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Architect makes Scale Model of Housing Proposal in Lego

By AddyDugdale, 8:32 AM on Tue Sep 11 2007, 20,688 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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This is a 1:50 scale model of Lego Towers, a proposed housing development for Copenhagen &mdash made of Lego. Designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group, this time-lapse video was shot over five weeks. Photos, plus how many bricks were needed to make the model, are after the jump.

Two hundred and fifty thousand. [Bjarke Ingels Group via Dezeen]

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