Glasgow gets built out of lego

A local engineer had designed a Glasgow Lego set


Glasgow is going to be immortalised forevermore in Lego.

Engineer Peter Johnson recreated the Glasgow skyline and submitted it to the Lego Ideas website.

Whilst it doesn’t feature some of the highlights of a students skyline (Viper and The Boyd Orr are both notably absent) there are some iconic Glaswegian building included in the set.

The old tenement building we’ve all lived in at some point. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum for when we’re feeling cultured or just want a warm place to read with aesthetically pleasing benches. And of course Hogwarts itself, the main University of Glasgow building. The GOMA (it’s near Zizzi’s in town, seriously go and visit) and the grand old duke with his traffic cone gown headgear, a symbol of all that’s great about Glasgow.

The Finnieston Crane, Squinty Bridge (Clyde Arc) and the Science Centre Tower are things you’ll have to actually leave the most studenty parts of the westend to see (or *gasp* actually cross the river) but are still well worth inclusion in this noble collection of brown and grey blocks.

The design needs to get 10,000 supporters to be considered for production, but with a year to reach this goal and nearly 1000 already backing the idea and Glasgow uni encouraging its students and staff to vote we have high hopes that we’ll soon be able to have one all of our own.