From the outside, Cowley St Laurence Children's Centre is not your average setting. Clad in more than a million Lego pieces, the centre in Uxbridge, London, is the world's first inhabited structure made of the toy bricks.
The aim of the £900,000 project was to involve children from start to finish in the design and construction. Architects and modellers from WHAT Architecture and Legoland Windsor worked with nursery and primary children to help bring their designs to life using 1,263,801 Lego bricks to clad the children's centre.Children were invited to submit designs to be used on the facade at special workshops run by centre staff.
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