"So what of Thursday's bombastic celebration of the Shard's arrival on the London skyline? It too has drawn Unesco's ire for intruding on the Tower of London and Parliament Square. It will boast its hugeness with lights and lasers, and publicists will dismiss its critics as fuddy-duddies and aesthetes, proclaiming Shards for all time as angels of growth. I suffer from having found London's skyline a thing of beauty. The views from Parliament and Primrose hills, from the parks and from bridges over the Thames offered a vista that allowed the eye to spread, with no part dominating the whole. Even St Paul's did not crush its neighbours but floated above them at just twice their height." - M F

Don't like it, don't like the Gherkin or Canary Wharf either - Halil

I like its design but I don't like its location, as the article said it would have looked better in Dubai. Generally I am not a huge fan of skyscrapers. Canary Wharf is just scary. - M F

The Gherkin has grown on me. Haven't seen the Shard yet although I've seen lots of tweets about it tonight. - Spidra Webster

Makes me think of http://listverse.com/2010... - Amit Patel

I like some of the buildings in that list, not McDonalds though but I like the Eiffel Tower a lot - M F

For most of the buildings on that list, the complaints were because of how badly they fit in with (or considered) their surroundings at the time. Washington in 1833 was very very different from Washington now, for example. In some cases, the cities grew up around the huge architecture and they fit in more. In others, not. As much as I like some of Gehry's work, I think what he did to his house showed a lack of consideration for his neighbors and most people would not have been able to get the planning permission to make the changes he did in the first place. I'm sure Santa Monica probably granted him special favors you or I would not have been able to get. I'm sure in some cases the complaints about buildings on that list stemmed from the excess. Many wonder why there's always $ to build a Tower of Babel but no money for the people. - Spidra Webster

I mostly don't like Gehry's work. =P - Andrew C (see frenf.it)