Find Your Local Distributor We're sorry, currently there are no LEGO Education distributors in this country.Font size: A A A | Promotions & Latest News SHOPPING, DINING & ENTERTAINMENT HSBC Main Building, Hong Kong (1:265) Last Updated 2 years ago. Click "Updates" above to see the latest. “Many buildings are statements of confidence in the future, so they are inextricably linked to the political processes which generate their need, and some of that is really highly symbolic. The Bank was certainly no exception. It was a very considered move, as a vehicle to enhance the prosperity of that particular bank, which has since moved dramatically into the world league. But it was also a symbol of confidence in the future of the colony.” Norman Foster, lecture at Glasgow Royal Conference hall, 8 May 1997 Completed in 1985, HSBC Main Building has been and will always be a milestone in architecture history. The design has won it countless awards and an irreplaceable place in Hong Kong's famous Victoria Harbour skyline.
Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of this remarkable building by making it an official LEGO product! Authentic replica of the iconic structural bridges Lion statues at the Bank's entrance Famous Feng-Shui cannons on the top of the building Sunlight mirror suspended outside the building Hong Kong's famous tram, double-decker bus and taxi in the same 1:265 scale *Proposed product includes only HSBC Main Building, the other buildings in the main picture are for reference only.Graphic Designer Chun Yu has been a passionate Lego builder since an early age and last year he graduated to the Lego Technic series. Although he lacks an engineering background, he has excelled in Scania truck models. “I take photos of the actual vehicles for reference and even draw design blueprints,” he says. The Scania crane truck is his third creation following a fire truck and a tractor unit. This Scania G 480 crane truck took more than one month to build using over 3,500 Lego bricks and pieces as well as ten mini motors in order to remotely control the truck, crane and tailgate.
The movable tailgate is unprecedented in Lego. “That was particularly challenging but it gives me great pleasure to overcome challenges and besides it’s lots of fun.” Chun Yu recently visited Scania Hong Kong to demonstrate the truck in person and amazed everyone. He looks forward to building more Scania creations in different applications. See the Lego truck in action here.Yau Tsim Mong district and Victoria Harbour have been recreated in LEGO, currently exhibiting at City Gallery (next to City Hall). “‘City Impressions @ Tsim Sha Tsui’ will take you on an interesting journey back to yesterday, through today. Revealed in the exhibition are maps, photos, plans, simulated images together with colourful plastic brick models of Tsim Sha Tsui.” Running until June 17th, this ‘plastic brick model‘ event is clearly ‘unofficially’ LEGO-related, but is worth a visit if around Central, plus it’s free. There are two exhibits – the first shows TST in the early 20th century – a busy scene of hawkers, rickshaws and ‘hotdog’ buses set around the old Kowloon Station on the waterfront.
The second depicts the same area as it looks today (thus leaving visitors to ponder the eternal question: ‘Is it me, or is everything shit now?‘) Both scenes include a huge rubber duck, which is docks in the harbour today. See also: Hong Kong in Miniature. Even the great harbour swim is included…This group is for people interested in Lego® Serious Play® Meet Lego® Serious Play® friends and facilitators and over a pile of bricks experience Lego® Serious Play®. Learn by doing, letting your hands think for you and refine or build your skills in using Lego® Serious Play® in the challenges you face. "You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than you can from a lifetime of conversation" – Plato Additional Information on Lego® Serious Play® An excellent book, "Building a Better Business Using the Lego Serious Play Method" (available at Amazon) sets out the history, core ideas and theoretical underpinning of Lego® Serious Play®.
It is an easy read, and helps explain why the Lego® Serious Play® method is so powerful. LEGO produced an excellent Open Source guide. It's a 42 page PDF and it describes the basic principles and philosophy. Read more about the method and background to Lego® Serious Play® on the Lego website. is a forum of just over 1000 members. It is the place to go to for information on training and certification. Please note, Lego® Serious Play® is owned by by LEGO who maintain all intellectual property rights in and to the Lego® Serious Play® methodology as well as Lego® Serious Play® materials. This MeetUp group is run with enthusiasm by two trained Lego® Serious Play® facilitators. We don't work for Lego, and claim no ownership of the brilliant ideas LEGO created. (Read full trademark guidelines). Interlego AG v Tyco Industries Inc ([1989] AC 217, also known informally as the Lego case or the Lego brick case) was a case in copyright law that originated in Hong Kong that eventually went before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the United Kingdom.
The plaintiff, Interlego AG, sued the defendant, Tyco Industries, for copyright infringement of its Lego bricks. However, it had previously registered its design. Under section 10 of the Copyright Act 1956, the right to protection as a registered design and copyright were not cumulative rights. The copyright was also a stronger right than the right to protection as a registered design. It had a longer duration. Thus the plaintiff also moved for the court to determine that its bricks did not qualify for design protection under section 10 of the Copyright Act, so that they could qualify for copyright protection. To do so, the court had to apply a test to determine whether the bricks comprised a degree of aesthetic appeal, above the purely functional elements of their design, which would cause them to qualify to be registered designs. To extend protection under the Copyright Act, the plaintiff argued that it had made revisions to its design drawings, and that as such they comprised original artistic works.
The Copyright Act gave extensive protection to such drawings, including defining the making of an object from such a drawing an infringement of copyright, or that copying an object directly, without reference to its design drawings, constituted infringement of the copyright in the drawings. The court held that the bricks qualified for registered design protection, and thus did not qualify for copyright protection.[2] Lord Oliver wrote as follows:[3] Inevitably a designer who sets out to make a model brick is going to end up by producing a design, in essence brick shaped. There is clearly scope in the instant case for that argument that what gives the Lego brick its individuality and the originality without which it would fail for want of novelty as a registrable design is the presence of features which serve only the functional purpose of enabling it to interlock effectively with the adjoining bricks above and below The court further held that design drawings were a combination of both artistic and literary works.
The written matter on such a drawing comprised the literary matter, and the graphics the artistic matter. The only changes made to the drawings were alterations to some radii and to the dimensions of some elements. Take the simplest case of artistic copyright, a painting or a photograph. It takes great skill, judgement and labour to produce a good copy by painting or to produce an enlarged photograph from a positive print, but no-one would reasonably contend that the copy, painting, or enlargement was an "original" artistic work in which the copier is entitled to claim copyright. Skill, labour or judgement merely in the process of copying cannot confer originality. Lord Oliver held that to afford copyright protection on a copy of a work, "[t]here must in addition be some element of material alteration or embellishment which suffices to make the totality of the work an original work". He stated that such an alteration or embellishment must be "visually significant", and that it is insufficient simply for the alteration to convey "information".