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An alternative way of creating shadow effects in Lego. The roof was loose and adjustable so I could create the feeling that the light was comin from a light in the ceiling above the door and to give some exciting shadow effects in the stairs.
Here it is, my newest model, the Woolworth Building.
This model stands at 63cm tall and contains ~8,500 pieces, built at a 1:400 scale. There is a lot of techniques I had to come up with to be able to get all of the details in the
façade and the roof. The details of the Woolworth Building are so intricate that it would be impossible to include everything at this scale but I tried my best to make it work. I'm really happy with the way it has turned out and I can't wait to get started on my next build....
The Woolworth Building is an early American skyscraper located in Manhattan, New York City.Designed by architect Cass Gilbert, it was the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1930, with a height of 792 feet (241 m). Located in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood, The 60-story structure consists of a 30-story tower situated atop a 30-story base.
Its facade is mostly decorated with terracotta (though the lower portions are limestone) and contains thousands of windows.
The skyscraper was originally conceived by F. W. Woolworth, the founder of a brand of popular five-and-ten-cent stores, as a headquarters for his company. Woolworth planned the skyscraper jointly with the Irving National Exchange Bank, which also agreed to use the structure as its headquarters.
Construction started in 1910, and it was completed two years later. The Woolworth Building underwent several changes throughout its history.
The top thirty floors, formerly used as office space, were sold to a developer in 2012 and subsequently converted into residences. The remainder of the building remains in use by office and commercial tenants.
Building-A-Day 22: 1217 Pierce St - Pappas Bar-B-Q and Caroline Street Clinic
This scale is tough with these smaller buildings. Challenge. Accepted.
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I'm so proud to present you one of my personal MOC, designed by me and nobody else! :)
This is the faithful model of the Cathedral of Trani, my hometown in Puglia (Italy).
The scale is very similar to the one of Lego Architecture style, as usual.
I designed it in Studio before, and in the end I also managed to build it, with the important help (and tolerance!) of my wife Malwina! :*
On July 1st, I installed my recently completed commission piece depicting the Hawthorn Mall redevelopment! You can see the full diorama for yourself on the second-level in the Transformation Suite at the mall in Vernon Hills, IL.
PC: eClarke Photo 📷
Full selection of photos on Patreon!
Link below ➡️🔗⤵️
The name says it all. These are just facades of buildings done to display at the back of any city layout. Kind of block the 'behind the table space'.
️ 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
Cuboid Garden House MOC kitchen.
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.
Hidden Home Park is an underground modern, sustainable home hidden in a green park. Trees, bushes and flowers. A roof and an atrium garden. Kitchen garden with herbs. Three patios with lots of windows. Two ponds and a bench where you can meditate. Two bee hives symbolize the symbiosis of animals, plants and humans.
It is my entry to the Swebrick contest Master Builder of the Year 2017 ending on March 1st 2018.
️ 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
️ 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
Parts: 8,500+ (~490 unique)
Scale: 1:650
Dimensions: 13.5in x 16in (34cm x 40cm)
PC: Eric Clarke
© MMXXII - Rocco Buttliere, LLC
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Yes, this is the Beast's castle! So dark, so baroque, so majestic! It's a MOC created by me starting from another one, the one by jm_rkuhtect that you can find and download from Rebrickable website. I fell in love with it at first sight! I modified it in colors and dimensions, shrinking it and bringing it back to the same Architecture scale of the other sets and castles.
Check out the other MOC on jm_rkuhtect's page! He is so talented!
Lego microbuild of UKK, a concert hall and convention centre in Uppsala, Sweden. UKK was designed by Copenhagen-based architectural firm Henning Larsen and was officially opened on 1 September 2007. 2205 bricks.
I have decided to remake my Bilbo's library Moc so that it can fit in the big Lego showcase (best way to fight against the dust 😅).
It was also a way to reduce the floor that was a bit too massive in the previous version. We have lost the woodbeam but they were very fragile.
