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10 Famous Buildings You Can Recreate With LEGOs, Thanks To A+ Awards Juror Adam Reed Tucker

January 25, 2013


Chicago buildings - Lego Architecture - Adam Reed Tucker

The Henry Ford / Living History magazine

Adam Reed Tucker is a grown man with a seemingly childlike ambition: to build a world out of LEGOs. As one out of only 11 LEGO Certified Professionals, Tucker has made it his mission to work with and explore the possibilities of the little plastic bricks, regarding them not as toys but, as he told Living History magazine, his “artistic medium.”

According to an interview with The Chicago Tribune, Tucker began his career designing luxury residences, but when the housing market/entire economy started to sink, he found himself out of a job and back at home with his parents. He tinkered around, brought some samples to a LEGO convention, and caught the company’s attention. Now, he runs a company called Brickstructures that’s contracted to design kits for LEGO. And he’s just signed on to be a part of Architizer’s A+ Awards jury, where he’ll bring his imagination and boundless drive to reenvision the limits of architecture. The deadline for entry to the awards is today, so get your entry in ASAP. Click through to see 10 classic buildings Tucker has reworked for LEGO.Tucker currently has an exhibition of his work at the Henry Ford Museum (two innovators, two drastically different tools) in Dearborn, MI, which runs through February 24th. Can’t make it out to Dearborn? These are some of his creations that you can make yourself, if you have between $40 and $200 and an afternoon to kill.

1. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater

via LEGO.com

2. Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye

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via LEGO.com

3. The Willis (neé Sears) Tower

via LEGO.com

4. Rockefeller Center

via Eurobricks

5. The Guggenheim Museum

via LEGO.com

6. The Empire State Building

via LEGO.com

7. The Space Needle

via LEGO.com

8. John Hancock Center

via Cuddly Sheep Designs

9. Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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10. The White House

via LEGO.com


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by Alanna Okun

posted in A+ awards

tagged A+ Awards, adam reed tucker, Architizer A+ Awards, fallingwater, Guggenheim Museum, LEGO, lego construction, legos, Rockefeller Center, Sears Tower, toys, white house

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