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I was asked by the designer of this MOC, Daniel Bugeja, to produce instructions for this amazing recreation of Rammas Echor.
You can find the instructions on Rebrickable. rebrickable.com/users/Playwell%20Bricks/mocs/
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☀️ This hexastyle, pseudoperipteral Temple was dedicated to the sun god, Apollo.
The Temple doors were of sculpted ivory, the column capitals were painted in gleaming yellow & gold, and the pediment was topped by Apollo's quadriga (horse-drawn carriage).
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Downtown Records is a modular record shop, ready and waiting to take it’s place in your LEGO city, I have packed it with brick built detail as well as custom printed parts (two of my favourite things about LEGO sets). I will gradually be revealing more of this project over time, but to start with I have revealed images of the building from the front, the side and the record store interior.
In total, Downtown Records contains about 3000 bricks and is divided into three sections. The bottom section includes a street scape including traffic light and crossing, leafy tree (I am particularly happy with how the tree turned out – I only had to rebuild it four times!) and a small news stand. Inside on the ground floor of the building there is the record store itself with shelves bulging with custom printed records on 2×2 tiles, a bathroom, and access to the staircase leading upstairs.
My aim with the design of the facade was to create a believable downtown two storey brick-faced building with stucco detailing and ornate architectural cornicing.
So if you would like to help make Downtown Records a real LEGO set, it’s free to support, all you need to do is head on over to LEGO Ideas, sign up for an account and hit that blue support button!
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Colonial Revival House based loosely on BCD instructions.
Bay Window Brokers, this Brick Builder’s Pro (L.G. Orlando), “Town Street” (1 of a set of 4 building instructions from those aftermarket instructions).
DESIGN Insights for my latest commission piece depicting the Hawthorn Mall Redevelopment!
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Christmas is over and summer is in mind. So I built this small seaside villa where you can feel the sea breeze, watch the boats pass by and enjoy the sun beams dancing on your skin...
The boat was the trickiest part of this build. I hope no one eats it.
This early work-in-progress shot shows a small portion of a new Detroit related minifig scale model on which I had started building about a week ago.
Can anyone identify the real building?
House of Three is a contemporary Scandinavian family home. I've tried to catch contemporary Scandinavian architecture in colours, floor plan and roof design. The interior and furniture in inspired by IKEA and other Scandinavian designs. Comfortable living suitable for a small family.
The third LEGO skyscraper goes up in Wasabi District! At just over 3 feet tall and over 5000 pieces, this 10-storey building is the first office skyscraper in Wasabi District!
This is the office floor, with a receptionist's desk, 3 office desks and a manager's office, as well as a storage room.
This Lego clock tower modular is inspired by Prague Astronomical Clock in Prague, Czech Republic. Besides the clock tower there are also three small houses. Total width of all buildings is 48 studs and about 4100 bricks were used. Computer rendering but only existing bricks were used.
I am very pleased to present the Legacy Tower in Rochester, New York.
My client loves the architecture of this building and wanted it done in microscale for his collection. As always, we worked together closely to make sure his imagination became a reality.
The resulting design is 13.6 " (34.6 cm) high and the base is 7.6" (19.2cm) square. All together there are 4001 pieces.
This was easily the most complex microscale build I have done to date and it was an incredibly fun challenge!
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The double-faced deity, Janus is personified in this four-way, quadrifrons arch, the only one of its kind in Rome to survive largely intact to this day.
So it's only appropriate that this turning point is built using some Mario moustache-printed plates for the first time in any of my works!
〰️ These motifs make the perfect architectural festoons! 〰️
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I am very pleased to present the Legacy Tower in Rochester, New York.
My client loves the architecture of this building and wanted it done in microscale for his collection. As always, we worked together closely to make sure his imagination became a reality.
The resulting design is 13.6 " (34.6 cm) high and the base is 7.6" (19.2cm) square. All together there are 4001 pieces.
This was easily the most complex microscale build I have done to date and it was an incredibly fun challenge!
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Due to various factors my building rate has declined significantly. Nevertheless I am pressing on with my Detroit building project.
Can anyone guess what building this is? (question has now been answered)
(it is located on a major Detroit road)
Two townhouses inspired by houses located on Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York. Each house is build as a separate 16x32 modular house. In total about 4800 bricks. Computer renderings but only existing bricks were used.
Today, on the 2,775th anniversary of the Founding of Rome, it gives me great pleasure to announce the official launch of SPQR - Phase II!
Bursting forth from the northern edge of Phase I, Phase II will expand the historical diorama of 4th Century Imperial Rome in several crucial and exciting ways.
