Lego bridge
The Lego Bridge is a concrete - girder bridge over the sister street in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Wuppertal . The 2011 from the graffiti - and Street Artists Martin Heuwold (stage name MEGX) in the design of Lego blocks mounted coat of paint found at home and abroad in numerous publications attention and received the 2012 Award of the German facade prize .
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In 2011, Martin Heuwold came up with the idea of redesigning one of the bridges on the Wuppertal Northern Railway, which was closed in 1991 . After exploratory talks with the city of Wuppertal and the Wuppertal movement , which had laid a cycle and footpath along the route of the railway line, the bridge over Schwesterstraße was selected, which connects the two districts of Elberfeld ( Ostersbaum residential area ) and Barmen ( Clausen residential area ). Heuwold received the suggestion to paint the bridge in the form of Lego bricks from his wife Ninon Becker. The Danish manufacturer Lego A / S gave its approval for the project in advance. The design was developed using a model made from real Lego bricks.
The painting of the bridge, supervised by the Wuppertal Movement, took 13 days and was completed on September 15, 2011. An area of more than 250 square meters was to be painted. Heuwold was supported by employees of the Wuppertaler Wichernhaus gGmbH employed in the second labor market . The project was financed by the Wuppertal movement and the sponsors akzenta and Klauser shoes . The bridge was inaugurated on October 7, 2011.
Awards
- 2012: Award of the German Facade Award
- 2013: “ Excellent place in the land of ideas ” in the culture category
Lego bridge 2.0
From June 29, 2020, work began on painting in Lego design on another former railway bridge ( Schwarzbachtrasse ) across Dahler Strasse in Wuppertal- Langerfeld . Martin Heuwold developed the idea in winter 2019 and designed the design using Photoshop . The project bears the preliminary name Lego Bridge 2.0 or Rainbow Bridge and, in contrast to its model, is to be designed with colors from the entire color spectrum.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b German Facade Prize 2012
- ↑ a b Press release ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the city of Wuppertal from September 16, 2011
- ↑ City map of Wuppertal on the Geoportal Wuppertal
- ↑ Article in the Westdeutsche Zeitung of September 8, 2011 ( online version )
- ↑ a b Article in the Westdeutsche Zeitung from July 1, 2020
- ^ Website of the artist
- ↑ Lego bridge award-winning ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Wuppertaler Rundschau (online) from August 29, 2013
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 3.1 ″ N , 7 ° 9 ′ 38.8 ″ E