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LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition

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The Jin Mao Tower and the Trump Tower Chicago

Open through September 3, 2012at the National Building Museum

LEGO® Exhibition Play Pit The Chicago Spire The Burj Khalifa

Fallingwater

LEGO® Exhibition Play Pit 2

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The Gateway Arch and the Transamerica Pyramid

LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition

Tucker with Chicago Buildings

The Jin Mao Tower and the Trump Tower Chicago Photo by Kevin Allen. Courtesy the National Building Museum.

Within the National Building Museum’s exhibition LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition, visitors can explore LEGO® models of Shanghi’s Jin Mao Tower and the Trump tower Chicago.

LEGO Exhibition Play PitPhoto by Kevin Allen. Courtesy the National Building Museum.

Exhibition visitors can build their own LEGO® structures in the LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition play pit. Visitors are then invited to place their structures on a city map of LEGO® city.

The Chicago SpireCourtesy the National Building Museum.

Visitors to the National Building Museum’s exhibition LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition look at Adam Reed Tucker’s model of the unbuilt Chicago Spire designed by Santiago Calatrava.

Burj KhalifaCourtesy the National Building Museum.

Visitors learn more about the Burj Khalifa, the tallest man-made structure every built, from this LEGO® model of the building on display in the National Building Museum’s exhibition LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition.

FallingwaterPhoto by Kevin Allen. Courtesy the National Building Museum.

Visitors check out the LEGO® model of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition.

The Gateway Arch and the Transamerica Pyramid Photo by Kevin Allen. Courtesy the National Building Museum.

The St. Louis Gateway Arch and San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid are featured in the National Building Museum exhibition LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition.

Tucker with Chicago BuildingsCourtesy Adam Reed Tucker and the National Building Museum.

Adam Reed Tucker, LEGO® Certified Professional, with the models of famous Chicago landmarks that he constructed entirely out of LEGO® bricks.

LEGO® Exhibition Play Pit 2Photo by Kevin Allen. Courtsey the National Building Museum.

Visitors build LEGO® structures in the LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition play pit inspired by the designs seen in the exhibition.

LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition

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Open through September 3, 2012at the National Building Museum