Bricks in the Sky

LEGO bricks have rained upon the ArcelorMittal Orbit as they bring the Bricks in the Sky exhibition to the skyline of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The exhibition will be running from Sunday 15 to Sunday 22 February 2015 to coincide with children’s half-term.

Warren Elsmore was present to build live a 2 metre high ArcelorMittal Orbit constructing of 100,000 bricks. So that’s an 80 metre high architecture in just 100,000 for you! Also on display is two pieces created by Elsmore in which he reconstructed the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park into a LEGO miniature, which were commissioned by the LEGO Group and Visit Denmark for the Denmark Hospitality House for the Olympics. The pieces were displayed at Team GB’s headquarters during the Paralympics. The displays were built at around 1:500 scale with 250,000 bricks used. The project clocked up over 300 hours in a 5 week time scale to meet the start of the Olympics.

The exhibition features miniature-sized figures and landmarks such as the O2, Nelson’s Column, Battersea Power Station, St Paul’s Cathedral and Elizabeth Tower (famously known as Big Ben). Other iconic symbols featured were the red telephone box, the routemaster bus and the black cab.

There are numerous activities on offer such as watching the work of Warren Elsmore in progress, using the interactive boards which gives a panoramic view of London, enjoying the views from outside the window or out in the open air and there is a table of LEGO to get yourself into for pure blissful enjoyment.

There is an opportunity to get a free souvenir photo by tweeting #BricksintheSky which will feed on to a print machine on base level all the way at the bottom of the Orbit. The photo itself very much resembles a Polaroid frame design.

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