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Ai Weiwei’s first design exhibition celebrates “how life goes on” after the pandemic

April 5, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Hundreds of thousands of cannonballs, donated Lego bricks and a marble toilet roll feature in Making Sense, the first design-focussed exhibition by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at London’s Design Museum. Showing a range of new and historical works spread across a single gallery, Ai Weiwei: Making Sense opens at the Design Museum this Friday and marks

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CF Møller Architects arranges Lego campus around circular yellow atrium

April 5, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Lego campus in Billund by CF Møller Architects

The headquarters building for toy company Lego, which was designed by Danish architecture firm CF Møller Architects, has officially opened in Billund, Denmark. Built near the company’s BIG-designed Lego House visitor centre, the 54,000-square-metre office block contains workspaces for 2,000 employees. CF Møller Architects designed the headquarters to incorporate Lego’s core values of “imagination, fun,

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Billund carpark covered with roads from Lego play sets

December 23, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Lego car park in Billund by CEBRA 

Danish architecture studio CEBRA has designed the facades of a car park for Lego in Billund, Denmark, which features a road layout based on the toy company’s City road plates. The facades, created by CEBRA, cover a five-storey car park designed by architecture studio Ravn Arkitektur, which will be used by people working in the Lego offices and visiting the

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CF Møller Architects incorporates giant bricks in facades of Lego office

November 1, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Billund Lego campus phase one by C F Møller Architects

CF Møller Architects has completed two office buildings on the Lego campus in Billund, Denmark, which include giant building blocks in the facades. Located a few streets away from the Lego’s visitor centre by BIG, the two office buildings mark the completion of the first phase of the toy company’s 52,000-metre-squared headquarters. Århus studio CF

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Lego Apple Park took its builder two years to complete

October 1, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

This mini version of Apple’s Cupertino campus is made entirely of Lego, and was modelled on drone footage taken during construction. The Lego Apple Park depicts the 175-acre (71-hectare) expanse of California’s Santa Clara Valley at 1/650th of its real size. The model includes Apple’s Foster + Partners-designed ring-shaped headquarters, ancillary buildings, and large areas

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BIG completes Lego visitor centre shaped like a stack of building blocks

October 3, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Bjarke Ingels’ firm BIG has unveiled its new visitor centre for toy company Lego – a stack of huge building blocks, featuring brightly coloured patios that are home to a submarine, a shark and a camel. A pair of “pixelated” staircases allow visitors to scale the exterior of the Lego House to reach the patios, which are

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