in a civilized world." Unfortunately for Piano, this opinion seems to be but a whisper in a much larger, far more contrarian crowd. [Architectural Digest; previously]
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