The Shard
Free
London’s tallest building dazzles over the city every festive season and 2025 is no different. This year, The Shard’s uppermost 20 storeys will be illuminated with lights inspired by paintings by Gustavo Zuluaga Villegas, a Colombian-born amateur artist and a member of the Shard’s housekeeping team. The 65-year-old amateur painter has worked at the Shard for eight years, but in his spare time creates vibrant abstract impressionist paintings, depicting everything from horses to still life to abstract shapes. The lighting display inspired by Zuluaga Villegas’s work will feature a range of sequences from striking rainbow flashes, to a reindeer darting across the skyline.
Best for: admiring the London skyline
Switch on date: November 25
