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Bjarke Ingels' Lego House museum tops out in Billund, Denmark

Bjarke Ingels' Lego House museum tops out in Billund, Denmark

In Lego‘s hometown of Billund, Denmark, 3,000 residents came together to celebrate the topping out of the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) Lego House. Devoted to the international company, the buildings modular aesthetic is derived from the signature Lego toy bricks.

The 3,000 were invited on a tour of the Lego House construction site that, when finished, will be comprised of 21 enormous Lego bricks built on top of each other. So far, the structure has been a year in the making, and, despite dancing with a potentially cliché typology, BIG has artfully avoided designing a brick built “duck” of a building.

The building features what Ingels calls a “keystone”—its topmost mass—in the form of a oversized standard 2×4 Lego brick. This space will act as a social hub and experience center for the local community.

Rising just over 75 feet high and occupying a 2.9 acres, the predominantly white concrete structure will make use of many colorful terrace spaces, some of which feature green roofs as well as housing a central public square. The main feature of the Lego House will be four “play zones” for paying visitors. These zones, Lego said, “will offer guests unique Lego experiences, inviting them to use their minds as well as their hands.”

Within these spaces, users can engage and build with the Lego bricks, telling stories and expressing themselves through the block-based medium. In another zone, visitors will view the story of the Lego family, showcasing the development of the company and its products.

The Lego House is also one of the company’s contributions to the goal of making Billund the “Capital of Children.” (More info on that goal can be seen here.)

The last brick is due to be laid in mid-2017.

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