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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.
Building-A-Day 13: Fox 26 Studios
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‘law and order’ Precinct 1969 renovated in 1999. some colors are off due to lack of bricks. it will get an update once I’ll make an order of lego bricks
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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SBD 10001 French Palace, Modular Lego House. Design by Stefano Mapelli ©2014. info@stebrick.com
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Oh, finally I can upload photos of my MOC about a Trullo of Alberobello!
I know, a model of Trulli already exists and it was uploaded on Lego Ideas too by Renato Renna. Unfortunately I'm fast in designing a new MOC, but very slow in buying pieces and building... this project was born in summer 2020, but however only now I can show it to the world!
By the way, I think that our two MOCs are very different, both for dimensions, scale and building techniques! I love Architecture scale and designing every building in small dimensions!
For people who don't know it, this is a kind of rural and ancient building typical of Apulian country, in the south of Italy. There is also a small town, Alberobello, designated as a UNESCO World Heritage, built with a lot of Trulli!
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.
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".
In a glade shadowed by pine trees lies this house. It has a large terrace (to some extent inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater) and a cosy conservatory with garden view.
It might not be my most complex build so far, but it's still one of of my hardest to finish. In April, after years and years of hard work as a legal counsel with high speed approach and self-imposed performance requirements, I ran out of energy. My brain stopped co-operating and I lost my ability to focus. Since then, I have been struggling to recover and to find a balance both at work and in my creative process with LEGO. Thus, finishing Pineglade House MOC means a lot to me and I'm glad that I'm now on a more sustainable path ahead.
The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge is a bridge that spans over the Trinity River just west of Downtown Dallas. The bridge is designed by world renowned architect Santiago Calatrava, The cable-stayed bridge supports its 1870 ft length and 1197 ft main span with a steel arch whose peak's height is 400 ft. An array of twisting cables connect the underside of the arch's curved pylon to the bridge's platform. Fifty eight white steel cables descend from the arch and secure themselves along the centerline of the platform.
This LEGO model depicts a typical Albert Kahn designed reinforced concrete factory building that in circa 1910 began replacing the old mill style factory buildings such as the Ford Piquette Avenue factory.
This model is a portion of one of the seven buildings of the Russell Industrial Center. This complex was commissioned by the J W Murray Mfg. Co. in 1915. Albert Kahn's firm designed the buildings that make up the 2.2 million square feet site. It was completed in 1925 at which time the company was reorganized as the Murray Body Corporation. Before the Great Depression curtailed sales this company was the third largest supplier of car bodies to the automobile industry. After some years of disuse the now renamed Russell Industrial Center is home to an arts community/marketplace. The building has been modified over the years with some of the large windows being replaced by concrete blocks.
The LEGO model is 30" L x 30" W; it represents part of one building located in the northwest corner of the complex. The model contains many, many 1x2 dark red and red-brown plates for the bricks. Each of the large windows contains either 67 or 81 trans-clear elements. Light gray (old) is used to simulate the exposed reinforced concrete. The building has a semi-complete interior with floors but since I have not found any photos of the interior, there is no details as of yet.
The real building extends much farther than is depicted on the model; the rest of the building (nine more window bays) is identical to the section on the left under the sign. The sign is all LEGO; it was made possible by some recent LEGO sets called DOTS.
The Fontana della Galea, or Fountain of the Galleon (pictured center-left) is the work of Dutch architect Hans van Zanten, also known as Giovanni Vasanzio in Italy. The fountain’s centerpiece is a meticulously crafted lead replica of a galleon of the papal fleet. Here in the model, the galleon is represented by a printed “ship in a bottle” LEGO element!
To the right of the fountain stands a rectangular addition to the Belvedere Palace of Innocent VIII. Built within the protrusion is a double-helix staircase supported by Doric columns and paved in a herringbone pattern. Known as the Bramante Staircase, it was designed by the architect in 1505 so that Pope Julius II could remain in his carriage all the way to his residence on the top floor of the villa, without being interrupted by the comings and goings of support staff and clergymen. This logistical solution was the precedent for several similar solutions thereafter.
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!
My Lego model of the David Stott Building which stands about 7.5 feet to the roof. The dark orange and tan bricks were the closest colors available to approximate the color of the real building. The real building needs a good power washing. At the time of completion, this was my tallest Lego skyscraper.
