Two men stand on a cherry picker to guide the crane lowering the final — and thinnest — multi-storey layer on top of the Cheesegrater building, while people in hi-viz and hard hats watch from below.
Standing at 5.4 metres — about one 40th the size of the real thing — it took 12 model builders, 1,162 hours and 191,000 bricks to recreate the building in Lego. It then travelled almost 14,000 miles on a shipping container to be finished on site, here at Legoland Windsor, where the park’s London “Miniland” is being given a modern makeover.
Ramesh Ganeson, vice-president of Legoland Windsor, towers over the new London scene
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE
Installation, then, is a nail-biting moment. “Suddenly it’s [floating] in the sky, so you close your eyes,” says Paula Young, a creative manager at Legoland.
The Cheesegrater —
