Sunday, May 5, 2013

This Lego Recreation of Fallingwater Is Your Deal of the Day

When Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater was completed in 1937, it was both an artistic accomplishment and a marvel of engineering. The residence's design?set above a waterfall?is meant to evoke harmony between house and nature, and it achieves that through cantilevered floors supported by reinforced concrete, a technology that was relatively new at the time. The design was so daring that Fallingwater's engineer actually had a support wall put in?and Wright subsequently took a layer of bricks out to prove his original design was sound. This Lego recreation leaves the bricks in.

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