{"id":2838,"date":"2012-12-06T18:01:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T17:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2012-12-06T18:01:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T17:01:13","slug":"open-lecture-technology-mathew-williams-the-shard-vertical-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/2012\/12\/06\/open-lecture-technology-mathew-williams-the-shard-vertical-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Lecture [Technology]: Mathew Williams &#8211; The Shard: Vertical City"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Tuesday 11th December 2012<\/li>\n<li>6PM<\/li>\n<li>Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre \/ M055<\/li>\n<li>Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2839\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/12\/121211_flyer_MatthewWilliams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/12\/121211_flyer_MatthewWilliams.jpg 440w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/12\/121211_flyer_MatthewWilliams-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Williams is an Associate at Renzo Piano Building Workshop and was the project architect on the Shard from concept to completion, a period of over 12 years. In this unique lecture Matthew will tell the story of how Europe\u2019s largest building reinvents the rules of tall buildings and reveals the technological innovations that were made in the process.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018The shard is like a sensor of the city. It is never the same; it is a subtle, sharp, ever-changing presence in the city; not arrogant or aggressive.\u2019<br \/>\n<\/em> &#8211; Renzo Piano<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday 11th December 2012 6PM Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre \/ M055 Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus Matthew Williams is an Associate at Renzo Piano Building Workshop and was the project architect on the Shard from concept to completion, a period of over 12 years. In this unique lecture Matthew will tell the story of how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-open-lectures"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}