In her 1959 debut by Mattel, Barbie became a doll that transformed the toy industry and has been a popular culture icon ever since. 3 years later, the first accompanying Barbie Dollhouse was created, ...

There are big names in the architecture toy game, like LEGO, whose architecture series includes iconic buildings and monuments, including the Brandenburg Gate, the Flatiron Building, and the Sydney ...

New York designer Nik Bentel has reimagined the humble chalk stick as toys in various shapes so that budding artists and architects can draw hatching, dots and circle patterns. Bentel, who grew up in ...

Liu Wenhui has spent the last eight years developing and promoting toy building blocks based on the mortise and tenon method at home and overseas. In use for more than 7,000 years, mortise and tenon ...

Written by Niall Patrick Walsh Published on February 01, 2019 With more than 15 years of experience in architectural design, the Mazzanti team developed a special interest in using play as a method of ...

An idea suddenly came to him. "I realized that the mortise and tenon construction of ancient Chinese buildings was similar to Lego, but the architectural kits on the market were all of foreign ...

They say that “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” and we think the same can be said about architecture. We’ve rounded six delightful structures inspired by our favorite toys and we think you ...

Talks, workshops, films and tours for people of all ages and degrees of interest in architecture will accompany the run of the new exhibition at the Art Institute. Studs Terkel, the veteran WFMT radio ...