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Load-Bearing Legends

Hong Kong 22.28°N 114.16°E
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A half-day team challenge that shows how your people plan, negotiate and decide under pressure.

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The Bridge Exchange

00:00 / 01:02

Your mission

Build the bridge that wins the room.

Your problem

So does every other team, and you’re all shopping at the same market.

Every team gets 1,000 credits, and every purchase moves the price. Premium buys speed. Patience buys bargains. Newspaper costs almost nothing, if your team can make it hold.

Need an edge? Buy an expert tip. A proven blueprint. A spy card for a look at a rival’s plan. Or skip the market and strike a deal with the team next to you.

Then comes the moment everyone awaits. Your bridge on the rig, the sand going in, the whole room counting… Until it breaks.

The final score rewards how far you span, how much you carry, and how much money you kept.

Spend like an engineer. Save like a strategist

  1. Step 1

    Bid

    Buy materials and know-how on a market that reacts to every team’s demand.

  2. Step 2

    Build

    Premium and easy, or cheap and clever. Spend it now, or keep it for the score.

  3. Step 3

    Break

    Load it live in front of everyone. The highest Legend Score wins.

Legend Score

Span × Load × (1 + Unspent ÷ Budget)

Span times load measures the bending moment the bridge resists, so a long bridge and a strong one compete fairly. Every credit you don’t spend multiplies your result.

Your score13.9

of 26.4 max

What you’ll learn about your team

We unpack every moment in the debrief, so each team leaves with one thing to do differently at work.

Decision-making

Who takes charge of the budget, and how the team agrees on what’s worth paying for.

Leadership under pressure

Who keeps a cool head when prices spike, and who finds the smarter, cheaper route.

Collaboration

Whether teams share, trade and help each other, or try to corner the market.

Using expertise

Whether the team pays for outside know-how or backs its own ideas.

Length
Half day, about 3.5 hours with the debrief
Team size
6 to 50 people, best in squads of five or six
Where
Your venue or off-site. We bring the market and materials
From
HK$730 per person, materials included

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Julien Klisz

Licensed architect and lead facilitator

Julien is an award-winning architect and Design Director at LEAD, the Laboratory for Explorative Architecture & Design in Hong Kong. Load-Bearing Legends takes the way architects actually work, under real constraints, deadlines and loads, and turns it into a team challenge.

  • Design Director at LEADCultural buildings, public installations and large urban developments
  • University educatorHas taught and led master’s design studios at CUHK and HKU since 2013
  • Award-winning projectsBuilt work across Asia and the Middle East
  • Venice Architecture BiennaleExhibited at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition

Plan a session

From 6 to 50 people, best in squads of five or six

Venue
Preferred date