Kennedy Center Multi-Model – Ultramicro Architecture Series

So this is maybe the craziest model I’ve ever built? Anywho, here's the iconic national landmark, DC’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, created at the ultramicro architecture scale. This large fully-buildable (with custom decals), multi-model recreation has four roof trap doors, which when opened/removed reveal the interiors and intricacies of six theaters and productions in the complex. Fun fact: at this ultramicro scale, people are only a tiny 0.8 studs (0.252in/6.4mm) tall! The complex is hosting a hypothetical festival called “The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Celebration of Opera on Broadway”, featuring six legendary, revolutionary pieces of opera from the Broadway musical theatre canon alongside some more seldom-produced but equally striking pieces, one of which has yet to hit Broadway (but has been produced in concert at Carnegie Hall). Enjoy (I most certainly do)!

Kennedy Center Multi-Model – Ultramicro Architecture Series:

Part# 6609, 481 lights

Dimensions (with all roof trapdoors closed): 30.24”W x 15.25”D x 5.55”H

Shows by chronological order of world premiere:

Eisenhower Theater – Porgy and Bess, 1935 original Broadway production, dir. Rouben Mamoulian, scenic des. Sergei Soudekine

Terrace Theater – Carmen Jones, 2018 Off-Broadway revival, dir. John Doyle, scenic des. Scott Pask, lighting des. Adam Honoré

Theatre Lab – Candide, 1974 Broadway revival, dir. Harold Prince, scenic des. Eugene Lee, lighting des. Tharon Musser

Opera House – Evita, 1978 original London/Broadway production, dir. Harold Prince, scenic des. Timothy O’Brien & Tazeena Firth, lighting des. David Hersey

Concert Hall – Sweeney Todd, 2001/2014 New York Philharmonic & San Francisco Symphony staged concert production, dir. Lonny Prince, scenic des. James Noone, lighting des. Alan Adelman

Plaza Theater (hypothetical outdoor theatre on the complex’s South Plaza) – Kristina från Duvemåla, 1995 original Malmö/Gothenburg/Stockholm production, dir. Lars Rudolfsson, scenic des. Robin Wagner, lighting des. Linus Fellbom