Workshop

RA LEGO® Architecture challenge at home

Sunday 21 June 2020 10am - 5pm

Your own home

Free, no booking required.

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Join the RA LEGO® Architecture Challenge from home this year! Architects, aspiring architects and those up for some fun are invited to construct the most innovative and imaginative ‘places for people’ and share them with us digitally.

For the 7th year running, we are hosting our annual LEGO challenge, as part of the London Festival of Architecture and its theme of "Architecture and Power". This year instead of architecture practices battling it out to win everyone can partake by photographing and sending us their creations digitally.

The brief

We want you to think about the idea of "places for people" and how buildings positively shape our daily experiences. What spaces make you feel happy, are they private, public, in the city or outside it? What makes a good public place, that is welcoming for all? You might want to create an environment to live, work, play or explore.

Your creations can be any size you wish and the buildings themselves can range in scale – from whole cities to a one-room creation. You can use your house, garden, or street as part of the scene or as a prop.

Feel free to work alone or in teams, often the best proposals come when we work together. You may even want to communicate digitally with your friends and family and create something which is greater than the sum of its parts.

How to enter

Share your creations on Instagram or Twitter using the hashtag #RALegoChallenge or tagging us on @architecture_RA, between 10am – 5pm on Sunday 21 June and keep an eye out for the announcement of the winners on Monday. For the architecture practices taking part, please submit through your practice social accounts so we can identify you.

We have five LEGO London Skylines as prizes awarded for the best submissions – one given out to an architectural practice who submits under their practice name and prizes awarded to the wider public.

Judging criteria

★ Imaginative ideas
★ Use of location
★ Innovative approaches to construction
★ Fun

Judges include Rok Zgalin Kobe, Designer of LEGO Architecture and Amy Frearson, editor at large for Dezeen.

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Who won the prizes?

Watch judge Amy Frearson announce the winners.

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Instagram: @__hortus

"The build is very site specific, utilizing the different heights of the steps, connecting them with one another as well as integrating the iron balusters of the railing in the LEGO build." – judge Rok Zgalin Kobe
Instagram: @guy.allen "Super Duper Market"

"An austere exterior opens up to a functional interior; but the richness of the intricately build items on sale steals the show with a variety of shapes and colours." – judge Rok Zgalin Kobe
Twitter: @NitsrikB "Tree house"

"A deconstructed dinosaur model serves as a backbone for a playground amongst the treetops, complete with a trap door and a sliding pole!" – judge Rok Zgalin Kobe
Instagram: @hammersjose

“I created a place where people can enjoy the comforts of modern life without sprawling across the landscape. Instead we can appreciate and benefit from the natural world around us. I used building elements synonymous with more historical architecture, the pitched roofs and arched supports. This is to evoke a sense that the structure has gone back to a time when our societies were more a part of nature rather than apart from it.” – Joe

"The symmetrical white LEGO pagoda-like tower impresses with a scenic placement, good photography and an inspiring description." – judge Rok Zgalin Kobe
Twitter: @bowtiecon

”Burning Man inspired temple - the place burners go to commune with themselves and release what they no longer want to carry.” – Bow Tie Construction

"The gigantic DUPLO construction is a rainbow-like collage of fun sub-builds, and everything rests on wheels!" – judge Rok Zgalin Kobe