Next month is the ICFF, which designers both aspiring and established will descend upon to display their wares. But Brooklyn-based Sean Kenney's work is already inside the Javits Center. Earlier this year, Legomaniac Kenney built a 114,470-piece replica of the Javits that is now on display there.

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The model is nearly 7 feet long and over 5 feet wide, contains 114,470 LEGO pieces, built over the course of 2 months with 4 of my assistants.

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I designed the model using any information I could find online: satellite photos, photos taken by tourists, floor plans from convention web sites, lots of Google Street View… I even found some panoramas taken inside parts of the building (above) and a drone video which I watched frame-by-frame. The entire model is built in two sections to make it easier to move around.

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He's got all the details right down to the taxi line and the Citibike docking station.

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Here's a time lapse showing the massive endeavor:

Troll comment: "Why didn't you build the ICFF booths and furniture inside?"