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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.
With no shortage of novelties in its pioneering design, the existing framework of the Charbagh typology was reworked specifically for Taj Mahal. Traditionally, the mausoleum would have been located at the center of the Charbagh; as expressed in the central position of Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi, built nearly a century earlier than Taj Mahal. The reasons for this break from tradition are not precisely known and, understandably, are the subject of considerable controversy among scholars. One of the more widely accepted theories is that this type of Charbagh is the result of considerable Indian influence over Mughal architecture. Specifically, the Charbagh were adapted as more secular waterfront gardens which were both more conducive to religious purposes as well as the conditions of the Indian plains where slow-flowing rivers were the primary water source. Another theory suggests that the little-known Midnight Garden on the opposite bank of the river Yamuna may have been part of the overall scheme, which would have resulted in the mausoleum being centered after all, among a complex that includes the width of the river. Whatever the case, it is clear that the eccentric placement of Mumtaz Mahal’s tomb is ultimately one more way in which the Taj Mahal is singular in the annals of Mughal architecture.
A comprehensive, 60-page digital book highlighting the historical precedence of Eiffel Tower alongside the high-resolution images of the piece is now available at www.roccobuttliere.com/shop/eiffel-tower-digital-book. The second half of this book provides extensive insights into the design + build process of this 7,900-part, scale LEGO model; insights which were previously only available to subscribers on Patreon. Don’t miss out on this inspiring and concept-to-completion highlight of one of my most iconic works!
️ CAPITOLINE HILL ️
In 155 CE, Greek writer Aristides Quintilianus compared the way in which the buildings of Rome covered its hills to a snowfall, writing "Wherever one stands, it is all around you." This analogy was more deeply felt in the roughly ten days spent redesigning the Capitoline Hill than at any other point thus far in my redesign efforts.
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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 Michigan LEGO User Group (MichLUG) display at the Henry Ford Museum from November 12, 2017 to January 6, 2018. As usual, the display is on the east side of the museum past the giant Allegheny locomotive.
Cuboid Garden House MOC bedroom with a bed for two. Low evening light coming in through large windows facing the wooden deck and garden.
As lamp I´ve used a paint roller handle.
This house has a number of cuboid bodies linked together by a dark blue tiled hallway hosting a spiral staircase. Large glass windows offer a view of the ground floor and roof garden. Solar panels and home grown vegetables contribute to a sustainable way of living.
The Tripoli Shrine Center is located in Milwaukee, WI. The non-religious building opened in 1928 and is heavily inspired from the Taj Mahal.
The LEGO model uses 369 pieces.
️ 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
Fiserv Forum is located in Milwaukee, WI, US and is home to the Milwaukee Bucks and Marquette Golden Eagles. The arena opened in 2018.
This is my first original build in over 18 months. The model uses 112 parts, though one brown curved slope is unconnected.
Court house 13905 Lego® Bricks Design by Stefano Mapelli ©2021 Stebrick www.stebrick.com Video:
The legacy of Eiffel Tower is rooted in more than just its iconic form. From the onset of radio transmissions in the early 20th century, the tower proved invaluable for radio transmissions ...
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.
Modular buildings, based (loosely) on the free plans, provided by Kristel, on the Rebrickable site (rebrickable.com/mocs/kjw010/candy-lane), as well as on Kristel's site, (<a href="https://modularsbykristel.com/"
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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Visitors to Vatican City have the option of climbing between the double walls of the dome to the lantern at its summit. The view from above captures the silhouettes of the thirteen statues adorning Maderno’s façade against the expansive St. Peter’s Square. In reality, this view extends down the 500-meters long Via della Conciliazione to Castel Sant’Angelo at the edge of the Tiber River.
Building-A-Day 14: 1625 & 1725 Main St. - SkyHouse Houston
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The Michigan LEGO User Group (MichLUG) display at the Henry Ford Museum from November 12, 2017 to January 6, 2018. As usual, the display is on the east side of the museum past the giant Allegheny locomotive.
Mongolian/Turkic yurt, with the sort of trimmings and extras you might find on a particularly important one.
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.
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 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.
