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Robert Leach
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12/09/2011 5:45 pm  

You must
have been in Copenhagen recently. Cool store, heh? Here's a picture I took last year with Fallingwater, the Farnsworth house, the Empire State building, the Guggenheim and the Seattle space needle. Amazing stuff.


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12/09/2011 5:53 pm  

Lego have also just released the
Robie House too
http://www.thecoolist.com/frank-lloyd-wright-lego-robie-house/


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13/09/2011 1:51 am  

I hate to be a
wet blanket, but with all due respect the architect is rolling over in his grave, as they say -- as would any designer whose work was so miserably interpreted.
What is the point of making special parts and pieces for the Guggenheim or Robie models, and still end up with a model so distant in form from the original design ? I can understand the compromises made in the Fallingwater example, which seems to be constructed from standard Lego pieces, though the result is still a clownish affair compared to the real thing.
It is beyond me to understand how the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation could pass on these pathetic monstrosities. (The Robie model is a handsome object -- it just isn't very much like the original. What's with those flat-topped roofs ??) Money, always in short supply at the Foundation -- which is charged with the responsibility of protecting and furthering the reputation and the work of the architect -- can be the only reason that they turned a blind eye to the deficiencies of these "toys."
Here are the original designs; judge for yourselves whether they are respectfully represented by the Lego products. The Guggenheim "model" in particular is incomprehensible to me . . .


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13/09/2011 2:45 am  

C'mon!
My picture's from a Lego store. It's for kids. Those models were directly across from a giant dragon and Hogwarts. I think it's great that they were exposing the kids to something outside of their normal cartoon/video game genre.


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13/09/2011 3:03 am  

It's a tribute
in toy form.
I'm, sure they could produce somemthing more accurate..at a price no-one could afford.
I loved Lego and its architectural possibilities as a kid, I can't help thinking I'd have loved this even more!


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13/09/2011 3:46 am  

Let us not forget, Wright's o...
Let us not forget, Wright's own son John created Lincoln Logs.


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13/09/2011 4:01 am  

Not really impressed, if...
Not really impressed, if they can make bionicles why not something more complex? Perhaps its a cost thing?
Anyway they seem so constrained, looks like some pieces only suit those models, its the potential thats so good about lego, not really whats on the front of the box. Let them have their imaginations...


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13/09/2011 4:23 am  

The image
immediately above shows what can -- and should -- be done with Legos. Aborted copies of historic architecture teach children false lessons. The fact that customized pieces were necessary to make the Wright Lego buildings shows that cost wasn't an issue in the design of those models. I can't think of a good reason for the insulting distortions that resulted.
Sorry -- you probably wouldn't want a portrait of your mother, making her look like Elmer Fudd, to be published and proclaimed -- I'm willing to bet ! Some of us cherish the original, whether it's a chair or a building, and are offended by ill-wrought knock-offs.


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13/09/2011 4:41 am  

It's akin to putting brass
armed services buttons and red, white, and blue stripes on an Eames lounge!


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13/09/2011 4:47 am  

Right -- and then
making the chair with square corners and three legs instead of five. Oh, and then sticking a photo of Charles Eames on the presentation -- a discovering that Eames's grandson gave it his blessing ! Shudder . . .


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14/09/2011 2:12 pm  

Heath
I'm Trumping your post. Check out this guy's efforts:
http://www.archdaily.com/167764/65000-legos-create-a-10-foot-tall-replic...


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14/09/2011 6:44 pm  

James May, LEGO house in Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey
Heath,
Thank you for the posting of the James May, LEGO house in Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey. Perhaps the people from Legoland in Windsor, Berkshire should ask the travellers from Essex who took the Henry Moore sculpture for help in moving this piece.
How about the Red blue Lego chair by Mario Minale for Droog.


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