UK artist Warren Elsemore’s current exhibition, Brick City, proves that LEGO’s appeal knows no bounds. Using more than 250,000 bricks, he recreated iconic architecture from across all seven continents, ranging from a colourful streetscape in San Francisco to an intricate temple in India.
The exhibition, which is open until Spring 2025 at the National Building Museum in Washngton, US, is a celebration of ground-breaking architecture through the ages, and invites visitors to explore well-known landmarks while discovering new ones.
It also invites visitors to spot “surprising common ground between buildings thousands of years and miles apart, such as the Roman Colosseum and the 2012 Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London,” the Museum says.
The exhibition centrepiece is an almost four-metre-long construction of St Pancras Station in London. This alone was built with more than 180,000 standard LEGO bricks, and it took the artist almost two years to complete.
The complete display features 37 sites, among which are St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, a lively scene on the streets of Old Havana in Cuba, as well as a scene of LEGO minifigures celebrating Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Photos: National Building Museum
