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If you like to eat LEGOs, perhaps you'd go wild about the idea of living a city constructed from them. The Storefront for Art and Architecture's currently exhibiting CPH Experiments by BIG, a Copenhagen based group of over 80 architects, designers, builders and thinkers. From shopping at Dean and Deluca to chess players in the park to people working out at the gym, sipping coffee, and doing "it" (yes "it"), we still recognize the New York nuances in an otherwise block-happy world.

The last 50 years the Danish building industry has been exclusively devoted to prefabrication. Denmark has become a country built from LEGO bricks. Rather than seeing the modular mania as a straightjacket, this project is a homage to Danish building industry. By turning the site in to a modular matrix of 12X12ft we created an elastic field of peaks and valleys. A thousand plateaus ascending and descending, separating and merging to form a fluid space of private and public plateaus. Combining the rigorous and the adventurous. The box and the blob.

More images on dpstyle's Flickr.

CPH Experiments
October 2 - November 24, 2007
The Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
New York, NY 10012