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LEGO Burj Khalifa is not a tall story
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Thu, 26 May 2011 11:30:31 GMT
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LEGO Burj Khalifa is not a tall story.
From The National.ae May 26, 2011.
DUBAI - An architect who meticulously designed and built a 141,971-piece LEGO
sculpture of the Burj Khalifa wants the model to serve as an inspiration to
others.
The 2.7m tower of unglued plastic bricks went on display yesterday at Dubai
Mall.
It is the work of Adam Reed Tucker, an American who said he is on a “mission” to
change the way people see LEGO.
“Everything I do is with parts you can get in LEGO kits,” he said. “I want
people to look at the sculpture and to realise that if they had enough bricks,
they could build the same thing.”
Since the tower was commissioned just three weeks ago, Mr Reed Tucker has been
putting in 16-hour days, spending about 200 hours in total designing and
building it at his home in Chicago. “I design it all in my head and build it at
the same time,” he said.
Once ready, it was broken into 13 sections and sent to Dubai to be reassembled.
It is not his first Burj Khalifa. He has a 5.4m version of the world’s tallest
building among 14 other LEGO models in an exhibition in the National Building
Museum in Washington DC.
He has also designed a more modest retail version, with 208 components and
standing only 27.8cm tall, which went on sale yesterday in the Burj Khalifa’s At
the Top gift shop priced at Dh149 AED (USD $40). Staff at the shop said they had
sold 60 in the first hour alone.
Mr Reed Tucker said he hoped to create a “whimsical and playful marriage”
between the serious world of engineering and the childish realm of LEGO.
“I’m not 10 years old and I’m not playing with LEGO bricks like toys,” he said.
“I’m trying to show the world that as a human being grows, the role of a LEGO
brick changes with them.”
Mr. Reed Tucker, whose wife is pregnant, said that when his family expands the
boundaries of his workshop would be clearly defined. “There will be one area
where there’ll be daddy’s LEGO and another where there’s the child’s LEGO,” he
said.
thenational.ae
-end of report-
Note: LEGO Architecture Burji Kalifaa set #21008. A 2011 set is plan to be
released in June. Is available at Burj Khalifa retail boutique located in The
Dubai Mall. Will be available for purchase at LEGO brand retail stores,
LEGOLAND Stores and online.
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