An urban explorer has gained access inside an iconic city centre landmark that’s lain abandoned for the best part of a decade.
Known for the huge ‘People Make Glasgow’ slogan that covers much of its frontage, the 14-storey Met Tower in North Hanover Street is one of the city’s most recognisable buildings.
Yet, the post-war tower, which was formerly the College of Building and Printing tower, was vacated around the time of the Commonwealth Games in 2014 and has been off limits to the public ever since.
But that hasn’t stopped avid urban explorer J T, who captured footage of his tour of the vacant office block and posted it to his YouTube channel.
In the video, which contains some strong language, J T makes his way up one of the main stairwells to explore the tower’s eerily quiet and dimly-lit corridors and studios.
The footage reveals that the power is still on, despite the building having been mothballed for so long, while some areas show evidence of vandalism from others having gained entry over the past eight years.
In the last part of the clip, J T eventually makes it to the roof where he admires the view over central Glasgow and points towards the Met Tower’s 21st century replacement at Townhead.
The YouTuber revealed that he was able to gain access to the tower through a broken window on the first floor of an adjacent building.
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In an announcement earlier this year it emerged that the 58-year-old Met Tower had been acquired by Bruntwood SciTech from property developer Osborne+Co for £16.2 million.
A report released on Thursday revealed that a £30 million investment programme is being planned for the Glasgow landmark, which aims to transform it into a hub for “tech and digital businesses”.
The College of Building and Printing tower was opened on April 24, 1964 by Labour Party leader Harold Wilson.
The huge structure took four years to build and was one of Glasgow's first commercial high-rise buildings.
