The Sydney Opera House is being made into an official Lego product, joining a select few architectural icons recreated in miniature architecture collection.

The Opera House is one of seven brick-built models in the new architecture range, which will also include New York's Empire State Building and Seattle's Space Needle. It’s due to be released in March.

Of course people have been making their versions of the iconic building with the famous toy for many years, although it is often cited as one of the most challenging of buildings to replicated in Lego.

The new official model builds the Australian landmark in miniature using 260 Lego pieces.

Pritzker Prize-winning Danish architect Jorn Utzon’s Sydney building joins models of other celebrated buildings by architects including Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe, the Burj Khalifa by SOM and three projects by Frank Lloyd Wright: Fallingwater, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Robie House.

The Lego Architecture range was launched in 2010 by the Danish toy brand to “celebrate the past, present and future of architecture through the medium of the Lego Brick”.

Lego Australia director of marketing Caroline Squire said: “The Lego Architecture Sydney Opera House seeks to capture the essence of this grand building in a small scale.

“The Lego Architecture range uses the iconic Lego brick to interpret the designs of renowned architecture from around the world and Lego Australia is proud that Australia’s own Sydney Opera House has been chosen as one of the 2012 debut models for this exciting collection.”