postapocalyptic vision—at least, as chilling as a postapocalyptic vision made from Legos can be. The giant diorama, titled Containment, was built by Tyler Clites and Nannan Zhang and unveiled at Brickworld in Chicago in June (you can catch it again at the next Brickworld).

Containment stretches more than 7 feet across, with flashing lights, speakers for music, and a working monorail. Many of the smaller vignettes are nods to other Lego architects and dioramas: The monkey with four hooked limbs, for example, is an homage to a sci-fi Lego construction called Omicron Weekend, and the figure chiseling at a rock sculpture is a tribute to Nate Nielson, a Lego builder who died last spring. The scene, Zhang says, is designed to leave us wondering what exactly is being contained—the isolated facility or the chaos outside. “That’s a question for us all to answer,” he says.

Authors: Justin McLachlan

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