#HTEThe Jacob Lego Javits Center Next month is the ICFF, which designers both aspiring and established will descend upon to display their wares. But Brooklyn-based Sean Kenney’s work is already inside the Javits Center. Earlier this year, Legomaniac...
#HTEThe Jacob Lego Javits Center Next month is the ICFF, which designers both aspiring and established will descend upon to display their wares. But Brooklyn-based Sean Kenney’s work is already inside the Javits Center. Earlier this year, Legomaniac...

#HTEThe Jacob Lego Javits Center
Next month is the ICFF, which designers both aspiring and established will descend upon to display their wares. But Brooklyn-based Sean Kenney’s work is already inside the Javits Center. Earlier this year, Legomaniac Kenney built a 114,470-piece replica of the Javits that is now on display there.

The model is nearly 7 feet long and over 5 feet wide, contains 114,470 LEGO pieces, built over the course of 2 months with 4 of my assistants.

I designed the model using any information I could find online: satellite photos, photos taken by tourists, floor plans from convention web sites, lots of Google Street View… I even found some panoramas taken inside parts of the building (above) and a drone video which I watched frame-by-frame. The entire model is built in two sections to make it easier to move around.

He’s got all the details right down to the taxi line and the Citibike docking station.

Here’s a time lapse showing the massive endeavor:

Troll comment: “Why didn’t you build the ICFF booths and furniture inside?”

http://www.core77.com/posts/52078/The-Jacob-Lego-Javits-Center

8 years ago
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