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A Word from the Artist
The LEGO
®
reproduction of Marina Bay Sands
®
’ complex
forms - a design with hardly any straight lines - required a
solution beyond the single perpendicular grid floor plan
usually favored in LEGO building, with two additional
rotated grids on the sides.
While it is challenging to create architecture of such
enormous size, the opposite is true when designing
in LEGO elements - the smaller the scale the bigger
the challenge. In this model the height of a single brick
represents five stories in real-life.
Sideways building with LEGO elements allows for more
gradual changes on the concaved sides of the three hotel
towers; the double-glazed curtain walls with reflective glass
on the west façades are recreated with transparent blue
1x4 bricks, while the 1x2 LEGO grilles mimic the balconies
on the sloping eastern facades.
A strong design element of the complex is the vegetation.
The lush trees and plants of the SkyPark are abstracted
here by olive green round LEGO 1x1 bricks.
Rok Žgalin Kobe
The Marina Bay Sands model was created in close
collaboration with the LEGO design team. They look at
the model from a LEGO building point of view and ensure
the construction process is simple and logical, and a
positive experience for the user.
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