University of Glasgow Library, Glasgow

£45.00

A Brutalist treasure, finely detailed in concrete by Spaceplay.

University of Glasgow Library, Glasgow

Name: University of Glasgow Library, Glasgow
Brand: Spaceplay
SKU: MINI_084
Price: 45.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

£45.00

Solid Cast-Concrete Miniature Model
Size: 7.5cm wide, 5cm wide, 6.6cm deep
Scale: 1:1000 (approx)

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Hold onto your Glasgow years, with a model that keeps your University Library memory clear.

Made to order and shipped within 30 days

Designed and made in my UK studio

Comes gift-boxed for the perfect concrete gift

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Building Information

Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Architect: William Whitfield
Completed: 1968
Status: In use, university library and art gallery

Brief Overview:
The University of Glasgow Library was designed by William Whitfield as part of the university's expansion during the 1960s. Its 12-storey tower became an immediate landmark on the Glasgow skyline and remains one of the largest academic libraries in Europe. Connected to the library is the Hunterian Art Gallery, home to one of Scotland's most important collections of art and artefacts. Together they form a major example of post-war educational architecture, combining monumental concrete forms with spaces dedicated to learning, research, and culture.

Making my concrete model

I love this building for its clarity. It is all rhythm and stance: long horizontal window bands, a lifted podium, then that separate tower holding everything steady. Capturing it as a model meant chasing the proportions between the main slab and the service tower, and keeping the bridge connections legible at a smaller scale. I iterated the form to make sure it still reads as Anniesland in one glance, with the same sense of height and presence.

A small cast of a Glasgow tower that still anchors the west end skyline.

University of Glasgow Library, Glasgow

If you revised on the upper floors of the library, this University of Glasgow Library miniature concrete model will bring back the view. William Whitfield's 1968 library in the West End is one of the largest academic libraries in Europe and is joined to the Hunterian Art Gallery. Its concrete towers make it one of the most recognisable shapes on the Gilmorehill skyline. This concrete model of the University of Glasgow Library captures that solid, monumental mass at 7.5cm, a quiet desk sculpture for a study or shelf. It's made for Glasgow graduates and staff, architects, and lovers of Brutalist architecture and Glasgow modernism, and it makes a graduation gift with real meaning. Hand-cast in solid concrete, it has the weight of the building and a surface of its own.