Carport with electric car charger and bike.
Whitebrick Sand House is characterized by straight lines, glass and sandy colours. Placed in desertlike environment, yet close to civilization. Somewhere to relax.
Metropolis' take on the iconic Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Also inspired from a much earlier version.
The Cortile della Pigna is named for the large Pigna, or pinecone, framed by a niche at the north end of the courtyard. This four-meter bronze pinecone originally stood as the centerpiece of a fountain near the Pantheon next to the Temple of Isis & Serapis. At some point during antiquity, the Pigna was relocated to the courtyard of Old St. Peter’s Basilica, where it remained until 1608. By then, Pirro Ligorio took it upon himself to complete Bramante’s Cortile del Belvedere after the capomaestro’s death in 1514. Ligorio designed a vast niche at the end of the cortile where the Pigna has stood ever since. The Pigna is flanked by two bronze peacocks, both of which are copies of the ones in the Braccio Nuovo at the opposite end of the courtyard. The originals decorated the second-century Mausoleum of Hadrian, which is now Castel Sant’Angelo. Pictured here in the model is my 1x1 cone interpretation of the Pigna, bookended by a pair of sand green minifigure hands as peacocks!
The modern-day centerpiece of the Cortile della Pigna is the bronze Sfera Con Sfera, or Sphere Within a Sphere, by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro. Pomodoro’s famed sculptural depictions of huge, fractured orbs can be found in museums around the world. The one here in Vatican City is among the largest, measuring four meters (thirteen feet) in diameter, and was gifted to the Vatican by the artist himself in 1990. In keeping with virtually all abstract art, the meaning of what the fractured outer sphere that reveals a pristine inner sphere within might be is not precisely known. One common theory is that it represents the fragility of the modern world in its portrayal of a decaying outer shell, which gives way to more untouched, fundamental truths beneath the surface. If one thing is for certain, it’s that this was the perfect opportunity to use the rare, single-set “golden egg” and magnetic handle elements from the 2005 Harry & The Hungarian Horntail LEGO set!
This is my personal version of a MOC of Pyramids of Gyza in Egypt in Lego Architecture style.
I know... It is not so difficult to build a pyramid in LEGO :)
So I tried to imagine its context in the desert, with a little oasis and other little pyramids really existing in Gyza.
In truth, the oasis is my wife's contribution! :)
For the addiction of the Sphinx, I have to thank Kristi, a MOCcer here on Flickr, who enlightened me about how to build it in an amazing way!
One more MOC designed by another great AFOL, supermariolego. It is a model of the most famous statue in the world in a little scale, the same as the one of series of Lego Architecture. It includes the rare collectable minifigure of series 6.
Here the original MOC by supermariolego: www.flickr.com/photos/65462128@N08/6555109883/
Heralding the solemnity of the Mughal gardens within, the Darwaza-I Rauza is a rectangular building measuring approximately 135 ft x 112 ft (41 m x 34 m) and standing 75 ft (23 m) tall. Like most of the grander structures of Taj Mahal, the Great Gate – as it is colloquially known – is at once imposing in its massing, yet humbly inviting in its mindful material choices and intricate decorative elements. The corners of the Darwaza-I Rauza are bolstered by the addition of octagonal turrets composed mainly of red sandstone with polished plater and marble outlines; not unlike the bulwarks of the famed hill fortresses throughout Rajasthan. Indeed, it may well be this defensive posture that most successfully establishes the sobering transition it provides. Each of the four corners are surmounted by small pavilions beneath a traditional dome. In Indo-Islamic architecture, this motif is known as a chhatri. The four façades feature five iwan: rectangular halls, typically vaulted and enclosed on three sides. The grandest iwan on the north and south (pictured here) façades span the full height of the Darwaza and protrude inward forming a shallow vault lined with six small openings. The centermost, ground-level openings on either side form the doors through which visitors to the site may proceed to the gardens beyond.
Glass fence built on lever bases. Pool and dark tan sun bed. Calmwater Cliff House MOC.
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.
This build is a large castle/landscape display featuring The Knights of the Black Falcon and The Forest Guard.
