The News Building (London) The News Building (London) The News Building is a 17-storey office block in the London Bridge area of London that forms part of the Shard Quarter development. It houses all of News UK's London operations, including "The Times", "The Sunday Times", "The Sun", "The Wall Street Journal", Dow Jones and HarperCollins. It was designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, who also designed The Shard across the piazza, and was financed by Qatar, which is behind the Shard Quarter development. The News Building was known as The Place and The Baby Shard until 2014, when its name was changed. It
London Bridge Is Falling Down popular culture. There is considerable variation in the lyrics of the rhyme. The most frequently used first verse is: <poem>London Bridge is falling down, Falling down, falling down. London Bridge is falling down, My fair lady.</poem> In the version quoted by Iona and Peter Opie in 1951 the first verse is: <poem>London Bridge is broken down, Broken down, broken down. London Bridge is broken down, My fair lady.</poem> The rhyme is constructed of quatrains in trochaic tetrameter catalectic, (each line made up of four metrical feet of two syllables, with the stress falling on the first syllable in a pair;