Photo credit: Sean Kenney
LEGO artist Sean Kenney built this 10-foot-tall replica of Chicago’s Trump International Hotel and Tower using 65,000 bricks. This giant model was designed to captures the look of the real skyscraper, which is known for its reflective glass facade that blends into Chicago’s skyline.
He tackled the challenge of recreating this reflective quality by layering clear LEGO bricks over an inner structure of blue, white, and gray pieces, designed to suggest the sky and clouds reflected on the building’s surface. The project took Kenney and his assistants a month to build, and remarkably, it’s held together entirely by the LEGO bricks’ own interlocking system—no glue was used.
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This creation was part of a series of Chicago landmarks Kenney crafted, including the Tribune Building and Water Tower Place, all of which remain on permanent display at the LEGO Store in Chicago’s Water Tower Place Mall.
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