There’s a new Trump in town — and it’s ten feet tall! Chicago’s Trump International Hotel and Tower has been given the LEGO treatment, thanks to designer Sean Kenney. The LEGO expert has been creating sculptures from the children’s toy, and paying tribute to the country’s finest buildings over the last few years, choosing Trump’s Apprentice headquarters as his latest project and using 65,000 pieces to complete it! More images and project description after the break.
The Trump Tower may have been Kenney’s most difficult project to date, not taking into consideration its immense size. The actual building is covered with a skin of highly reflective glass, which blurs the façade into Chicago’s skyline. Attempting to replicate the reflective surface, Kenney developed a prototype to create the same visual effect. Since the original building is so tall, it mostly reflects the blue sky and clouds, as well as projecting distorted views of the buildings around it.
