The Shard: A Skyscraper For Our Post-9/11 World?

  The Shard, by Renzo Piano, towers over the London skyline. When the Twin Towers came down 11 years ago (almost to the day), the world was struck numb. Even New Yorkers, who felt the trauma rumble through their veins, couldn’t get past the initial disbelief: how can this be happening? How can something so big, so invincible,actually be so vulnerable?…