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A modular sporting goods store inspired by Mikimoto Building in Tokyo, Japan. Front facade is removable. About 3250 pieces. Computer rendering but buildable if you have the bricks.
As you can see, the micropolis is split into four equal sections which are specially build to split up without having to take anything apart for transport.
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.
The two arcades at the northern corners of the Jilaukhana are known as Khawasspuras. Following the completion of the complex in 1653, these courtyards served as quarters for those charged with maintaining the site and for those involved in funeral and burial ceremonies. Today, the Khawasspuras contain the offices of the staff at Taj Mahal. One popular myth surrounding Taj Mahal is that Shah Jahan ordered his soldiers to cut off the hands of all his masons so that no future works could ever rival the beauty of his magnum opus. In reality, this fable conflicts heavily with the evidence of a vast settlement directly south of Taj Mahal. Known as Taj Ganj, this precinct was similarly planned along the central axis, and served as both a caravansary and quarters for the many thousands of workers who built Taj Mahal. Although the Taj Ganj eventually fell into disrepair, it was replaced by the dense dwellings of urban sprawl prevalent throughout modern Agra. And while their descendants’ presumably more illustrious dwellings are long gone, the progeny of many of the original builders still live here and play a vital role in the upkeep and ongoing restorations works of the complex, using the same techniques their ancestors have passed down over nearly four centuries.
This is a Lego modular of the F-town Building located in Sendai, Japan by architect Atelier Hitoshi Abe. About 8500 bricks of which over 3000 are white 1x1 plates. 😂 Computer rendering but only existing bricks were used. Reference images.
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... And the Colosseum was once its gleaming beacon!
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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".
Sometimes you start a MOC and it takes several years to complete it, and then another year to take proper photos of it. This is one of those MOCs.
This is my deep dive into modular buildings. So far I really like it? It is fun to create buildings that are made of all these bits of inspiration of Portland locations. The art store is a love letter to the now defunct Art Media in downtown Portland.
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Parts: 104,000+ (~1,700 unique)
Scale: 1:650
Dimensions: 57in x 289in (143cm x 231cm)
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Design Time: 1,000+ hours in 200 days
Build Time: 600+ hours in 90 days
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LEGO scale model of 'De Krook' city library in Ghent, Belgium.
Scale 1:500
Dimensions: 35 x 19 cm
~1500 parts
On December 21, 2019, I traveled to the Florida State Fairgrounds to visit the Annual Train Show held at the State Fair Grounds. At the show, there were several operating Layouts of various sizes & Gauges, along with Model Trains, Model Cars, Railroad Themed T-Shirts, Hats, Coffee Mugs and various other Memorabilia.
This particular photograph shows a Scale Model Wind Turbine (aka: Electricity Generator, aka: Windmill) at the Train Show at the Florida Fairgrounds.
I am really happy with how the top of the tower came out! I was able to get the slope to match the roof and get the observation area to look really close to reality.
Next I have to do a colour pass on it and add a touch more colour.
My client is extremely impressed with the progress thus far, even though the project is going to much larger than originally intended :D
Currently, the tower stands 72.6 cm (29.7")
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'Darion Aiulf da Fortebraccio' and his eyes and ears in the sky 'Gaita' are back for another adventure.
So this is where the story continues!
First batch of detailshots will follow later today
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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.
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The median of this mighty Roman circus featured a shallow pool and was adorned with temples and spoils from across the empire, including a pair of red granite obelisks from Egypt and statues representing the celestial bodies / deities!
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A modern house for a family with kids. Fully furnished. Architecture is inspired by functionalism and clean lines. About 6800 bricks. Computer rendering but buildable if you have the bricks.
Throwback to a moc that I created two years ago. New renderings and some minor changes from the original moc. 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. Computer rendering but only existing bricks were used.
Hamnspången is a walking and cycling bridge in central Uppsala over the Fyris River. The bridge is designed as a Dutch counterbalance bridge (lifting bridge or drawbridge, in Dutch ophaalbrug). The lego model is unfortunately not openable. Computer rendering but buildable if you have the bricks.
While the borders of Vatican City are well-defined in law, it would be impossible to separate the Vatican from the rest of the Eternal City when it comes to that one fundamental and indispensable resource: water. The extents of the Roman aqueduct system were vast and, as a result, the greatest feat of engineering executed during the Imperial era. As referenced in the penultimate photo of my SPQR piece, the system spanned more than 300 miles in length, or roughly 183 Golden Gate Bridges. In total, they supplied enough daily fresh water to accommodate 144 public toilets, 900 Roman baths, and 1,300 fountains. Though they are mostly newer than the fountains of antiquity, present-day Vatican City features more than 100 fountains, most of which are interspersed among the gardens. The Shell Fountain, pictured here, is but one example of the gardens’ more prominent waterworks features. Accordingly, it features an equally one-of-a-kind LEGO element in its representation: a large seashell element!
A modular sporting goods store inspired by Mikimoto Building in Tokyo, Japan. Front facade is removable. About 3250 pieces. Computer rendering but buildable if you have the bricks.
Here's some WIP images of my latest project. I have been working on this the past month or so. Please check @wooootles on Instagram, as I tend to put more WIP images there (whereas my Flickr has more finished images)
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.
It's not every day you find a use for Battle Droid heads!
