Gallery: Exquisite Lego Versions of the World's Most Famous Buildings
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Adam Reed Tucker, one of only 14 Lego Certified Professionals in the world, has an exhibit up at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
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It features 13 of Tucker’s Lego structures, which are modeled after some of the world’s most famous architectural works, like the Museum of Science and Industry as its original building: the Palace of Fine Arts.
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His version of the Golden Gate Bridge is 60 feet long. It comprises 64,500 Lego bricks and took 260 hours to build.
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The Roman Colosseum made it as well.
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Add up the hours Tucker spent designing and building these structures, and you get upwards of 2,500 hours’ worth of work. He doesn’t use computer-modeling. That’s more than a year of 40-hour work weeks, spent recreating some of the world’s wonders by hand.
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Naturally, Tucker recreated the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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Tucker is a former practicing architect, and his contribution to Lego is more technical; his pieces are more about engineering than pure imagination. In the exhibit, each building requires its own carefully constructed joists and buttresses to stay upright. The roller coaster will even run simulated rides.
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*Brick by Brick* opened March 10, and will run until February 2017.
