Above: The lead designer of Lego's Sydney Opera House set talks about his team's design. It has been described as "one of the indisputable masterpieces of human creativity." It is as recognizable as the Statue of Liberty, the pyramids at Giza and the Taj Mahal. And now, you can build it in Legos. The Sydney Opera House is the most recent addition to Lego's Creator line, high-end building sets for models of iconic structures, including the Eiffel Tower, the White House, Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater and Guggenheim Museum, and the Taj Mahal, according to Wired. The Sydney Opera House set will be available in September 2013 for $319.99. Now, what other classical music icons would you like to see immortalized in Legos? Read more:Â The New Sydney Opera House Lego Set: 3,000 Pieces, 3 Years in the Making (Wired)
Jennifer Hambrick unites her extensive backgrounds in the arts and media and her deep roots in Columbus to bring inspiring music to central Ohio as Classical 101’s midday host. Jennifer performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago before earning a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.