The idea of the Scale Model line never really catches on with the consumers and the line is discontinued in the mid-1960s. The economic boom in the 1950s and early 1960s allowed a lot of Danish families to dream of building their own house and now they had the chance to design it themselves using LEGO bricks.
Inside, the consumer would also find an architectural book with ideas based on basic architecture to underline the focus on an older target group. The packaging of the larger sets was designed in greyscale showing architectural drawings to help inspire the builders. The plates were introduced in small supplementary sets as well as in three larger sets, nos. The latest addition to the LEGO Architecture family is the Skyline Collection offering miniature skylines of cities such as Paris, San Francisco and Shanghai.
#Lego skyscraper series
The Landmark series gives consumers the opportunity to create models of iconic landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, Burj Khalifa and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The series includes models of Villa Savoye and Farnsworth HouseTM to name a few. The LEGO Architecture series focuses on buildings that are widely praised for their remarkable architecture. Today, the LEGO Architecture line includes more than 40 models divided between the series – Architecture, Landmark and Skyline collection. In 2008, models of the Willis Tower (then, Sears Tower) and John Hancock Center mark the beginning of the LEGO Architecture series. LEGO designers begin to work with Adam Reed Tucker, who designs smaller scale models of Chicago Skyscrapers. The LEGO Group is impressed and grasp the potential for producing smaller models of real buildings. He begins creating models of landmark buildings in 2006, quickly catching the eye of the LEGO community with large models of New York’s Empire State Building and other skyscrapers. For this purpose, he is looking for a suitable medium – and decides to use the unlimited possibilities of the LEGO® brick. In Chicago, Architect Adam Reed Tucker works on the problem of communicating the complexity of skyscraper buildings.
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