{"id":275865,"date":"2022-10-05T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/?p=275865"},"modified":"2022-10-04T17:29:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T21:29:29","slug":"lego-builder-captures-the-posts-form-and-function-in-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/joc\/news\/projects\/2022\/10\/lego-builder-captures-the-posts-form-and-function-in-vancouver","title":{"rendered":"LEGO builder captures The Post\u2019s form and function in Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"
Amazon and a unique construction expert have already built their new Vancouver headquarters, brick by LEGO brick.<\/p>\n
Graeme Dymond is one of three LEGO Master Builders in North America and has built a 12 cubic foot model of The Post, Amazon\u2019s upcoming downtown Vancouver headquarters, which also restores and builds upon the former Canada Post building, a historic landmark that once served as the city\u2019s main mail processing facility. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Master builders are hired by LEGO to build projects on behalf of the company utilizing their specialized skill sets to mold creations through the medium of small plastic bricks that they turn into dinosaurs, spaceships and real-world construction projects.<\/p>\n
Dymond said the model was built in a modular fashion because it had to be moved from place to place, starting with the original construction of the model at Science World before moving to Amazon\u2019s current headquarters in the Telus Gardens building across the street from The Post construction project.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had to design it in such a way that I could transport it and move it around, so even though it is solid, it comes apart into these larger segments as well that make it easier to move,\u201d he said. \u201cThe are components of the structure that are hollow just to speed along the process because LEGO building is a very time-consuming process for construction.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re lucky you get about 250 bricks down in an hour and as you\u2019re building you\u2019re also iterating a little, because as much as you try to design sometimes, as you see it come along, you realize \u2018oh this needs to be tweaked a little bit or changed a bit,\u2019\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
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