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LEGO Announces Model of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House

LEGO Announces Model of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House

We've seen lots of incredible designs made from LEGO bricks lately - from a ten-foot-tall replica of Chicago’s Trump Tower to life-size animals at the Bronx Zoo. But now enthusiasts at home - who

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Sean Kenney Uses 65,000 LEGOS to Create a 10 Foot Tall Replica of the Trump Tower!

Sean Kenney Uses 65,000 LEGOS to Create a 10 Foot Tall Replica of the Trump Tower!

The Trump Tower may have been Kenney’s most difficult project to date, not taking into consideration its immense size. The actual building is covered with a skin of highly reflective glass, which blurs

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9 Green Design Books to Add to Your Recommended Reading List

9 Green Design Books to Add to Your Recommended Reading List

Check out these 9 must read green design books The Green Roof Manual The Small House Book Green Interior Design The Vertical Farm Design Revolution Container Atlas Prefab Architecture Cradle to

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Rainbow-Hued oLE KiRk Lego Lamps Cast Fascinating Shadows

Rainbow-Hued oLE KiRk Lego Lamps Cast Fascinating Shadows

While we’d never thought of it before, it turns out that our favorite building blocks also make for excellent lamp shades that cast fun patterns of shadow and light onto the surrounding

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Lifelike LEGO Animals Find a Home at The Bronx Zoo

Lifelike LEGO Animals Find a Home at The Bronx Zoo

It's always exciting when a zoo welcomes new members to its animal kingdom, and this month, New York City's Bronx Zoo announced more than a half a dozen new creatures! Even though they're placed in their

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Real Life Wall-E Made From LEGO Mindstorms & Motors!

Real Life Wall-E Made From LEGO Mindstorms & Motors!

If there is something that we can be sure of, it's that LEGOs really can be used to build just about anything. From computers and cameras to animals and robots, we've seen our favorite building blocks

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LEGO Commits to Using Only Environmentally Friendly Packaging

LEGO Commits to Using Only Environmentally Friendly Packaging

LEGO bricks have been an inspiring staple for blossoming young minds all over the world for over sixty years, and to continue carrying this tradition into the future the Danish company is incorporating

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Museo ABC: Renovated Madrid Factory Shines With a Glittering Mosaic Facade

Museo ABC: Renovated Madrid Factory Shines With a Glittering Mosaic Facade

Through extensive renovations the factory has been transformed into a cultural icon that celebrates the creative spirit of Madrid. The two wings of the existing building are now connected with a gorgeous

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Nathan Sawaya’s Bedroom Made of Legos is Terribly Uncomfortable

Nathan Sawaya’s Bedroom Made of Legos is Terribly Uncomfortable

Everything in the room, aside from the actual floor and walls, was made from LEGOs right down to the cello (which can actually be played). The drawers may look simplistic, but get this - they actually

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Nathan Sawaya Creates Incredible LEGO Sculptures of Conan O’Brien and Stephen Colbert

Nathan Sawaya Creates Incredible LEGO Sculptures of Conan O’Brien and Stephen Colbert

As you can see, Sawaya is somewhat of a LEGO art savant -- his New York studio is currently filled with 1.5 million colored bricks. He makes everything from human figures to architectural models to

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EspaiMGR Proposes Giant LEGO-like Structures to Enliven Downtown Valencia

EspaiMGR Proposes Giant LEGO-like Structures to Enliven Downtown Valencia

Discouraged by the eye sore of vacant lots in beautiful downtown Valencia, Bernat Ivars and Manuel Lopez, also known as EspaiMGR, have devised a plan to re-enliven the abandoned spaces. Entitled

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Artist Constructs Massive Spiral Out of 270,000 LEGOs in Amsterdam

Artist Constructs Massive Spiral Out of 270,000 LEGOs in Amsterdam

LEGOS aren’t just for kids anymore. Industrial designer Lene Ronsholt Wille has constructed an immense and elegantly curved spiral out of the children’s building block toys in Amsterdam. Called

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Brazil Breaks Chile’s Record for the World’s Tallest Lego Tower

Brazil Breaks Chile’s Record for the World’s Tallest Lego Tower

Here at Inhabitat, we've got a whole lotta Lego going on, but even we couldn't come close to Sao Paulo's love for the colorful building blocks. Breaking last year's record set by Chile, Brazil built the

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Fergie Wears Dress Made From Lego Blocks to Kids’ Choice Awards

Fergie Wears Dress Made From Lego Blocks to Kids’ Choice Awards

We thought we'd seen Lego blocks applied to just about every design out there, but leave it to Fergie to figure out a whole new way to make use of this age old fave. Debuting her new look at

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Incredible “Legotron, Mark I” Camera Made From Lego Blocks

Incredible “Legotron, Mark I” Camera Made From Lego Blocks

Building make-believe villages and ships with Lego blocks is child’s play for Alabama-based photographer Cary Norton — he recently completed a working 127mm f4.7 camera made entirely from

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Stilettos Embellished with Legos – Haute or Not?

