Fallingwater, a landmark in Lego

June 16, 2009 10:55 AM PT

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My colleague Martha Groves passed this along: Frank Lloyd Wright’s landmark house in Pennsylvania, rendered as a Lego kit. No running waterfall, but still ...

A Lego spokeswoman says this Fallingwater will be available Aug. 1. It will sell for about $100 at Lego stores and at www.brickstructures.com, which also has Lego sets of the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Space Needle in Seattle and Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The museum, by the way, has an exhibition on the architect running through Aug. 23.

-- Craig Nakano

L.A. at Home

Craig Nakano

Craig Nakano is the assistant managing editor for Entertainment and Arts. He joined The Times as an assistant travel editor, later served as home editor and most recently was the fine arts editor, leading a team whose accolades included a Pulitzer Prize and an Online Journalism Award. A California native, he worked at the Desert Sun of Palm Springs and at the San Francisco Chronicle after graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He lives in Long Beach with his husband and son.

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