In topographical terms, Phase II will introduce two new hills of the fabled seven - the Quirinal & the Esquiline - on either end of its bidirectional tributaries.
Not to be mistaken for haphazard boundaries, the outlines of Phase II were once, in fact, major infrastructural corridors and are drawn along ancient roads and aqueducts. Far from forming a complete picture, these rugged boundaries emphasize the phasic approach to this entire project. QED.
The undulating hillsides between the two spurs will capture vast swaths of the Subura neighborhood, in all its sprawling, frenetic density.
There will, of course, be no shortage of monumental structures in Phase II! Included within its extents are the vividly polychrome Imperial Fora, Caracalla’s enormous Temple of Serapis, the Ludus Magna where gladiators trained beside the Colosseum, and no fewer than three imperial thermae complexes: the Baths of Titus, of Trajan and of Constantine.
While Phase II will add roughly 80% of the overall total land area depicted in the first phase, it is expected to match the 100,000 bricks used for the latter. What Phase II lacks in comparable surface area, it will more than make up for in volume due to the consistently higher elevations and corresponding substructure thickness.
Now, I must stress that none of this is a foregone conclusion. Victory loves hard work, but I continue to rely on your support to ensure my self-reliance as a one-man small business owner.
I humbly ask that you please consider supporting this unprecedented project by subscribing over on my Patreon page. No amount of support is too small. As I've expressed previously, it’s no exaggeration to say that subscriber-based platforms are virtually the only way to fund such long-term endeavors and to insulate the work from the fickle whims of big-tech algorithms.
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While the base for the 2011 original had been designed in the soon-to-be-defunct LEGO Digital Designer, the tower itself was designed + built simultaneously with types & quantities of parts I anticipated would come in handy before reaching the pinnacle ...
Find out more about Eiffel Tower and see the design + build insights in the companion 60-page digital book, now available at www.roccobuttliere.com/shop/eiffel-tower-digital-book.
The People of Rome have spoken and requested all 7️⃣ minutes in one video!
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This Lego clock tower modular is inspired by Prague Astronomical Clock in Prague, Czech Republic. Besides the clock tower there are also three small houses. Total width of all buildings is 48 studs and about 4100 bricks were used. Computer rendering but only existing bricks were used.
While its most commonly known variation is Mughal architecture, Indo-Islamic architecture has its roots in a brief initial Arab manifestation in the Sindh province of Pakistan, before rising to prominence in the Indian subcontinent during the 12th century with the establishment of Delhi as the capital of the Ghurid dynasty. Despite many successive iterations in the centuries leading to its peak during the Mughal empire under Shah Jahan, Mughal architecture has always been a style produced by and for Islamic principles, with firmly stylized Indian influence due to the abundance of a highly skilled workforce on the subcontinent. Verily, all such accumulated skill and knowledge inherent to the Indo-Islamic style would be brought to bear in the colossal construction efforts for the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal.
The parcel of land just outside of Agra, upon which Taj Mahal was to be built, was allocated for Shah Jahan in exchange for the building of a large palace in the center of Agra for Maharajah Jai Singh I. The bulk of the preparatory work on-site involved the excavation for the foundations of the riverside platform, upon which the white marble mausoleum would stand as the focal point of the complex. Together, the plinth and the tomb took twelve years to complete, while construction works on the vast remainder of the complex took an additional ten years. All told, the decades-spanning project is believed to have enlisted more than 1,000 elephants for the transport of building materials from across the empire and abroad, the skills of 22,000 laborers (including painters, embroidery artists and masons), and even craftsmen from as far away as Central Asia (Iran) as well as Eastern Europe (Syria and Turkey).
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Building-A-Day 24: 1919 La Branch St - St Joseph Medical Center
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Perched atop the north corner of Vatican City is the Belvedere Palace, commissioned by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484. The Belvedere was designed by Florentine architect Antonio Pollaiuolo as the first pleasure villa to be built in Rome since antiquity. When Julius II became pope in 1503, he repurposed the Belvedere to house his growing Roman sculpture collection and commissioned Donate Bramante to connect the Apostolic Palace with the villa. Bramante’s design for the Cortile del Belvedere conceived of two long corridors enclosing a series of grand terraces ascending toward the existing Belvedere Palace. This sequence of formal spaces and palatial gardens was unprecedented in Europe and, as aforementioned, began the broader movement of Baroque Gardens. Today, the courtyards are divided by the later additions (pictured front to back) of the Vatican Library and the Bracchio Nuovo.
Pyke, the seat of House Greyjoy.
Westeros.
Game of Thrones.
