Design
Game of the Day: The London Skyline, Reimagined as Chess Pieces
The Queen is The Shard, a rook is Big Ben, and so on.
Two British designers loved architecture and chess so much that they combined their passions into Skyline Chess, a game set that replaces traditional game pieces with 3D-printed pieces of iconic buildings in London.
The designers chose the chess pieces’ architectural counterparts after evaluating the role of each game piece in a chess match as well as the symbolic value of the physical buildings in London. Here’s what they decided: