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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!
Modern living at split levels. Three kinds of sections - striped, brown and olive green.
In Olive Sand House I combine the desertlike surroundings and olive green/tan colour scheme of Whitebrick Sand House with the striped architecture of for example Green Rock House, Calmwater Cliff House and Vanilla House that has in some way become my trademark.
Modern living at split levels. Three kinds of sections - striped, brown and olive green.
In Olive Sand House I combine the desertlike surroundings and olive green/tan colour scheme of Whitebrick Sand House with the striped architecture of for example Green Rock House, Calmwater Cliff House and Vanilla House that has in some way become my trademark.
️ SPQR - Phase I ️
▶️ Watch the Model Film in 4K on YouTube:
▶️ Intro to SPQR Project:
Support this unprecedented project on Patreon:
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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
Eiffel was very much a product of his times; a student of the sciences who had the rare ability to both envision a project of ambitious scope and to successfully finance its realization in such a way it seems almost inevitable in hindsight ...
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.
️ 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
This build is part of a larger display I’m developing for exhibition next year, where I’ll be revisiting and expanding on the concept of Neo Fabuland—a reinterpretation of the classic Fabuland aesthetic, much like how Neo-Classic Space draws inspiration from the original Classic Space theme. If you’re curious, you can read more about the goals of the project here.
I currently have several builds in progress for this display, and this is the first one to be completed.
While not directly based on any specific Fabuland set, this watermill draws loose inspiration from 3679 Flour Mill and Shop. It features a weathered stone-and-timber structure beside a millpond, complete with a working waterwheel, lily pads, reeds, and rounded rocks. The water cascades over the rocks to form a small waterfall. I’m especially pleased with the textures throughout—the flowing water, the stonework, and the building itself—as well as a custom spreading tree technique I developed for this scene (and will likely reuse in future Neo Fabuland builds).
This build also showcases my approach to Neo Fabuland windows, using brick-built frames with vinyl-cut sticker panes to echo the distinctive charm of original Fabuland designs.
The Harold Washington Library, located in Chicago, is a striking example of postmodernism. The library was completed in 1991, and the LEGO version uses 407 pieces.
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.
This is just the 21023 set of Flatiron Building in New York City from Lego Architecture series... :)
Kitchen of Calmwater Cliff House MOC. Open plan with dining area and kitchen.
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 is very experimental and may change in the near future. The initial building has 816 1x2 trans clear plates and 36 trans clear cheese slopes. Currently the building would be the third tallest in Brickville.
This will be the ONLY all trans skyscraper. Ever.
One either side of the east-west ends of the Charbagh, stand identical Naubat Khana, or “Drum Houses.” Each of the Naubat Khana are positioned along the crenellated walls at the terminus of the water channels. While both largely provide punctuation along the otherwise continuous arcade of the perimeter walls, their functional uses have varied between housing water tanks for irrigation when first built, to the west Naubat Khana serving as the Taj Mahal Museum today. Both are increased in prominence by the marble-domed chhatris at the rooftop as well as intricately tiled, raised porches facing the center of the Charbagh.
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.
The third LEGO skyscraper goes up in Wasabi District!
I tried to make the rooftop one of the most detailed mechanical / HVAC LEGO layouts out there..
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
This work in progress is LEGO model of a mid-rise structure in or near downtown Detroit. The image shows a portion of the building that is just over half the footprint of the soon to be completed model.
Presumably it is not quite as obscure as my recently completed DTE substation.
Leave a comment if you know the identity of the real building!
Ebisu East Gallery is a wedding venue and restaurant located in Tokyo, Japan. Modular building is constructed of about 8000 bricks and the back and one side can be opened.
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.
Model Info:
The model has 2097 pieces and measures 65.92 x 16.16 x 20.48 (x,y,z) centimeters, (25.95 x 6.36 x 8,06 inches). The idea is try to respect the real proportion of the aqueduct.
Motivation:
As a fan of the LEGO Architecture series, I was surprised there were no official sets of this monument one of the most important sturcture of the ancient Roman Empire a collossal engineer structure.
Help me too reach the second step of 1000 support :)
ideas.lego.com/projects/168415b1-e5dc-47fc-97dd-80e8e53004fe
Presenting a 1:2200 scale model of Perth CBD and surrounding area.
- 90 hours over 3 months
- 18,376 Bricks
- 78x78cm in size
The third LEGO skyscraper goes up in Wasabi District!
I tried to make the rooftop one of the most detailed mechanical / HVAC LEGO layouts out there..
