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Lego House is a 12,000-square metre building filled with 25 million Lego bricks in Billund, Denmark, located near Legoland and the headquarters of The Lego Group. It is also known as Home of the Brick with reference to Billund, where Lego originates.
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Legoland Billund Resort (also known as Legoland Denmark), the original Legoland park, opened on 7 June 1968 in Billund, Denmark. The park is located next to the original Lego factory and Billund Airport, Denmark's second-busiest airport. Over 1.9 million guests visited the park in 2011, and 50 million guests have visited the park since it opened.
Billund is a popular tourist destination for families. Many of the town's attractions are connected by a Playline trail, which was designed to provide tourists with a safe, child-friendly path around the town. [43] [44] Legoland Billund Resort draws 2 million tourists per year to Billund. [45] Lego House, an experience centre in Billund
Lego Architecture (stylized as LEGO Architecture) is a Lego theme that aims to "celebrate the past, present and future of architecture through the Lego Brick". [2] The brand includes a series of Lego sets designed by "Architectural Artist" Adam Reed Tucker, and each contain the pieces and instructions to build a model of a famous architectural building or city skyline in micro-scale.
Lego company grows to 5,000 employees worldwide; 3,000 of them being in Billund. The gearstick is introduced. Danish Foreign Minister, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, opens the Lego Centre at Birkenhead Point in Sydney Australia, the first permanent Lego shop outside Billund [4] 1986: Lego Technic robots controlled by computers are placed in schools.
Lego is a shortened form of the Danish word Leg godt, meaning "play well". [12] The company eventually became known as The Lego Group. [ citation needed ] Years later, he said, "Not until the day when I said to myself, 'You must make a choice between carpentry and toys' did I find the real answer."
By Sarah Firshein When Theodore and Marsha Nierenberg, founders of the Scandinavian tabletop firm Dansk International Designs, needed to build a house atop their scenic, 22-acre slice of land in ...