The Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO Bricks exhibit opened at the Discovery Centre in late September. The creator of the exhibit, Ryan McNaught, and his team have created twenty 14-foot skyscrapers out of lego bricks including New York’s Empire State Building, China’s Shanghai Tower and Toronto’s CN Tower.

The exhibit has already toured throughout Australia and parts of the United States, and the opening at Discovery Centre is the Canadian debut for the exhibition. Visitors are able to explore the different architectural wonders, but it also generates an interest for children in what McNaught calls education by stealth, “kids are thinking that they’re coming to play with Lego, but they’re actually going to learn some really important skills, things like how important engineering is in absolutely everything that we do today”.

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