I'm a huge fan of Game of Thrones, so decided to build something related to that. The obvious castles would have been King's Landing or Winterfell but to me Pyke seemed more interesting, visually. I could build according to the description in the books but add something of my own as well and end up creating my version of it.
Also, I had an opportunity to do some more rockwork, :-) how could I lets that pass.... :-) :-) I used curved slope on plate for most of the rock.
Väven is a cultural center in Umeå, Sweden located next to Ume River. Väven was built in 2011-2014 and next to Väven is the hotel Stora Hotellet. Architects are Norwegian Snøhetta and White arkitekter. Instructions in BriXtar app, search for aukbricks. Computer rendering.
The modular building was inspired by the Prague Astronomical Clock.
Various contraptions are set in motion by motors.
You can see it in motion on youtube.
In an effort to raise funds for the reconstruction of St. Peter’s, the church began offering indulgences in exchange for contributions. These indulgences granted leniency in the punishment of sins and were controversial to the point that Martin Luther penned The 95 Theses in which he argued against the Church’s selling of indulgences. This was one of the catalysts for the Reformation, from which Protestantism was born. Considering the heavy toll the rebuilding of St. Peter’s exacted on the Church, it is little wonder that the task was similarly unwieldy to its lineup of architects. Following Pope Julius II’s formal competition for the design of the new basilica, Donato Bramante’s scheme was selected, for which the foundation stone was laid in 1506. Perhaps in a nod to the ideals of Humanism, Bramante’s plan for the church was a large, square Greek Cross topped by a large central dome set upon four large piers, and four smaller domes at the diagonal axes. After the deaths of Julius II in 1513 and Bramante the following year, the task of building the basilica fell briefly to Giuliano da Sangallo and Fra Giocondo until their own untimely deaths in 1515. Raphael soon took over the design and revised the already ambitious plan to include a nave. Unfortunately, progress stalled for some time more after Raphael died suddenly in 1520 at the age of just thirty-seven. The sudden death of Raphael has been considered by most to be the end of the High Renaissance. While several intermittent and far less fruitful architects oversaw the tremendous task of building St. Peter’s, Rome was sacked in 1527 by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
It was not until 1547 that Michelangelo Buonarroti, then in his seventies, succeeded Sangallo the Younger as Capomaestro, or superintendent, of building St. Peter’s. Michelangelo is credited with having revised and distilled elements from the Bramante and Raphael plans, reconciling them with Sangallo the Younger’s bolstering of the four main piers, and advancing the overall design to a previously lacking state of comprehensiveness that allowed the construction to proceed to eventual completion. His contributions have been quite succinctly summarized by Helen Gardner who stated: “Without destroying the centralizing features of Bramante’s plan, Michelangelo, with a few strokes of the pen converted its snowflake complexity into massive, cohesive unity.” Though he did not live to see the completion of his dome, Michelangelo’s plan was carried through to the end, and was later extended with the addition of the nave and east façade by Carlo Maderno.
Tiger’s Nest is the popular name of the Paro Taktsang Monastery.
It’s a prominent Himalayan Buddhist sacred site and temple complex, located in the cliff-side of the upper Paro Valley in Bhutan. The initial temple complex was built in 1692.
The monastery is located 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) to the north of Paro and hangs on a precipitous cliff at 10,240 feet above sea-level, about 3,000 feet above the Paro Valley.
The monastery buildings consist of four main temples and residential buildings. They are ideally designed by adapting to the rock (granite) ledges, the caves and the rocky terrain.
This Lego Model of the Monastery has taken around eight months to build with approximately 200,000 parts.
A custom build of Boston, Massachusetts in the style of LEGO Architecture Skylines series
From left to right: Prudential Tower, 200 Clarendon Street (John Hancock Tower), Beacon Hill, Boston Commons and Public Gardens, Massachusetts State House, Boston Customs House, Faneuil Hall, Bunker Hill Monument
Vaksalaskolan is a school in Uppsala, Sweden. The building was drawn by Gunnar Leche and built by Anders Diös in 1927. Lego microscale model consists of about 1800 bricks. Some bricks have been chosen in colors that are not currently available to make the final result look more like the real building. Computer rendering.
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You'll get to see TEN animated GIFs deconstructing the halls of Forbidden City, starting from the humblest of storehouses and culminating in the inimitable Hall of Supreme Harmony! Along the way, you'll learn about the vastly standardized timber construction of traditional Chinese architecture, and get to see the specific methodologies and parts usage I implemented so that each and every hall, no matter the size, is homogenous in its design!
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“An old knight is enjoying his retirement and pursuing his hobbies after years of battles and quests.” Howdy flickr! I’ve built with Lego for as long as I can remember, but I’ve only recently gotten back into it, and this is the first castle MOC I’ve built in a long time. I would appreciate any comments or feedback, hope you enjoy!
