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In 2006 a project came up in Copenhagen. Halmtorvet, a district in Copenhagen best known for scantily clad ladies in the streets late at night, was identified as the target for urban renewal. Bjarke's plan was that the Benzons Fabrikker should be turned into the LEGO Towers.He built the project on the LDD platform and it took him two days to build the project. He then sent through his order to the LEGO Factory services and few weeks after he received his box in the mail. Without further ado, he began building his LEGO Towers project and after 2 days it became reality as a "mini building" (see: http://www.big.dk/ and click on the square over the LEGO name).The successful experience sparked his imagination so the building is to be showcased in New York at the Storefront Gallery on Oct. 2nd in the scale 1:50, in other words approx. 2 meters wide, 2 meters deep and 3 meters tall containing 250.000 bricks. The building will be returned to Denmark and in the fall of 2008 it will be exhibited at the Danish Centre for Architecture. The "LEGO Towers" has already received a lot of attention on a number of blogs and it even made it into a late night television show in Denmark DR2 – "Den 11. Time" a program known for unpredictable direction and humor, hosted by Mikael Bertelsen. Please check out the following links: http://somethingrotten.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/and-then-god-created-lego/

in http://portal0937.miniancora.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=61


archiCentral

27 Dec 08

LEGO Towers // Copenhagen // Denmark // Bjarke Ingels Group



LEGO Towers is a proposal for a residential, retail and hotel development in Copenhagen.

‘Copenhagen is called the City of Towers, and the historic skyline is populated with adventurous 18th century spires and towers. Since modernism we have added only rational and functionalistic but dull and repetitive towers to the skyline, creating a public critique against high rise buildings.(…)’

More info on BIG’s website.

in http://www.archicentral.com/lego-towers-copenhagen-denmark-bjarke-ingels-group-2470/comment-page-1/

MAIS INFO

http://www.big.dk/projects/lego/lego.html