Rendering Reveals: Here Now, Bjarke Ingels' Blocky Plans for the Lego Museum

Thursday, June 6, 2013, by Amy Schellenbaum

Rendering via Lego

When word got out that BIG, the firm of wacky architecture it-boy Bjarke Ingels, was tapped to design the world's very first Lego museum, a 82,000-square-foot homage to the planet's premier architect starter-kit, Ingels himself perhaps summarized the situation the most succinctly: "It will be the best museum ever." Well, Lego just released the preliminary renderings, and the white, blocky structure does indeed look rather awesome; in fact, it makes it all the more clear that the Danish architect's penchant for stark, funny-shaped (a technical term) buildings is kind of made for a brand like Lego.

Inside the geometric form, to open in Bilund, Denmark: exhibition areas, a café, a Lego store, and a public square. Construction is slated to wrap in 2016, so there's still a year or two until we all need to start looking into airfare.

· The right look for Lego House [Lego via Gizmodo]
· All Bjarke Ingels coverage [Curbed National]
· All Lego coverage [Curbed National]

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