The architect of LEGO’s biggest sets finally reclaims his crown

The architect behind some of the LEGO Group’s biggest sets of all time has finally reclaimed his crown with the upcoming 21065 Sagrada Família.

You may recognise Rok Zgalin Kobe’s name from any one of a long line of LEGO Architecture and Icons sets (although he’s also contributed to releases from Harry Potter, Speed Champions and Creator), including 21020 Trevi Fountain, 21042 Statue of Liberty and 10321 Corvette. But he’s probably best known for his feats of LEGO endurance: 10276 Colosseum, 21056 Taj Mahal and 10307 Eiffel Tower.

Back in 2020, Rok was the man behind what was then the largest LEGO set of all time in the Colosseum, which rings in at 9,036 pieces. But it was quickly superseded in 2021 by LEGO Art’s 31203 World Map, which includes 11,695 elements. The numbers don’t paint the full picture, though: this usurping of the title was skewed by the map’s thousands of tiny 1x1 pieces.

When 10307 Eiffel Tower arrived on the scene in 2022 with 10,001 pieces, many fans considered it the first LEGO set to truly break out beyond the five-figure barrier in a conventional sense. Yet by piece count alone it remained in second place in the LEGO set size standings, because it’s hard to argue with maths. Fast forward to 2026, and Rok has finally reclaimed his crown outright with 21065 Sagrada Família.

This record-breaking LEGO Architecture set comes in at a hefty 12,060 pieces, the most of any LEGO set no matter which way you slice it. (It even outstrips LEGO Chima’s fabled ‘The Ultimate Battle for CHIMA’, a 10,004-piece collection of every Season 3 set.) It’s bigger by piece count than the Colosseum, the World Map, the Titanic, the Death Star… you get the picture.

Volume of pieces is obviously only one metric by which to measure a LEGO set, and by others 21065 Sagrada Família is not king. It’s only 62cm tall, for example – shorter than 10307 Eiffel Tower, of course, but also shorter than 76178 Daily Bugle, 76417 Gringotts Wizarding Bank Collectors’ Edition, 76269 Avengers Tower and so on. It’s 47cm wide and 39cm deep – dimensions smaller than the Eiffel Tower and 10316 The Lord of the Rings: Rivendell.

So it’s definitely not the biggest in actual volume, which points to many of those 12,060 pieces also being pretty small. But it is dense: there’s a lot going on across every spire, tower, nave and tiny architectural detail to give it real display presence, so it’s likely still going to be quite heavy.

What will be really interesting to see is how 21065 Sagrada Família is packaged, because the LEGO Group intimated that it had reached the limits of what it could fit in a standard LEGO box with last year’s 75419 Death Star. Presumably the smaller pieces used in Gaudi’s architectural triumph will help in that regard, but we’ve got a while to wait to find out: this behemoth doesn’t launch until November 1.

You can pre-order it from today at LEGO.com if you fancy locking yours in early, though. 21065 Sagrada Família rings in at £649.99 in the UK, $799.99 in the US and €749.99 in Europe.

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