New London Bridge House about to disappear

7am this morning a large crane was raising scaffolding to the top floors. Just came home now and parts of the scaffolding has appeared out the window of the 7th floor from the top. Probably be demolished in a matter of weeks. The replacement 'Baby Shard' or 'Gem' pictured on skyscrapernews.com doesn't look anything like the main SHARD in shape to me.
The 'Pinnacle' in the background below is nearing completion as well.

Nice shot Phoney.

Thats the Heron Tower in the background though. The Pinnacle is still a hole in the ground.

Apologies for being a bit of a skyscrapers nerd.

Cheers Gordon For weeks now I thought that was the Pinnacle. I keep getting my towers mixed up. It's all the excitement of the fantastic new buildings springing up.

*remembers when it was all fields round here.....*

I wonder how tall the pyramids would have been if the Pharaohs had these cranes.

its a shame they ditched the old design, new planned baby shard not much to look at IMO....but better than what is there now i guess....

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Here's a disconcerting picture of a digger being lifted onto the top of the tower:

http://twitpic.com/18pveq

Having seen no facilities on the riverbank being built to handle the rubble from the demolition, it seems that the residents of SE1 will suffer from months of tipper movements through their streets and past their homes.

Given the recent tragic death of a cyclist by a tipper that may well have been associated with The Shard, may we perhaps hope that these tippers will respect the 20 mph limits, respect residents and their neighborhoods and not kill any more cyclists.

The latest design for the replacement building and bus station on this site was approved last night:
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4444