For Sale in New York For Rent in New YorkLego Landmarks: Elegant New ‘Architecture Skyline’ Collection The phrases ‘adult toys’ and ‘city blocks’ take on a different meaning when applied to architecturally sophisticated LEGO sets like these, enabling you to make your own miniature replicas of the cityscapes including the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Berlin TV Tower, St. Mark’s Basilica and much more. The Architecture Skyline Series explores the most famous architectural achievements of three cities: New York, Venice and Berlin. These aren’t your ordinary blank slate LEGO bricks, from which all manner of creations can spring, but rather very specific pieces for very specific structures. With the NYC package, you’ll get the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Statue of Liberty and Flatiron Building as well as the brand new One World Trade Center. Berlin includes the Reichstag, Victory Column, Deutsche Bahn Tower, Berlin TV Tower and Brandenburg Gate.
The Venice model will give you St. Mark’s Basilica and Campanile, Rialto Bridge, St. Theodore and the Winged Lion of St. Mark, and the Bridge of Sighs. LEGO has been teasing the release of these sets on Facebook for weeks, and has now revealed that they’ll be available on an unnamed date in January 2016. Follow the company’s Facebook page if you want to be among the first to find out so you can snatch up your own box. These upcoming sets arrive on the heels of a stunning model of the Louvre in Paris, as well as LEGO’s Architecture Studio, which offers 1210 white and transparent bricks to design and build the architecture of your imagination. Check out the LEGO Architecture series for other classic structures, like Rome’s Trevi Fountain and the Lincoln Memorial. Chicago's skyline to be sold in Lego set Chicago's towering skyline is shrinking — to just four buildings. The city's iconic landmarks, which provide the sprawling backdrop for major city events, including the Taste of Chicago and Lollapalooza, can soon be built in miniature using Lego bricks.
Lego will introduce a 444-piece Chicago skyline set for $39.99 as part of its Lego Architecture Skyline series. The Chicago set will feature building blocks for four skyscrapers: Willis Tower, the John Hancock Center, the red CNA tower and the white Wrigley Building. It also features the Michigan Avenue Bridge and Millennium Park's Cloud Gate, commonly referred to as the Bean, according to a news release. The new set will be available on Dec. 11 in three Chicago-area stores: the Chicago Architecture Foundation retail shop at 224 S. Michigan Ave., the Lego store at Water Tower Place at 835 N. Michigan Ave., and the Legoland Discovery Center near Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg. It will be available online and in stores nationwide in January.Chicago joins other cities in the skyline series — including Berlin, Venice and New York, which features the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, One World Trade Center and the Flatiron Building. Additionally, individual landmarks are sold separately, including the White House, Eiffel Tower and Buckingham Palace.
The New York City kit features the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, the Statue of Liberty – recreated with a single minifigure – the Flatiron Building and One World Trade Center. For Venice, owners can recreate landmarks including the Rialto Bridge, St Mark's Campanile and St Mark's Basilica, while the set for the German capital features a tiny candy-striped TV Tower, alongside the Brandenburg Gate and miniature recreations of decorated sections of the Berlin Wall. All of the sets will include a booklet detailing the history of each landmark, and will be available from January 2016 with a reported price tag between $30 (£20) and $60 (£40). "We hope that these sets will appeal to not only people living in these cities, but also city visitors and city dreamers," said Lego. The kits have been launched by Lego Architecture – an offshoot from the toy brand that releases building blocks aimed at architects and designers. A kit of monochrome bricks released in 2014 gave builders access to 76 unique components, designed to let users create their own miniature architectural masterpieces.
The building blocks have developed a fan base among architects and designers. Steven Holl and Bjarke Ingels used them to contribute to a fictional cityscape, commissioned by artist Olafur Eliasson. Ingels had previously said the bricks were the ultimate tool for testing architectural ideas, describing their proportions as "the golden ratio of architecture". Architect Winy Maas of MVRDV also used Lego blocks to create 676 miniature towers that were shown at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale.$49.99Buy It Now watching | View DetailsCondition:NewTime left:12d 4h 50mItem location:Kentuckyby Nicole Jewell, 05/19/16 Talk about the building blocks of a bright future. Last weekend, architects from major firms such as BIG, SHoP, HWKN and Bernheimer Architects were paired with students from the Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction to create miniature buildings using LEGO bricks. Working with the architects, the young designers used monochromatic and transparent building blocks from LEGO's Architecture Studio series to whip up new NYC landmarks based on their own designs.