Gigantic LEGO House Demolished!
James May built a gigantic LEGO with the help of 1000 volunteers for a BBC television challenge. He had not asked for support from LEGOland, but instead constructed the 20ft-tall house in Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey– but now the vineyard needs the land back to harvest its grapes. The project was to be sold as a public attraction in Britain, but they ended up without a buyer. So it has been demolished!
More notes from Desmond Williams, from Inbitots:
The dream home of many a young (very young) architect was demolished late last month due to a lack of viable interest from prospective buyers. The demolition (which oddly did not involve block-by-block dissection by tiny, knobby fingers, but instead the swinging of very real sledge hammers), resulted in a monstrous pile of 3.3 million LEGO bricks.
News of the demolition spurned an outcry of how ecologically unfriendly the once fun project turned out to be. Fortunately, the fears of the show’s eco-minded watchers were not realized — as the LEGO bricks used to build the home have been donated to charity. The designboom comments section features healthy discourse on all things LEGO.
Link via Mail Online and Inhabitat
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