⛰️ This enormous colonnade of the Domus Augustana overlooked the Circus Maximus!
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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.
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!
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⛰️ The Cermalus is the smaller of the two Palatine hilltops.
It was once home to the sprawling Domus Tiberiana, Domus Augusti and the Temple of Apollo Palatinus.
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It was not uncommon for High Renaissance or Early Baroque architecture to evoke ancient, sometimes pagan symbolism in an effort to illicit fundamental truths. Indeed, this was one aspect of the Humanism movement pioneered by the merchants and artisans of Florence in the early Renaissance. Though there is no direct evidence of intent on Bernini’s part to incorporate such ideals in the design of the ovato tondo, there is, nevertheless, a recently theorized abundance of intriguing deeper symbolism throughout. For one, when facing the center of the piazza from the west, the ends of the colonnades (pictured bottom) approximately mark the positions of sunrise on the winter and summer solstices. Additionally, the pavement surrounding the obelisk was marked with marble disks in 1817. These disks denote the Meridian line and are passed over by the shadow of the obelisk throughout the day- essentially making the obelisk the gnomon of a sundial. The pavement design was also originally inlaid with lines radiating out from the center, as seen today and here in the model. These lines form a cross as well as an oblique cross. Perhaps most interestingly, the obelisk is known to have originated in Heliopolis, or Iunu as it was known in Ancient Egyptian times before the latinized form of the Greek name. Iunu actually means “the Pillars” (likely referring to the large number of obelisks in the ancient city) and the hieroglyphs which form this name consist of three symbols, one of which is an oblique cross. Of course, hieroglyphs were never well understood until after the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799 long after Bernini’s design. This likely precludes any chance that Bernini understood the symbolic significance of placing this particular obelisk at the center of one of the symbols for the place where it was made, but it is still quite fascinating, nonetheless.
The concept of being informed by precedent was no less omnipresent while designing my interpretation of Bernini’s ovato tondo. From macro to micro; the oval-tracing colonnades were based on techniques using 1x2 rounded plates I had first implemented for the design of the Circus Maximus, Domus Augustana, and Flavian Amphitheatre in my SPQR piece; the more or less seamless diagonal stonework of the plaza is an extension of the method used in my second iteration of the Austin J. Tobin Plaza of the former World Trade Center; the inlaid curved edges where the piazza opens on either of the broad sides is a method I first used for the visitor center of my Mount Rushmore National Memorial piece; and finally, embedding partially protruding technic link treads within the base to represent bollards is a method I recently pioneered for balustrades in Forbidden City. Just as the heritage of Vatican City teaches us, past is certainly prologue.
My new Guardian Building model made its debut as part of the annual Michigan LEGO Train Club (MichLTC) display at the Henry Ford Museum on November 23rd, 2014. I believe that this display which contains six skyscraper models over 5 feet high is MichLTCs largest LEGO skyline EVER! The display runs from November 24th through January 4th, 2015.
Detroit building models in the layout include the following (*= I built it):
1. Guardian Building*
2. Buhl Building
3. Ford Building*
4. Greater Penobscot Building (includes 1905, 1913, and 1928 Penobscot Buildings)*
5. Savoyard Center*
6. Dime Building / Chrysler House
7. David Stott Building*
8. 25 State Street (former Cunningham Drugs / Colonial Dept. store)*
9. Union Depot train station*
10. 1001 Woodward.
There are more photos in my www.brickshelf.com folder.
Donna Terek of the Detroit News did a story (posted December 7, 2014) about my hobby:
www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/donna-terek/...
Disclaimer: It was not my idea to use the term "towering ambition".
Also on December 7, 2014, Jim Schaefer of the Detroit Free Press posted a story which he called "A Few Minutes With... A LEGO Extremist" !
www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2014/12/07/minute...
This is a Lego modular of the F-town Building located in Sendai, Japan by architect Atelier Hitoshi Abe. About 8500 bricks of which over 3000 are white 1x1 plates. 😂 Computer rendering but only existing bricks were used. Reference images.
Here is without doubt the most difficult moc I have ever made and also the most fragile.
The many angles gave me lots of difficulties and it was hard to hide the gaps and spaces between the three houses.
To be honest sometimes this moc was a nightmare 😆 but I am really proud of the result and the realism.
I hope you'll enjoy it.
Thanks to all Mocers that gave me inspiration.
No, no I could not 🚫
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A modern house for a family with kids. Fully furnished. Architecture is inspired by functionalism and clean lines. About 6800 bricks. Computer rendering but buildable if you have the bricks.
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.
Like so much else at Taj Mahal, the addition of strikingly slender minarets at each of the four corners of Mughal mausoleums had been rather newly incorporated into the lexicon of Mughal architecture by the time Shah Jahan set out to build his most glorious monument. Each of the towers are set upon the octagonal corners of the marble plinth and consist of three main sections ringed with balconies. The minarets rise to a height of 131 ft (40 m), and are, indeed, working minarets which allow for a muezzin to call the Islamic faithful to prayer from their utmost balconies. The towers are topped by chhatris and finials in much the same way as the small domes of the mausoleum. In addition, they were also erected slightly out of plumb (angled away from the tomb) so as to not damage the mausoleum in the event of their collapse. Such a precautionary design consideration was given to most minarets of the time, though few had ever stood at the corners of a Mughal mausoleum before Taj Mahal.