LEGO, it’s time to add the Nashville skyline to the Architecture Series

LEGO, it’s time to add the Nashville skyline to the Architecture Series

Working in Nashville real estate, we’re forever students of architecture — everyone on the Radius Residential team is steadily studying the past, present and future of beautiful buildings.

Almost without exception, though, we wish we would’ve gotten in on the game a little younger, and started picking up details on design eras and architects while we were mostly picking up scattered LEGOs.

Which leads us to why we’re thoroughly jealous of kids born in the last decade, while LEGO has been producing its Architecture Series.

If you’re not familiar with the series, the famed building-blocks brand launched it in 2008, featuring sets of blocks that, with intricate instructions, can be pieced into the most beautiful and best-known buildings across the globe.

We were just passing around a new announcement about the latest Lego Architecture release — a kit that’ll stack up to mimic the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in celebration of what would be architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th birthday. It inspired us to scan back through the series.

Over the years, LEGO has released sets for a broad collection of famous destinations, including Seattle’s Space Needle, New York’s Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center, Buckingham Palace in London and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

There have been a few bits of residential architecture, too, though specifically on the uber-famous front, like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House and Wright’s Fallingwater.

Along with the addition of the Guggenheim Museum, the LEGO folks have been on a run lately of introducing sets of city skylines, too, from Sydney to Chicago. They’re all really cool, and a few of them will definitely show up on Christmas lists around here. LEGO, it’s time to add the Nashville skyline to the Architecture Series.

But the skyline run begs a request.

While Nashville’s still deep in its growth and attention spurt, and praise is still getting thrown our way for everything from our hockey team to our libraries, and our general status as “one of the hottest cities in America”…  Come on, LEGO, can we get the Nashville Skyline on the Architecture Series list, pretty please?

Sure, our skyline might look drastically different in five years (or five months), but you already have Batman Movie sets, so why not the Batman Building?

If you’re as fascinated by the LEGO Architecture series as we are, head to the LEGO website to learn more, and maybe click “contact us” to join our Nashville Skyline crusade.

While we may ultimately have little sway over LEGO’s Nashville decisions, we can do a lot when it comes to real, grown-up-sized buildings. Shopping for a new home in Nashville? Reach out to Radius Residential Partners and tell us about what you’re looking for — we’d love to help!