Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in LEGO

By John Farrier in Architecture, Toys on Apr 6, 2010 at 8:00 pm

It took LEGO artist Matija Grguric 7 months and 15,000 bricks to recreate Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece Fallingwater. It’s currently on display at a museum in Zageb, Croatia. Grguric writes:

Scale of the building is minifig, or approximate 1:40. One of the issues was how to make the stone walls of the building. The result here is made out of 4 different shades of grey (old grey and bley). Other was the terrain and vegetation. In the end I decided to make it in winter atmosphere. Snow is something I always enjoy, and I was always more of a winter type of person, so here it is – my first snowy MOC. :)

Building process spread over total of almost 7 months, and the structure is made out of more than 15000 bricks (just an approximate guess). It is placed on 6 48*48 baseplates, and measures 115 x 80 x 50 cm. It weights more than 20 kg.

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Previously on Neatorama:
Fallingwater: The Movie
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater Recreated with Half Life


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  1. Another Tim
    Apr 6th, 2010 at 8:20 pm

    I think I will only spend one evening (maybe two) and only use about 5% of LEGO bricks: http://shop.lego.com/product/?p=21005&LangId=2057&ShipTo=US

  2. halieus
    Apr 6th, 2010 at 8:35 pm

    This is way better than Lego’s $99 model that looks like a pile of poo compared to this one.

  3. felixthecat
    Apr 6th, 2010 at 8:42 pm

    You’re right. The official version, compared to this one, does look like a steaming pile of sh- umm, poo.

  4. Alex
    Apr 6th, 2010 at 9:16 pm

    Wow, that is fantastic. One thing I distinctly remember about Frank Lloyd Wright is that he had a penchant of not using rebar in his concrete – so a number of his buildings (like Falling Water) are now crumbling.

  5. taliesyn30
    Apr 7th, 2010 at 3:04 am

    That’s just…. awesome….

    Awesomorama doesn’t have the same ring at all, but this is exquisite.

    Exquisitorama…? I’ll stop there.

  6. Budi
    Apr 7th, 2010 at 1:00 pm

    Good design

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