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The BIG LEGO® House Reveal

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The design for BIG’s highly anticipated LEGO® “experience center” – a.k.a. The LEGO® House – has been released! Located in the heart of The Lego Group’s birthplace and home town of Billund, Denmark, the 7,600 square-meter building resembles “gigantic LEGO® bricks” that are “combined and stacked in a creative way to create an imaginative experience both outside and inside.”

True to form, the 30 meter-tall structure will feature several exterior and multi-level access points that will remain open year-long to its estimated 250,000 annual visitors. Aside from its roof-top gardens and 1,900 square-meter public square, attractions will include a series of exhibition areas showcasing the “past, present and future of the LEGO® idea”, a cafe and an unique LEGO® store.

Take a video tour through the building after the break…

Bjarke Ingles, founder of BIG stated: “It’s going to be looking at LEGO® from all its different aspects—LEGO® as an art form, its cultural impact. When we were doing the research for it [the LEGO® house], we realized, if you would consider it just an art museum, you would be able to fill it with so much user content of such a high quality…it is one of our great dreams at BIG that we are now able to design a building for and with the LEGO® group. I owe a huge personal debt to the LEGO® brick, and I can see in my nephews that its role in developing the child as a creative, thinking, imaginative human being becomes ever stronger in a world in which creativity and innovation are key elements in virtually all aspects of society.”

“BIG has designed a building that encapsulates what LEGO® play and LEGO® values are all about”, says Hans Peter Folmann, Marketing responsible for the LEGO® House and adds: “The creative use of the LEGO® brick shape is a true visualization of the systematic creativity that is at the core of LEGO® play, so we believe that this is the right look for the LEGO® House. And it simply looks amazing.”

Construction of the building is expected to begin in early 2014 and the LEGO® House will be inaugurated in 2016.

It will be built in collaboration between KIRKBI A/S, the LEGO® Foundation and the LEGO® Group, but the LEGO® Group will handle the daily operation of the LEGO® House once finished.

Reference: LEGO®

The BIG LEGO® House Reveal originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 05 Jun 2013.

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Denmark Builds World’s Longest LEGO Train Track

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Image courtesy of LEGO The Guinness World Record for “Longest Plastic Toy Train Track” goes to the 80 LEGO enthusiasts who gathered in a Danish gym. Construction of the track took about six hours, while it took four more hours for the train itself to travel the length of the track. What a suspense-filled event! …Continue Reading

Denmark Builds World’s Longest LEGO Train Track

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Image courtesy of LEGO The Guinness World Record for “Longest Plastic Toy Train Track” goes to the 80 LEGO enthusiasts who gathered in a Danish gym. Construction of the track took about six hours, while it took four more hours for the train itself to travel the length of the track. What a suspense-filled event! …Continue Reading

74 Empire State Buildings, 588 Taj Mahals, And Other Things You Can Build With All The Legos In The World

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Stowed away in giant plastic tubs, scattered on the floors of closets, and assembled into Star Wars X-Wings propped on boys’ dressers all around the world is a whole lot of…potential.  We’re talking about Legos here, the over-half-a-century-old, polychromatic plastic bricks that have experienced renaissance after renaissance in the past few years, many thanks to …Continue Reading

Real Or Rendering: Quirky Pedestrian Bridge, Made Out Of LEGO

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The footbridge is underrated. It really doesn’t get enough love, though we can’t figure out why. They’re necessary, functional, and economical, packing a lot of sculptural form in a neat, capsule-sized dose. Call them flyovers, elevated paths, people-movers, or whatever, we love them.

And we really like this new footbridge design by architect Michael Jantzen, who’s known for his eccentric designs (see this Transformer house for proof). This pedestrian bridge is particularly cool because it looks like it’s made out of LEGO. Seen from the roadway, that is, in elevation, the structure appears to be a large mass of the plastic bricks, with a stepped outline that could have been lifted from an 8-bit video game. According to Jantzen, the bridge, which is just a concept for now, can be made out of any material, though he’s thinking pre-cast concrete would be best.

More than that, Jantzen says the design reimagines what a footbridge can be. His version comprises three parallel rows; the outer two are undulating paths that sandwich a smooth, rolling ramp. “Those who want to exercise more vigorously while crossing the bridge, might want to take the stairs. Those on a bike, skateboard, or wheelchair, might choose to use the ramp.”

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Candelabro transparente de LEGO | Tobias Tostesen

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Tobias tøstesen trasciende la alegría inherente de los elementos estándar de LEGO para explorar su potencial infinito como un módulo para la iluminación. Presentado durante la Semana del Diseño de Milán 2013, la araña de piso a techo utiliza los ladrillos transparentes para ofrecer una mirada a través de la instalación de alumbrado incoloro, y prefiere utilizar la forma curva para capturar el resplandor cambiante del día, desde distintivo fresco croma a exclusivos tonos cálidos.

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Tøstesen hace que el módulo de LEGO más complejo si bien mantienen un diálogo con el mundo real de la arquitectura y el diseño, donde los ladrillos, a pesar de su ubicuidad, persisten en desafiar la creatividad humana y continuamente forjar nuevos caminos. Informado por la escasez de luz nórdica, la forma se caracteriza por una suavidad sutil que difiere de la luz de contraste de la sur. En este candelabro de LEGO mueve la luminosidad dinámica del día a lo largo de su forma de otra manera estandarizada.

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Candelabro transparente de LEGO | Tobias Tostesen

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Tobias tøstesen trasciende la alegría inherente de los elementos estándar de LEGO para explorar su potencial infinito como un módulo para la iluminación. Presentado durante la Semana del Diseño de Milán 2013, la araña de piso a techo utiliza los ladrillos transparentes para ofrecer una mirada a través de la instalación de alumbrado incoloro, y prefiere utilizar la forma curva para capturar el resplandor cambiante del día, desde distintivo fresco croma a exclusivos tonos cálidos.

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Tøstesen hace que el módulo de LEGO más complejo si bien mantienen un diálogo con el mundo real de la arquitectura y el diseño, donde los ladrillos, a pesar de su ubicuidad, persisten en desafiar la creatividad humana y continuamente forjar nuevos caminos. Informado por la escasez de luz nórdica, la forma se caracteriza por una suavidad sutil que difiere de la luz de contraste de la sur. En este candelabro de LEGO mueve la luminosidad dinámica del día a lo largo de su forma de otra manera estandarizada.

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LEGO Artist Builds City Out Of 200,000 Individual LEGO Pieces

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No one, I repeat, no one can do LEGO like Mike Doyle can. We’ve previously spotlighted his Halloween-themed LEGO sculptures, which used approximately 130,000 of the famed plastic bricks to build large models of crumbling Victorian houses. Now, Doyle is back with a larger and much more ambitious project: Contact 1, the first entry in a series of thematically-linked works that celebrate “terrestrial contact events, spiritual beings and unique worlds.” Wait, whaaaa?

Doyle’s series will shed light on more elevate states of beings through the manically detailed, impressively constructed cities he has and continues to build. With Contact 1, he’s built an imaginary city of near Minas Tirith-like scale, complete with pixelated towers, forests, and waterfalls. It’s called Odan, home to an enlightened species that evolved from us but dropped the lousy inter-species killing thing, and it is dedicated solely to the development of its inhabitants cultural and spiritual needs. It also took Doyle 600 hours to assemble the huge 5 X 6 feet-wide project, which comprises 200,000 LEGO bricks and a whole lot of nonsense. Whether you buy into or are intrigued by Doyle’s conceptual backstory or not, his creation is stunning in many ways. Click through for more photos! 

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