The End of the Dark Ages

There are dreams you keep deep in yourself for years, which sometimes come back to your mind incidently to keep you restless henceforward.

In my case it was the childhood dream to build a skyscraper with LEGO^® bricks.

Of course, I already tried to fulfill this dream as a child, but failed due to two things:

• I had not enough bricks,
• those I had, had the wrong color.

So my attempts ended in relatively small and red constructions, which resembeled a skyscraper only with a god portion of childly phantasy. As I grew up and slightly lost interest on LEGO^®, the dream more and more got lost in my dark ages...

Macabre enough, with the terryfying and brutal attack of some savage terrorists on the World Trade Center on September 11, when thousands of innocent people lost their lives, I indirectly got interested again in skyscrapers in common and especially the WTC. In the following months I visited a lot of websites concerning skyscrapers and incidently found the website of Sean Kenney, who built the WTC with LEGO^® bricks. This was the moment, my long lost dream came up again. And nothing could stop it from now on...

Decisions

I started to draw some sketches of ideas I had, so far without any plans to carry out any of those ideas in a real model. I dropped the idea to built a WTC model very quickly. The attack was still too present in my mind and there were enough others who had done the WTC before. Another candidate were the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. But to build these towers as a LEGO^® model brought up some insurmountable problems. Besides, the cost of a model of that size shocked me a bit.

So, I decided to work out my own skyscraper instead of an existing one - and actually only on paper...

Getting started

To get my rubbish reality, I owe two circumstances: the first LEGO^® brand store opened in my hometown Cologne and my wife surprised me with the words: "So why don't you just build it?"

Well, I didn't wait to be told twice!

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