This cut-away model of the Ford Piquette plant attempts to show the construction techniques of old mill style factory buildings. The Piquette plant had load bearing brick walls with wooden beams supporting two layer wooden floors. Albert Kahn's reinforced concrete factory designs as exemplified in the Ford Highland Park factory complex soon replaced this older style of factory.
Historic photos of the interior showed work tables along the windows and car chassis with only the front wheels installed in the middle. The fire doors on the 2nd and 3rd floor of the model are "functional" in that they slide open or closed. The "front office" portion of the building was longer than just the two bays depicted here; I used selective compression so I could show a portion of the "shop floor". While a few experiments with a moving assembly line were conducted at the Piquette plant, most cars were built in place with the workers bringing the various parts to the chassis.
The "LES" on the top of the exterior is the tail end of the slogan originally painted on the building "THE HOME OF THE CELEBRATED FORD AUTOMOBILES".
The model measures 20" L x 15" W x 12.5" high (50.8cm L x 38.1cm W x 21.7cm high). If I modeled the entire length of the factory, the model would have to be 107 inches (273 cm) long.
LEGO scale model of three medieval towers and their surroundings in Ghent, Belgium. Featuring the Saint Nicholas church, medieval Belfry tower and Saint Bavo’s Cathedral.
Scale 1:500
Combined dimensions: 116 x 32 cm
~10.000 parts in total
Building-A-Day 23 1401 St Joseph Pkwy - St Joseph Medical Center
I have some catching up to do... but this one took a bit more thought...
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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.
Modular buildings, based (loosely) on the free plans, provided by Kristel, on the Rebrickable site (rebrickable.com/mocs/kjw010/white-picket-fences), as well as on Kristel's site, (<a href="https://modularsbykristel.com/"
️ 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
️ 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 a LEGO replica of Charing Cross, the very centre of my home town of Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
Each year for Bendigo Bricks, Bendigo LEGO User Group’s annual brick show, I like to display something from Bendigo built out of LEGO bricks (in the past I have exhibited my Former Bendigo Fire Station and the Shamrock Hotel) and I decided that for Bendigo Bricks 2020 I was going to tackle a streetscape incorporating multiple facades. There are a number of places in Bendigo I could have chosen but I settled on Charing Cross this time as it has a good mix of different building styles.
Charing Cross is the intersection of View Street and Pall Mall and effectively stands at the centre of the city and is one of Bendigo’s busiest and most prominent intersections, check out the real place on Google StreetView here. In my build I wanted to capture Charing Cross on an average day featuring Bendigonian’s going about their daily lives.
My build includes four distinct facades, starting from left to right they are the Former Commercial Bank of Australia which stands at 11 View Point, 13-15 View Point, the beautiful art nouveau Former Royal Bank Building at 17 View Point and the Former Australian Mutual Provident Society Building at 21 View Point. I have tried to show these buildings as they appear today in their current uses.
Other features include Bendigo’s cenotaph, as well as a couple of elements that I built in the past, namely my Bendigo Bus and my Alexandra Fountain (though I have given it a new base in this build, one that is much more representive of its actual location).
I also wanted to include an iconic Bendigo Tram in this build and settled on No. 84. You can find out more about this historic tram here.
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 living room is the heart of the house connecting the bedrooms with the kitchen and bathroom. The architecture is inspired by atrium houses and winter gardens.
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.
Modern living inspired by old open-air-bath architecture as the house is standing on pillars in water and is offering an open space for bathing in the middle.
You enter the terrace through the rock on the backside of the house. On the terrace you find a small outdoor kitchen and table with chairs made of ladders and steering wheels. Kitchen, reading corner, livingroom and sauna with shower on first floor.
The house is entered from the terrace. A high plated wall goes though this floor leading from the hallway to the master bedroom and bathroom. Here you sleep with a 180 degrees sea view.
The floor below is reached by a floating staircase attached to the wall. A corridor with a resting chair (made of life preservers) and glass cabinet combines two parts of the house. One of them is hosting a kitchen and dining area. The other one is hosting a livingroom. Here you also find a small sauna and shower room with a ladder leading directly down to the water.
This is my third house built into a rock. The other two are called "Green Rock House" and "Calmwater Cliff House".