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I’ve found more information and pictures about this exibit.
For most of the models shown in the posted gallery, I recognized the real life
sites they represented. For instance, that middle age city Daan Bargerbos
mentioned, is Mont-Saint-Michel in the bay between Normandy and Brittany,
France. After that I quickly realised that these locations are all sites on the
Unesco World Heritage List. Some webdigging based on this knowledge, revealed
that the exhibition was called “Piece of Peace, World Heritage Exhibit Build
with LEGO”. First half of October 2003 it was shown in a PARCO department store
in Shibuya, and frist half of November 2003 it run in the Nagoya PARCO Gallery.
According to this blog the exhibit toured the
other PARCO department stores throughout Japan afterwards.
There is a special website about the event, all in Japanese, but on
this page all
16 links below the Taj Mahal pictures takes you to individual pages that include
a picture of the real life site as well as a picture of the LEGO model.
For the more lazy viewers I’ve compiled a list of links, each labeled with the
official World Heritage list description. These link to the large pictures
(600x450 pixel) of the LEGO models directly. In some cases I’ve added what I
believe to be a more familiar description behind the link. I assume that for
most viewers the Japanese sites are less well known as the others, I’ve added a
separate “info”-link with each of these in case you want to learn more.
Westminster
Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret’s Church - London, UK (in front
are the Houses of Parlament and Big Ben)
Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay - France
Acropolis -
Athens, Greece
Piazza del
Duomo, Pisa, Italy (the ‘Leaning Tower’ of Pisa)
Memphis and
its Necropolis - the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur, Egypt (Khafre’s
Pyramid and the Sphinx)
Nubian
Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae, Egypt (statue in front of Temples of
Ramses II at Abu Simbel)
Taj Mahal -
Uttar Pradesh, India
The Great
Wall - China
Angkor -
Cambodia
Statue of
Liberty - New York, USA
Historic
Sanctuary of Machu Picchu - Peru
Rapa Nui
National Park - Chile (Easter Island statues)
Historic
Monuments of Ancient Kyoto - Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities, Japan (Golden
Pavilion of the Rokuon-ji Temple, or Kinkaku-ji)
info
Buddhist
Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area - Nara, Japan (The five-storey pagoda)
info
Historic
Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama, Japan -
info
Itsukushima
Shinto Shrine - Miyajima, Japan -
info
For more information about the World Heritage List and their descriptions of the
sites: http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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