Every icon has a story to tell. A carpenter named Ole Kirk Christiansen lost his business and began to make
Since then, the Danish toy company LEGO has continued to contribute illusion, ideas and imagination to our days.
Not only has it been and is a world of fun and entertainment, but it has also managed to captivate many artists, photographers, engineers or architects that involve philosophy Lego at work, reinventing those tiny pieces (There are actually about 915 million shapes different from combining only six individual blocks) in works that go further than entertainment for the "little ones" of the house.
For many, the « Lego Ideas » already They are part of your daily life. Philosophy is actually scale any object we can find to a brand toy, being a perfect example of influence in the following video with a legendary Fiat 500.
But keep in mind that this company has arrived much further than we can think.
From the famous MIT, using LEGO blocks duly optically tagged, with the CityScope project, helps to analyze and understand through 3D representations and virtual reality, how they can influence a city different physical changes in the spaces.
Aspects such as traffic are measured, including the light that arrives to each dwelling or contamination according to the provisions of the different pieces that also makes it easier for any user you can collaborate and configure spaces according to your own vision on uses and densities to be able to analyze them later and collect data.
Italian artist and photographer Domenico Franco has wanted to dig up several of the most toys from home famous LEGO peru expanding them in volume and walking them through the streets of Rome with his work "LEGO outside of Legoland.”
The corners, emblematic architecture and urbanism of the famous city intertwine in surreal settings where the protagonist is the parked LEGO vehicle in the different spaces of the Italian capital.
From helicopters, motorhomes, a Lamborghini or a train, passing by the famous trailer truck of the brand, they park or circulate in front of some of the monuments most famous architectural buildings in the world.
The photographer Franco has digitally introduced a series of Legos vehicles in the urban landscapes of Italy.
A toy brick helicopter lands in the coliseum lands, a bulldozer parked next to a wax in works, a Formula 1 is thrown out of the truck or a caravan parked, are just some of the imaginative photographs of the artist. The objective, to transform ordinary contexts in extraordinary!
The influence of LEGO in wanting to enter and replicate the most important buildings and icons of the architecture has been a turning point for the company that has catapulted his image much further than any toy company .
From the LEGO architecture section, the portal offers HERE, apart from the sale of toys traditions that we all know and historical information of buildings that have been scaled, some posters to download for free that we they look really good.
New York City, Trevi Fountain, Tower Eiffel, Venice or Berlin among many others, represented with all the pieces that make up the game to build it.
But on a natural scale it has also had its influence remarkable. The artist Andrew Lewicki offered us the possibility of building our house with concrete blocks that perfectly imitate LEGO pieces .
They are real blocks, they even have the logo printed on them, of the same approximate size as the advertising pieces that we can find it in some department stores and shops along with favorite toys.
Or a real house built to size in England with no less than 3.3 million pieces and more than 1,000 people involved in a feat that surely required a lot of patience.
And it is not only on the outside, the entire interior of the housing and furniture are based on tiny pieces. Interior design in Lego format!