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
A simple build showing a classic front door entranceway with some stylish planters and a nice Holiday wreath. Happy Holidays everyone!
️ 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
In addition to the waters of the Acqua Paolo from which they sprang, the Vatican Gardens originated, in large part, due to Pope Nicholas III’s love of meditating among shady pines and his fascination with the medicinal properties of plants. This interest continued under his successor, Nicholas IV, who tasked his doctor, Simon of Genoa, with cultivating various herbs and plants in an effort to distill arcane remedies and healing tinctures. It was this thirteenth-century papal initiative that resulted in more than just the first botanical garden in Europe (known as the Viridarium Novum), but also provided a key stepping stone in the development of the formal scientific study of plants, or botany, as a branch of medicine.
While I would like to think my methods of designing and building a new landscape piece are just as scientific a process, I do enjoy the occasional self-indulgent departure from vernacular. That is why I hope you’ll indulge me further by spying the two biblical Easter eggs, both of which are on full view in this shot!
MichLTC's 10 x 35 foot display is at the Henry Ford Museum from November 21, 2012 to January 6, 2013.
A crop duster skims over Ken's farm.
Artsand House MOC is a flirt with brutalism. A modern home with art gallery, spa and large bedroom with a garden view. Quadrangular concrete house bodies meet organic nature. A dog is waiting for the owner to come home.
In August 2019 I displayed some of my houses at the Kloss på Kloss exhibition in Hässleholm, Sweden. A visitor asked me if I didn´t have any brutalist houses. I said no and explained that it probably would be too boring. It would be hard to create the dynamics needed to make a modern house MOC interesting. After the exhibition I started thinking and decided to give brutalism a chance. Not purist brutalism, but rather contemporary architecture flirting with brutalism...
SBD 10001 French Palace, Modular Lego House. Design by Stefano Mapelli ©2014. info@stebrick.com
Buy Instructions at: stebrick.e-junkie.com
This build is created exclusively with parts from the LEGO Architecture set Las Vegas (21047). I got that set from my husband as a Christmas gift and couldn't help experimenting a bit...
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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This four-sided hall of columns held aloft the roof of the AULA REGIA!
The enormous "Audience Hall" of the Domus Augustana rose to such lofty heights, it was the height of a modern 10-story building!
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Hey guys! I haven't uploaded anything in a while here. Still wanted to show you some WIPs of recent builds, in case you haven't seen them on Insta already. Enjoy.
LEGO scale model of the Saint Nicholas Church and Corn Market in Ghent, Belgium.
Scale 1:500
Dimensions: 25.5 x 25.5 cm
~2500 parts
Combined LEGO scale models of the Saint Nicholas church, contemporary city pavilion and medieval Belfry tower and in Ghent, Belgium.
Scale 1:500
Combined dimensions: 53 x 27.5 cm
~4300 parts in total
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.
This historic precedent of Colonial Georgian Architecture sits at the heart of Philadelphia's old city center. Independence Hall also played a crucial role in the founding of the United States, as its storied assembly rooms witnessed the signing of both the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitution in 1787.
Situated in Hoi Tan Street of Sham Shui Po, the Kwan Tai Temple is the only temple in Kowloon to house the deity of Guan Yu from the Three Kingdoms period. Behind the entrance paifang, a courtyard was created to contain a Chinese pavilion and a censer at centre. Kwan Tai Temple was originally abutting the sea. The site was soon become an inland area after several reclaimations. Right behind the temple, there is the Sham Shui Po Public Dispensary, a Grade II historical building which also worths a visit.
深水埗關帝廟位於海壇街同界限街交界，最早建於光緒十七年前，並曾於1894年和2010年重修，是九龍唯一主奉關帝的廟宇，曾稱為協天宮和武帝廟。經正門進入，在牌坊之後是一個庭院，中間設有香爐，左側則建有玉仙亭。關帝廟本來建於海邊，背後有一座小山，後來經多次填海後已變成內陸地方，而小山也被移平建屋，廟宇的正背面的是二級歷史建築「深水埔公立醫局」。
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️ The Colosseum was built both to cement the Flavian dynasty firmly in the hearts & minds of Roman citizens, and to return a portion of Rome back to its people after so much had been swallowed up by Nero's personal residence. ️
🗽 It was the proximity of the enormous bronze Colossus that gave the Flavian Amphitheatre its colloquial name during the middle ages. 🗽
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️ 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
Independence Hall - Philadelphia
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