Actor Idris Elba—Stringer Bell, Nelson Mandela—recently told Arch Digest's roving reporters that the Renzo Piano-designed Shard in London is his favorite piece of architecture: "[T]here is not really one building that I love, except for the Shard. I think that the Shard is beautiful." Sweeter words have never been uttered at the much-jabbed-at tower. [Daily AD; previously]
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