And then there was the 3.3.million brick full-size Lego house built in 2009 by “Top Gear” presenter James May and an army of volunteers for the television show “James May’s Toy Stories.” While impressive, these full-size fabrications aren’t really practical as anything other than novelty showpieces and blog fodder.
Fans of the ubiquitous plastic brick have tested the structural limits of Lego with full-scale constructs, including several massive towers that, paralleling skyscraper construction, get higher every year as brick-builders race for the record (a theoretically endless pursuit). Over the last few years, Lego has really embraced its relationship to architecture, producing models of famous buildings and even a make-your-own modernism set. Ask an architect what their favorite childhood toy was and chances are he or she will say Legos.