I hope you will like this version too .
Building-A-Day 17 IRL: It's not vaporware! 😁
I'll be interspersing in-real-life builds with new designs, along with upcoming new brickatures after a very long break to get my studio back together!
Support our epic build of the entire downtown Houston, and get on Sponsors' Row! PM me for details or visit
www.gofundme.com/f/micro-houston-brick-display
Sponsors at the $500 level and above qualify for a custom build on "Sponsors' Row". This is a row of blocks located at the front of the model!
Visit our club at www.houstonbrickclub.com
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 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.
I currently have several builds in progress for this display, and this is the second one to be completed.
This build is not inspired by an existing Fabuland set. It features a stucco rendered brick train station building with a tiled roof on a stone platform perched on a hilltop. The build includes a cutaway bridge underpass and rounded rocks as well as my spreading tree technique.
The train in this build is based on the engine from 910035 Logging Railway and 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 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!
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.
Hidden Home Park is an underground modern, sustainable home hidden in a green park. Trees, bushes and flowers. A roof and an atrium garden. Kitchen garden with herbs. Three patios with lots of windows. Two ponds and a bench where you can meditate. Two bee hives symbolize the symbiosis of animals, plants and humans.
It is my entry to the Swebrick contest Master Builder of the Year 2017 ending on March 1st 2018.
️ 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 LEGO display at the Saginaw Castle Museum also includes a Detroit section which includes two of my LEGO models.
Building-A-Day 28: St Joseph Professional Building
Support our epic build of the entire downtown Houston, and get on Sponsors' Row! PM me for details or visit
www.gofundme.com/f/micro-houston-brick-display
Sponsors at the $500 level and above qualify for a custom build on "Sponsors' Row". This is a row of blocks located at the front of the model!
Visit our club at www.houstonbrickclub.com
First Floor.
Converted from the Palace Cinema, this is the establishment that it was yearning to be. With elements from Ninjago and a kitchen stocked from an extra Parisian Cafe, this restaurant has had it's footprint expanded to allow easy dining for all minifigs who want a nice asian meal.
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".
If Paris had a face, it would certainly be this one! What other landmark could represent this city better than the two iconic towers of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral?
(Credit: Design by Rocco J. Buttliere)
These buildings are based on certain architectural elements found in NYC. Especially the fire escape in front, a corner deli and neighborhood restaurants.
Building-A-Day 26: 1819 Crawford St - St Joseph Womens Medical Center
Support our epic build of the entire downtown Houston, and get on Sponsors' Row! PM me for details or visit
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Sponsors at the $500 level and above qualify for a custom build on "Sponsors' Row". This is a row of blocks located at the front of the model!
Visit our club at www.houstonbrickclub.com
Building-A-Day 10: 1505 Louisiana St - Bright Horizons (+bonus parking!)
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Stay tuned for what Sponsors' row is and what it means when we present our first sponsor!
️ 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
A series of vaulted ARCHES containing VAST corridors, typically forming a plinth for structures above!
🙆 The ARCH was the primary structural innovation of the Ancient Romans!
With it, they tamed the steep, volcanic hills of Rome and rugged terrain throughout their vast empire!
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Building-A-Day 25: 1401 St Joseph Pkwy - St Joseph Medical Center Emergency Room
Support our epic build of the entire downtown Houston, and get on Sponsors' Row! PM me for details or visit
www.gofundme.com/f/micro-houston-brick-display
Sponsors at the $500 level and above qualify for a custom build on "Sponsors' Row". This is a row of blocks located at the front of the model!
Visit our club at www.houstonbrickclub.com
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.
Larry's replicas of three structures from Greenfield Village. A blue Model T motors by (note that they did sell the cars in colors other than black but Ford charged more for those colors so most people purchased them in black).
The MichLTC display runs from November 27, 2009 to January 3, 2010 in conjunction with the LEGO Castle Adventure exhibit at The Henry Ford.