-John.LEGO wrote: The Copenhagen Experiments ...is the headline of a dream come true.The Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has been building with LEGO bricks for as long as he can remember and here our story begins. 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” (check: http://www.big.dk/ and click on the square with 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/20 ... ated-lego/
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/lego-towers/ ... oplay=true
http://www.designerblog.it/post/1532/le ... gels-group
http://davidreport.com/blog/
http://www.dezeen.com/2007/09/10/lego-t ... els-group/
Den 11. time - DR2linkIt is motivating and exciting to see the result of great teamwork between the LEGO Group and BIG, particularly how an innovative architect can merge the virtual and physical LEGO experience in a completely new context. For more info please contact Camilla Torpe (camilla.torpe@lego.com) or Helle Winding (helle.winding@lego.com) Few words about Bjarke IngelsThrough a series of award-winning design projects and buildings, Bjarke Ingels has created an international reputation as a member of a new generation of architects that combine shrewd analysis, playful experimentation, social responsibility and humour.
In 2004 he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for the Stavanger Concert House and the following year he received the Forum Award for the VM houses. Recently he has been nominated for the prestigious Mies van der Rohe Award for the Maritime Youth Houses and VM as well as the International Iakov Chernikhov Prize.
Alongside his architectural practice Bjarke Ingels has been a visiting professor at Rice University's School of Architecture and in spring 2007 Bjarke Ingels will be the visiting professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.
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