LEGO Architecture Series

What architectural wonder would you like to see as the next LEGO® Architecture model? Inspire us by voting for some of these suggestions. Vote here!

Nathan Sawaya

Nathan Sawaya, a sculptor working with LEGO bricks, talks about how his work and its role as outsider art vs. art that belongs in established galleries on Ogilvy's Create or Else channel.

blog wunderlust: 30 November 2009

green architecture, design and façades | LEGO challenge (video) | matching art and architecture in Miami | the banality of evil fashion | floating among the stars | twitter's office | fabric re-hab

another preview of My Playground (what is it about architecture documentaries and the use of the word "my")

blog wunderlust: 23 November 2009

The blog wunderlust is a weekly round up summarizing the architectural highlights, news and web links, that don't otherwise fit the format of this blog. If you have any to share feel free to drop me an email.

chocolate mies | the Impact of the Bauhaus | another modern dog house or prefab for pets | the wall vanishes | the work of MC Escher in LEGO | old school meets high tech | a fine line between drawing and sculpture | The Architect as Totalitarian | Zaha meets the Pontif

Architects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but that if God ever gets up, they take the chair

Karen Moyer

blog wunderlust: 16 November 2009

I live in a Steven Holl |  Palace of Grace | LEGO style | the work of Thom Mayne | vertical farms don't work |  broken glass | the women of the Bauhaus | the rolling house aka a reality show waiting to happen | an increased demand for construction software | KPF rips at the seams 

check out an interactive floor plan of the Shed House in the Isle of Skye

To make a house, you grab a fist of air and then you hold it with walls

Persian Proverb

blog wunderlust: 26 October 2009

Does architecture have a shoe fetish? | monuments from the old country | cheap furniture quiz | 5 bridges | Michael Arad Interview | a temple of trash | before there was Sketch Up | Civic vandalism | concrete mushrooms | affordable housing? | and now the LEGO kitchen | the future, underground | cool parking garages | no shoes and barefooted dentists

also take a look at some 3d renders of the Farnsworth house by Peter Guthrie

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.

- Walter Gropius

blog wunderlust: 17 July 2009

LEGO replicas | Towards a New Urban Paradigm | 100 Abandoned Houses | the price of a Corb | for the children of architects | shed of the year | Small Food Architect | paper Architect | Planning win beats a Pritzker

blog wunderlust: 29 May 2009

LEGO architecture | Kaufman calls it quits | mid-century modern doll house | Reef benches... coming to a high school near you | One day, two people, three tools | The Changing Rules for Urban Development in Spain

blog wunderlust: 22 May 2009

RIBA 2009 winners | from Lord to a Prince, Foster snags Spain's Asturias award | the Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO Collection | 100 Spaces Competition | zaha shoes part deux, previously | How Bob Dylan affected my architecture | AIBC 2009 winners

also take a look at the new materialious

blog wunderlust: 6 March 2009

And the Oscar goes to | Nouvel colloboration| architects like LEGO | architects like cars | architects like music too | Travel & Leisure Design Awards | Wonky Math | Ecohouse Competition | Eco-sub-urban... unlikely combination |

blog wunderlust: 02 September 2008

Lebbeus in the Times | the beauty of death | top 10 non-Architects | Birds Nest by LEGO | smack the pony - architects |mobile living...in a garbage truck | plan in photos | 2001 | The Architect - dEUS | Chandigarh to open Le Corbusier centre | more on Corb |

the return of Nigel Coates | Blue Sky on Canal Street | One minute carbon calculator | funky stairs | Milan canopy | happy belated Earth day | Paper Spiral Island lamps by David Trubridge | Futuristic LEGO city | Unravelling the spaghetti | the slow home: a ten step process via arktek

LEGO celebrates 50 years

(click on image for a larger view)

LEGO Towers by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)

see also todays feature on archinect with an interview with the architects' principal

Interesting site featuring miniature cityscapes made from LEGO, via designboom