We were inspired by an exercise in which the City Council asked us what made a great international city and, thinking of Barcelona, I rather facetiously said “a half finished Cathedral” and was never able to shift the idea that we should half build a cathedral in Birmingham.

Unfortunately days before the deadline James May from Top Gear launched his life-size lego house project and I’m convinced that is the only reason why the region now has a large Lady Godiva parade in Coventry to lookforward to (obviously it’s not but it helps my pride to think of it like this).