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The very first BUILD Insights post, highlighting the rebuilding of my Transamerica Pyramid piece, is up on my Patreon page! Available to all IONIC patrons and above, this is the first of many posts to come that highlight the engineering involved throughout the building process, providing extensive documentation and diagrams to help shed some light on previously unrevealed techniques.
I can't tell you how happy I am to finally be able to pull back the curtain a bit on a platform that doesn't strictly limit image resolution or continual text!
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Festina Lente!
My Lego model of Detroit's Penobscot Building. I recently test assembled it outside of my house (I do not have ceilings high enough to put it up indoors). This Lego skyscraper measures 9.5 feet to the roof and 11 feet to the tip of the mast. I am not 100% satisfied with the proportions so I may remove one of the top floors and perhaps add three floors in the middle section. It was displayed to the public for the first time at Cobo Conference Center from July 27-29 as part of the Lego train display at the 2007 NMRA National Train Show.
Since this photo was taken, I have rebuilt the building with a more accurate 47 stories instead of the old 41 story version. Its about the same overall height since I reduced the height of the 6th and higher floors by 1 brick.
By the way, my height is 5'10".
Symbolism has a way of manifesting itself in similar ways across cultures and across time. Whether it be the antique Platonic significance of a circle and a square, or the Axis Mundi of 20th century comparative mythology, there are shared beliefs and universal forms by which the highest ideas have been expressed throughout human history. The systematization of the Mughal Empire bleeding over into its most noteworthy architectural masterpieces is much the same manifestation which saw the creation and continual rebuilding of Forbidden City in Beijing more than two centuries prior. Long before the circle (representing heaven) and the square (representing the earth) were applied in the lofty dome atop the square plinth of the Rauza-I Munawwara, the two forms were merged in the square portico and circular rotunda of the Pantheon of Rome. While each of these storied landmarks are firmly rooted in their own historicity, it is less a coincidence that they should be so symbolically analogous and more a testament to the shared desire of humanity to achieve something greater and to imbue in its works a fundamental honesty of that shared desire.
Taj Mahal, if for no other reason than the aforementioned, succeeds on these fundamental fronts. Here, the timeless qualities of a desire to be more, to do more, and to share more, are coalesced in the unparalleled ensemble of the Jilaukhana, the Charbagh and the Chameli Farsh of Taj Mahal.
The Black Diamond opened in 1999 as an extension to the Royal Danish Library. The library is located in Copenhagen, and the LEGO model uses 540 pieces.
️ Can you guess to which twin deities this Roman Temple was dedicated?? ️
♊The Temple of the Dioscuri (Castor & Pollux)♊ features prominently in the latest DESIGN Insights post on my Patreon page.
This week's insights highlight Part I of the FORUM ROMANUM and you can be the first to see it all - alongside dozens of design process photos - when you become a CORINTHIAN patron!
️ Oftentimes, their most sacred precincts were built atop huge concamerations, or series of vaulted passageways comprising a plinth.
These constructions would have featured MILES of subterranean passageways.
⛰️ The Heliogabalium on the Palatine Hill was no exception.
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My most famous and longest running city. I have decided to give up my LEGO collection, however I will commemorate each of my past cities with a skyline.
The women of Rome were restricted to sitting all the way up on the fourth level of the Colosseum, known as the Summa Cavea in Ligneis. 🚫
The only women entitled to sit any lower would have been members of the imperial court / family and the Vestal Virgins.
⚔️ Rest assured, these restrictions didn't stop more than a few women becoming Gladiatrices! ♀️
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My most famous and longest running city. I have decided to give up my LEGO collection, however I will commemorate each of my past cities with a skyline.
What’s the highlight of this part of the model? The vibrant, colorful building on this side or the dramatic cliff? Both sections were especially fun to design, and they bring so much life to the entire build!
I also tried to include some creative part usage, like cherries for vegetation sprouting from the retaining wall or rocky areas and green claws to mimic plants!
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!
Logistics never did figure out why their droids kept disappearing...
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🔲 This particular subsection features a huge interior square measuring 32x32 studs. 🔳
The square is rotated just 4° off-axis, requiring it to be wedged in place as the footprint exceeds any viable stud-to-stud interfaces.
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Calmwater Cliff House is located on a cliff by the beach. Two floors with a terrace on each floor. Downstairs you find a spacious kitchen and dining area, a bathroom and home office. Upstairs you find a music corner with sea view, a bedroom and the main entrance.
As you see it´s a LEGO house and I´ve mainly used the colours black, dark tan, tan and reddish brown.
I wanted to make a modern home - in some way inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright and the colours of the 20th century - updated to 21st century lifestyle.
This was my entry for the Rebrick Mini Building Madness contest where the goal was to build a mini modular building of your own design. This was a fun challenge.
"This is the office building of a cutting edge architect firm. The firm is known for it's grand buildings with heavy concrete look mixed with beatiful and odd shapes. Their own office building is a great example of their unique style. This style gathered also a lot of negative reactions from the public and the building received a not so flattering name of "Car Park". It's the type of building that at first sticks out like a sore thumb but over time becomes a major landmark of the area."
Building something using only pieces from the Pick-a-Brick wall at your local LEGO Store can be fun, but building something that looks good is quite difficult. The limited palette of basic bricks, plates, very few SNOT pieces, and almost no slopes or wedges made this a challenge.
I'm just happy the Pick-a-Brick wall always has a few really useful pieces for advanced building, such as plates with clips which made the tail, fins, and mouth able to move.
What could be a more monumental way of commemorating the 2,777th anniversary of the Founding of Rome than by debuting Phase II of my SPQR diorama?
With Phase II now successfully added, the diorama grows to roughly 211,000 individual plastic bricks and represents several thousand hours of research, design and build time executed over two-and-a-half years!
