Brick by brick, Lego has been building its way out of the near bankruptcy it suffered around the turn of the century. It has done this by a seemingly simple strategy — making awesome product after awesome product. Now it is releasing the almost ridiculously fitting Architecture series, beginning with the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection, six planned sets including the Guggenheim in New York and Fallingwater, the iconic cantilevered waterfall-house outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

This, we don’t need to tell you, is inspired. Real bricks turned into Lego bricks. The sets are as yet unpriced, but are unlikely to be cheap. The Lego Taj Mahal, for instance, is $300. What’s better is that this is just the beginning of Lego’s Architecture series, as we can see from the teaser on the product page. We’ll put in a vote for Le Corbusier right now (as a bonus, his buildings should be pretty easy to construct in Lego).

Available now, if you can make it to the Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition at the Guggenheim.

UPDATE. The sets are priced at $45, plus shipping from $10 to $25 depending on how far way from the US you live. I have added a link to the online store below.

Fun Lego Facts:

Worldwide, seven boxes of Lego are sold every second.

Heo Young-Ho of South Korea left Lego on the top of Mount Everest in 1987.

According to Lego, even just two bricks give 24 different combinations.

All Legos are made equal. Every brick is compatible from the first brick made in 1958 (the year before the Guggenheim was completed and Wright died) to those made today.

The Lego minifig was born in 1974, and it took another 30 years for them to get proper, skin-colored faces when licensed figures dropped yellow for flesh-tone.

Kids waste around 5 billion hours a year playing with Lego.

I once got a Lego brick stuck in my nose and it took almost half a day to sneeze it out.

Product page [Lego]

Online store [Brick Structures. Thanks, John!]

Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO Sets (and press release) [Prairie Mod via The Coolist]