I LEGO N.Y.: A Playful Visual Love Letter to New York City

A minimalist masterpiece of urban design, visual wit, and brick-built nostalgia.

Before there were official LEGO(R) Architecture sets for adults, world-renowned illustrator and New Yorker cover artist Christoph Niemann looked at a handful of standard plastic bricks and saw a city.

Using only a few perfectly placed primary blocks, Niemann transforms the overwhelming complexity of New York City into a series of brilliant, laugh-out-loud visual metaphors. A single yellow brick becomes a roaring ...