Skyscrapers go Lego.

• Author: Mangu-Ward, Katherine
• Position: Briefly Noted - Adam Reed Tucker exhibition entitled 'LEGO Architecture: Towering Ambition' - Brief article

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A tower of blocks is usually an ephemeral thing; most piles beyond a foot or two quickly succumb to gravity. But the edifices built by architect Adam Reed Tucker, one of the world's 11 LEGO[R] Certified Professionals, are another story.

The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., is hosting an exhibit of skyscrapers and other landmark buildings, painstakingly rendered by Tucker in Danish plastic. "LEGO[R] Architecture: Towering Ambition" offers the pleasing spectacle of one commercial art form paying homage to another. The Empire State Building sits cheek-by-jowl with the Burj Khalifa, and the...