Vardos WIP with the second section nearly complete!
Starting March 1, Solid Brick Productions will begin their build log of the Vardos project. www.youtube.com/channel/UC93URxoG_ZL9LQL4FKh5ulA
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I am very pleased to present the Legacy Tower in Rochester, New York.
My client loves the architecture of this building and wanted it done in microscale for his collection. As always, we worked together closely to make sure his imagination became a reality.
The resulting design is 13.6 " (34.6 cm) high and the base is 7.6" (19.2cm) square. All together there are 4001 pieces.
This was easily the most complex microscale build I have done to date and it was an incredibly fun challenge!
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The newly restored and substantially redesigned version of my original 2015 piece depicting the Palace of Westminster in London.
For further insights into the Design + Build process - along with extensive historical precedence - check out the accompanying model film over on YouTube!
Lego modular inspired by rococo architecture. Computer rendering but only existing bricks were used.
The Magnolias on 10th --- The newest luxury development at Wasabi District!
Some facts:
-Over 10,000 pieces (I stopped counting at 10k)
-6 32x32 baseplates
-12 modules, including roofs. 9 out of 12 modules fully detailed (interior)
-3 Stores: Five Guys, Godiva, 7-Eleven
-The most difficult Wasabi District project ever!
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Based on the latest archaeological evidence, the Domus Tiberiana was likely home to a large, private garden terrace.
🌲 The garden paths would have run alongside vine-covered walls, been lined by the iconic cypress pines, and featured shallow pools and marble statues.
😃 In other words, these were truly "Gardens of Delight"!
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In the design of Taj Mahal, the sacred Hindu reverence for symmetry in establishing hierarchy is paired masterfully with the mystic Islamic texts which describe paradise as four gardens divided by flowing water. Nearly as ancient as the Vishnudharmottara Purana from which said Hindu practices are traced, Islamic paradise gardens are, themselves, of Achaemenid origin. Often simply referred to as Islamic gardens, their quintessential elements include lush, fertile gardens partitioned by shallow pools, canals or fountains – usually in a quadrilateral layout. Iterations of such garden layouts can be traced as far back as those of Darius I outside the Apadana in Persepolis. It is little wonder, then, that the Persian word “pardis” refers to both paradise and gardens, as the two were regarded as inextricably linked to the divine.
It is for this reason that the imposing Darwaza-I Rauza (Great Gate) stands before the processional entrance to the gardens of Taj Mahal. Its lavish embellishments of white marble details over a bold, red sandstone edifice instantly assert the Great Gate’s status as a symbolic transition between the worldly affairs of bazaars and caravanserai and the spiritual resonance of the realm of paradise.
Despite what is clearly the most finely detailed and lavish of all the structures at Taj Mahal, the mausoleum, known as the Rauza-I Munawwara, was built largely the same as the rest of the buildings in the complex. The structural core consists of walls of clay bricks mixed with rubble, encased with marble fastened to the structure with iron dowels and clamps. This method, in fact, is not unlike Roman or Greek structures of antiquity, whose weathered and pockmarked surfaces reveal the long-since ruined or pillaged exterior finishes. With some walls measuring several meters in thickness, the vast quantity of necessary materials required bricks that were locally fired, while much of the red sandstone used in the other structures of the complex were quarried near Fatehpur Sikri, roughly 28 miles (45 km) from Agra. This local conscription of the bulk of the workforce was also acutely accentuated by two separate occasions of almsgiving which took place when on the second anniversary of Mumtaz Mahal’s passing, and again when her body was moved to its final resting place at Taj Mahal.
Rather than lashing together bamboo scaffolding for the construction, the builders erected immense brick scaffolds alongside the mausoleum as it rose, and as formworks for the various iwan and pishtaqs (Indo-Islamic pointed arches, usually set within iwan). The enormous cost of these brick scaffolds added not only to the workforce required, but to the overall construction time, which some foremen predicted would be dramatically extended due to the efforts required to dismantle the scaffolds and formworks once they were no longer necessary. According to legend, Shah Jahan found a solution to this logistical conundrum with a decree that allowed anyone to use the bricks of the scaffold for themselves. As a result, it is said that the peasants of Agra had completely disassembled the bricks overnight. Whatever the case, these two separate anecdotes of benevolence toward the people of Agra illustrate the extent of the permeation of a vibrant cultural movement brought about by Shah Jahan. Plus, it seems only fitting that any worthy LEGO representation of Taj Mahal ought to at least require a retelling of that one time thousands of plebians were treated to as many bricks as they could carry!