First and foremost the aim of this build was to showcase what I love about those classic mid-80s Castle sets and specifically my two favourite factions. I have drawn inspiration from the original sets featuring each faction, specifically what I loved about them as a child and aimed to contrast that with what appeals to me as an adult builder.
The build features two fortresses side by side, Falkenholt Castle, the fortress of the Knights of the Black Falcon and an underground network of caves and tunnels that comprise the fortress of the Forest Guard.
Some of the elements that I am most happy with in this build are the level of detail and texture, the cross-section style cutaway on the edges of the build showing the internal structure of the castle as well as the geological layers of rock, clay and soil.
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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.
Entry to Archbrick Skyscraper Challenge arranged by BriXtar and Archbrick.
A futuristic building hosting a bank HQ. LBG and trans light-blue. On the ground you find a key statue, two water ponds and a fountain.
I really enjoyed building in nanoscale. Maybe there will be more.
It would be an understatement to refer to the riverside platform, known as the Chameli Farsh, as anything less than the most structurally critical aspect of Taj Mahal – both in terms of the initial construction efforts and the site’s long-term preservation therein. Situated 23 ft (7 m) above the river Yamuna and several steps above the Charbagh, the Chameli Farsh is the foundation terrace upon which the mausoleum, mosque and guesthouse of Taj Mahal rest. The daunting task of constructing this enormous pedestal fell, most likely, to Shah Jahan’s chief architect, Ustad Ahmad Lahori and supervisors Mir Abd-ul Karim and Makramat Khan. Lahori had already overseen the laying of foundations at the nearby Agra Fort, and together with Karim and Khan is believed to be the primary overseer of construction on Taj Mahal. Although, as one court chronicler noted, “[Shah Jahan made] appropriate alterations to whatever the skillful architects had designed after considerable thought and would ask the architects competent questions.” More than just a patron of great monuments, Shah Jahan was actively involved in the design process for numerous great works undertaken during his reign.
The technicalities for the construction of the Chameli Farsh were truly unprecedented among Mughal architecture. An area of roughly 3 acres (1.2 hectares) was excavated along the banks of the river Yamuna, at which point numerous wells were sunk, encased in timber, then filled with stones, iron and mortar. This method of foundation construction is not unlike that of modern-day piles and caissons. The remainder of the foundations were filled with dirt to reduce seepage and the platform was mostly completed by 1633 - along with the elevated marble and sandstone plinth upon which the mausoleum was to be built - just in time for the reinterment of the body of Mumtaz Mahal at the Chameli Farsh.
The narrow channels of water which divide the gardens into four quadrants are, themselves, representative of the promise of water, milk, wine and honey. Oriented along the cardinal points, the channels hearken back to the Muslim belief that paradise on Judgement Day will offer water to quench the thirst of the penitent. Even in Christian beliefs, similar tenets are expressed in Genesis, which describes the Garden of Eden as a four-fold layout, with four rivers flowing from a central spring. Elsewhere, cross axial garden precedents have existed independent of these Islamic and Christian beliefs; most notably, in the 5th century royal gardens of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka. While the stately Baroque gardens may have originated at the Vatican during the Renaissance, the inclusion of flowing water in garden design is verily the result of Islamic influence.
View from Broadway and W. 62nd Street
Over the last 6 weeks, I had the amazing opportunity to design and build my largest LEGO creation yet. When the National Building Museum announced they were expanding their exhibit on LEGO architecture and invited Robert A.M. Stern Architects to submit a model, I jumped at the chance. There were a lot of long hours and sleepless nights as a result, but I am very happy with the end result and am honored to have something that can be enjoyed by thousands rather than just anyone who happens to be in my living room. Here are some facts and statistics:
Project: 15 Central Park West
Architect: Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP
Location: New York, New York
Building Height: 548 ft (35 stories)
Scale of Model: 1” = 16’-0”
Height of Model: 36”
Number of Pieces Used: over 30,000
Time to Create: 200 hours (100 hours to design; 100 hours to build)
This model is now on display in the National Building Museum in Washington, DC as part of the expanded exhibit LEGO Architecture: Towering Ambition from now until September 3, 2012. It is in the company of 15 models by LEGO certified professional builder Adam Reed Tucker, so I did my best to create something deserving of sharing the floor with them.
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:
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)
-The most difficult Wasabi District project ever!
Check out @wooootles on Instagram to find some WIP/under construction pics!