Legotecture

I first saw the Lego Architecture series when I was hanging around in Chicago and checking out the ridiculously overpriced gift shop at the top of the Sears Tower. Yeah, I know it’s called Willis now, but I can’t take that name seriously because it makes me think of this.

Above we have Rockefeller Center in its Modern/Deco style. I really like this.

Another very clean, almost too-clean, reproduction, the Guggenheim Museum.

This is the Brandenburg Gate. While I appreciate the fact that this series focuses on form, I really would appreciate a bit more possibility for detail, especially for the price. Note the Quadriga on top of the gate, it looks like incomplete plumbing. I really think such important structures deserve a little more detail, don’t you? This unit below is simply titled Waterfall and riffs on the Frank Lloyd Wright effort.

Legos and other construction kits are a good way to fiddle with ideas and in this case get to the bare essence of a design or structure.

Above you see Burj Khalifa, formerly Burj Dubai. “Burj” is Arabic for “tower”. If you squint and look really closely you can see Tom Cruise running around on the outside of the building.

Aha! Lego architecture with just slightly more detail. Buildings and photos by Adam Tucker. From Chicago: left to right: Chicago Spire, Marina, 7 South Dearborn (planned/in limbo), Hancock, Trump and Willis (formerly Sears).