Dulles International Airport to showcase Lego replica

DULLES, Va. (DC News Now) — Dulles International Airport will be welcoming a new display — a mini, Lego version of itself.

A spokesperson with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) said that Richard Paules spent months creating a Lego replica of the airport.

MWAA purchased the “amazing” replica. It will be displayed in a case at Dulles after Friday, Jan. 26.

The airport posted a video of crews transporting the Lego creation on the platform X Thursday afternoon.

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Paules posted photos of the completed replica on his Facebook in November of 2023 detailing how the airport became his next project.

“In Eero Saarinen’s marvel of form and function I knew I had found it. The first airport in the world designed for the age of jet travel. He envisioned a sweeping unsupported canopy suspended between two rows of outwardly angled columns, under which passengers would check their bags and wait to be whisked away to their waiting planes in futuristic “mobile lounges” that seemed straight out of a sci-fi thriller set on the moon,” Paules’ post stated.

“Like the actual Dulles terminal its LEGO counterpart was an immense technical challenge and functions under the same principles. The heavy, sweeping canopy that seems so fragile and to defy gravity is incredibly rigid as it pulls down on the outward angled columns, compressing them back on themselves and the inverted arch of the roof, creating a structure in perfect balance and impressive strength,” the post continued.

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Paules had shared other Lego replicas he had made, including the Biden-Harris Inauguration and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey, on his Instagram account.

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