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You Can Soon Build the Sagrada Família Out of 12,060 Legos. Here's Why the Famed Basilica Is an Architectural Marvel
Key takeaways
- Lego Every year, millions of visitors flock to the Sagrada Família, the elaborate Catholic church in Barcelona designed by architect Antoni Gaudí.
- Danish toymaker Lego is launching a new 12,060-piece set of a 3D model of the landmark.
- Lego’s leaders felt an “immense responsibility” to do justice to “one of the most ambitious architectural works in the world,” Rok Žgalin Kobe, a designer for the company, says in a statement.
Lego Every year, millions of visitors flock to the Sagrada Família, the elaborate Catholic church in Barcelona designed by architect Antoni Gaudí. Soon, fans of the famed basilica will be able to build a miniature—but still pretty darn big—version.
Danish toymaker Lego is launching a new 12,060-piece set of a 3D model of the landmark. The kit, which will be released in November, incorporates many of the church’s most iconic architectural features, including the towers, the stained-glass windows, the apse, the crypt, the grand naves, the Western sacristy and the Nativity, Passion and Glory façades. Additionally, the instructions for building the two-foot-tall model follow the actual construction sequence for the basilica.
Lego’s leaders felt an “immense responsibility” to do justice to “one of the most ambitious architectural works in the world,” Rok Žgalin Kobe, a designer for the company, says in a statement.