A smile would belie the resolute burden of committing to recreating the entire Eternal City over many years, but I'm grateful to be tempered by a constant knowing that so many are paying close attention to this impossible overview; which 1 million fourth century inhabitants never knew themselves, and one which I can only hope to faithfully represent at this scale and in these media for millions to learn from today.
That which is done well enough, is done quickly enough. Festina lente.
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Photography: @eclarkephoto
Debut: @brickuniverseofficial
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A floating home by the sea. Modern and comfortable. The house is surrounded by a wooden deck and shallow water. A bridge connects the deck to the guay. Fully interiored as always. Kitchen, toilet and living room downstairs. Bathroom, bedroom and storage space upstairs. You find photos of the interiors in my photostream.
Inspiration comes from childhood summers and sailing with my parents. It was a challenge to catch the maritime feeling with details such as railings and stays and at the same time keep the design clean and modern.
I used dark blue bricks to create the water surface. The more common technique with transparent tiles or plates wasn't really on option because it didn't fit in the colour scheme.
What could be a more monumental way of commemorating the 2,777th anniversary of the Founding of Rome than by debuting Phase II of my SPQR diorama?
With Phase II now successfully added, the diorama grows to roughly 211,000 individual plastic bricks and represents several thousand hours of research, design and build time executed over two-and-a-half years!
A smile would belie the resolute burden of committing to recreating the entire Eternal City over many years, but I'm grateful to be tempered by a constant knowing that so many are paying close attention to this impossible overview; which 1 million fourth century inhabitants never knew themselves, and one which I can only hope to faithfully represent at this scale and in these media for millions to learn from today.
That which is done well enough, is done quickly enough. Festina lente.
Support this unprecedented project on Patreon!
Link below ➡️🔗⤵️
www.patreon.com/RoccoButtliere
Photography: @eclarkephoto
Debut: @brickuniverseofficial
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My newest addition to the Wasabi District. About 3000 pieces and the size of a typical CREATOR Expert corner building.
Irish Pub on the first floor, while a hostel is situated on the 2nd and 3rd floors.
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.
Metropolis' take on the iconic Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Also inspired from a much earlier version.
A real-life comparison and digital model evolution graphic I did, inspired by LEGO Architecture's blueprint graphics on box packaging. The MOC is almost perfectly to scale with the real building, the only differences being the shape of the dome and the placement of arches of windows, due to the limitations of LEGO bricks at this scale.
The assembly makes it look simple, but designing amid the endless variations in topography has been quite challenging!
⛰️ This subsection of the Palatine Hill proved to be fertile ground for one of my preferred methods of integrating hillside streets.
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Brickish LUG selected me to represent them in a build challenge using 100 LEGO Star Wars Magazine foil bags provided by Fairy Bricks Charity.
With no building plan in mind, this MOC became something resembling the Sky Pirates storyline from LEGO NinjaGo.
️ Built to commemorate the deified Augustus shortly after his death in 14 CE, the temple would have been ordered by the Senate and overseen by Augustus' successor, Tiberius and/or his widow, Livia Drusilla. ️
Although its exact location has never been found, we know of this temple's existence and iconography - like so many other monuments - from ancient coinage of the first century.
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Building something using only pieces from the Pick-a-Brick wall at your local LEGO Store can be fun, but building something that looks good is quite difficult. The limited palette of basic bricks, plates, very few SNOT pieces, and almost no slopes or wedges made this a challenge.
I'm just happy the Pick-a-Brick wall always has a few really useful pieces for advanced building, such as plates with clips which made the tail, fins, and mouth able to move.
Th Ed Sullivan Theatre showing CBS's Late Show with Steven Colbert [digital WIP]
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The awesome taxi is a moc by T.Bricks (thilo-schoen.de). He has more cool models and even writes books, go check him out! TV camera and piano a based on mocs by Kristel (rebrickable.com/users/Kristel/) and SleepyCow (rebrickable.com/users/SleepyCow/) Thanks so much for being so generous! ❤️
The People of Rome have spoken and requested all 7️⃣ minutes in one video!
▶️ Please do me a favor and check it out on YouTube!
My newest addition to the Wasabi District. About 3000 pieces and the size of a typical CREATOR Expert corner building.
Irish Pub on the first floor, while a hostel is situated on the 2nd and 3rd floors.
️ SPQR - Phase I ️
▶️ Watch the Model Film in 4K on YouTube:
▶️ Intro to SPQR Project:
Support this unprecedented project on Patreon:
www.patreon.com/RoccoButtliere
Parts: 104,000+ (~1,700 unique)
Scale: 1:650
Dimensions: 57in x 289in (143cm x 231cm)
Research Time: 2,000+ hours since 2019
Design Time: 1,000+ hours in 200 days
Build Time: 600+ hours in 90 days
Photography: EClarke Photo 📷
© MMXXIII - Rocco Buttliere, LLC
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!
Check out @wooootles on Instagram to find some WIP/under construction pics!
Presenting my LEGO Architecture interpretation of Caerphilly Castle; a commissioned model for Cadw with Little Big Art.
I’ve captured and replicated the architectural essence of Caerphilly Castle, such as the iconic leaning tower and the ruins across the landmark.
The structure is designed to provide a true-to-life colour and relative scale depiction adding an extra dimension and feel of authenticity to this detailed recreation of Wales’ biggest castle!
Highlights
-Blogged On BBC.co.uk:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-37185546
-Blogged On ITV.com:
www.itv.com/news/wales/2016-08-25/how-you-can-help-caerph...
-Blogged On WalesOnline.co.uk:
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/what-caerphilly-cas...
-LEGO Ideas:
That is, if i was to build that half of the city as well, this is roughly the view you would see from the tower.