Lego-Brücke

The Lego Bridge is a concrete girder bridge over the sister street in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Wuppertal. The 2011 mounted by the graffiti and street artist Martin Heuwold design of Lego bricks paint found at home and abroad in numerous publications attention and received the 2012 Award of the German Facade price.

Description

2011 Martin Heuwold developed the idea to make one of the bridges in 1991, decommissioned Wuppertal Northern Railway in color. After exploratory discussions with the city of Wuppertal, Wuppertal movement that had created on the route of the railway line a bike and pedestrian path, the bridge over the sister street has been selected, the two parts of the city Elberfeld ( residential district Easter tree) and Barmen ( residential district Clausen ) connects. The suggestion to frame the painting of the bridge in the form of Lego bricks, Heuwold received by his wife Ninon Becker. The Danish manufacturer Lego A / S announced in advance its approval to the project.

The supervised by the Wuppertal movement painting of the bridge took 13 days and was completed on September 15, 2011. Was to paint an area of ​​more than 250 m². Heuwold was supported by the Second Labour Market time employees of the Wuppertal Wichernhaus gGmbH. Funding for the project was akzenta by the Wuppertal movement as well as the sponsors and worn Klauser shoes. On 7 October 2011, the bridge was inaugurated.

Awards

• 2012: Prize of the German price facade
• 2013: " Excellent place in the Land of Ideas" in the category Culture