LEGO Architecture has announced the largest ever LEGO set with more than 12,000 pieces – 21065 Sagrada Família, a tribute to Gaudi’s impossibly ambitious landmark.
21065 Sagrada Família will be the largest LEGO set ever to be released, made of an incredible 12,060 pieces. Part of the LEGO Architecture theme, it celebrates Antoni Gaudi’s 100 year legacy and Barcelona’s never-finished icon.
The set will launch on November 1 but you can preorder it now at LEGO.com. It is priced at $649.99/ €749.99/ $799.99, is made up of 12,060 elements and measures 62cm tall and 47cm wide when built.
The Sagrada Família is the most photographed spot in Barcelona. Gaudi combined Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms when he took over construction of the church in 1883 and dedicated his life to its construction until he died in 1926. Although there have been pauses over the past century, work has continued and the basilica reached structural completion on February 20, although some work is still ongoing.
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The LEGO Architecture set pays tribute to the awe-inspiring landmark and follows the actual sequence it was constructed in. The build begins with the foundational Apse and Crypt, moves through Gaudí’s original Nativity façade and the dramatic Passion façade, before rising into the grand naves, Western Sacristy and six iconic towers. The final stage brings the model together with the Eastern Sacristy and the Glory façade.
Design Master Rok Žgalin Kobe has included a stained-glass window effect, designed to echo the unique way light moves through the real basilica.
“We felt an immense responsibility to do justice to the Sagrada Família through this design,” he said. “Our goal was to honour Gaudí’s vision with the utmost respect, capturing the rhythm of the basilica’s construction, its extraordinary complexity and ambition, and translating that into an immersive building experience.
“This is not only the largest LEGO set ever, but a model of one of the most ambitious architectural works in the world. Balancing scale and precision, while remaining faithful to a living monument that has been evolving for more than a century, was a unique design challenge – and one we’re incredibly proud of.”
21065 Sagrada Família takes the ‘largest set’ crown from 31203 World Map and is 3,000 pieces larger than 75419 Death Star.
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