Stilettos Embellished with Legos – Haute or Not?

We've seen Legos used to revamp kitchens and even repair city walls, but this is the first time we've seen them used to make shoes! Don't worry, it's not as uncomfortable as it sounds. Artist Finn Stone

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Make Your Own Wall Art With 3form’s Ditto Modules

Make Your Own Wall Art With 3form’s Ditto Modules

Who didn’t love playing with Legos and Construx as a kid? Now that we’ve grown up, 3form has made the adult equivalent: Ditto, a modular cross-shaped product that forms together to create partitions,

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Heart-Shaped Pendant Necklaces Upcycled from LEGO Blocks

Heart-Shaped Pendant Necklaces Upcycled from LEGO Blocks

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, we couldn't help but be enamored by these adorable heart-shaped pendants upcycled from LEGO blocks. An inspired idea by crafty mom of three Michelle of

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LEGO Letterpress Makes Ultra-Unique Pixelated Designs

LEGO Letterpress Makes Ultra-Unique Pixelated Designs

We love old letterpresses and LEGO blocks, so we were extremely excited to see the combination of the two in the LEGO Letterpress - a letterpress that makes pixelated art with a little help from our

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Lego Style Shipping Container Skyscraper Inspired by Mondrian

Lego Style Shipping Container Skyscraper Inspired by Mondrian

Since Rotterdam has a rather vast container port, sourcing the modular elements for the Adaptable Tower would be made even more sustainable since the containers would not have to be trucked from afar. The

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BOXHOME: Small Living Inside A Stylish Norwegian Box

BOXHOME: Small Living Inside A Stylish Norwegian Box

This four bedroom house with its stylish aluminum exterior and rough hewn wooden interior seems classically Scandanavian in its simplistic design. Measuring approximately 5.5 meters long, 5.7 meters high

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Incredible Kitchen Renovated with LEGOs

Incredible Kitchen Renovated with LEGOs

The Munchausen Lego Kitchen is based around an Ikea island that has been outifftted with more than 20,000 Lego pieces. Not quite and afternoon in the playroom, the entrie process took the designers more

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v100 Mod Box: the Next Generation in Prefab Design

v100 Mod Box: the Next Generation in Prefab Design

The v100 Mod Box system is based on 10 ft x 10 ft x 10 ft boxes that can be assembled into any shape to create practically any structure - from a home to an office, studio, or they could even be grouped

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Pixar Animator Joins Forces with Lego to Create ‘Cube Dudes’

Pixar Animator Joins Forces with Lego to Create ‘Cube Dudes’

Even the über creatives at Pixar can't resist the charms of a Lego block. Pixar animator Angus MacLane recently joined the ranks of Lego enthusiasts, creating his own series of 'Cube Dudes' for much

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One+ Modular Prefab Homes Are Like Legos for Adults

One+ Modular Prefab Homes Are Like Legos for Adults

One+ was designed by architect Lars Frank Nielsen of Danish firm ONEN Design, and is a modular housing system that could be used as an office, studio, extra bedroom, guest house or even expanded to be a

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LEGO Headphones Bring New Life to Old Toys

LEGO Headphones Bring New Life to Old Toys

Still have a tub full of building bricks sitting around after your last life-size LEGO project? Why not transform them into a pair of block-rocking LEGO headphones, as per these directions from

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Return Brick Recycling Robot Transforms Rubble into New Bricks

Return Brick Recycling Robot Transforms Rubble into New Bricks

What if there was a machine that could automatically collect rubble from torn-down buildings and transform the material into new bricks? That’s exactly what designers Youngwoo Park, Hoyoung Lee and

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Monster Robot Chess Set Made from 100,000 LEGOS

Monster Robot Chess Set Made from 100,000 LEGOS

Oh, the wonderful world of LEGOS - we've seen that they can build you just about anything including a city! Well, a team of LEGO enthusiasts just put the finishing touches on their Monster Chess set. It

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