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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.
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.
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 .
In the end, the design time for the base ended up eclipsing that of the tower. That is not to say it was any less enjoyable ...
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.
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.
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.
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
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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
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
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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
️ 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
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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
My rendition of the Penobscot Annex in LEGO. The prototype, designed by Donaldson and Meier, was completed in 1913. It was the second tallest building in Detroit after the Dime Building until the mid 1920s. The LEGO model is 5.4 feet (1.66 meters) high and weighs about 90 pounds. The Penobscot Annex is my fourth tallest LEGO building (Fisher, David Stott, and Penobscot Building [1928] are taller).
The smaller structure to the left is the Savoyard Center (formerly the People's State Bank). I will display the entire Penobscot Block at the Midland Center for the Arts during their "Art of the Brick" exhibit this summer.
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.
️ 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
Here we are! Maybe this is my most difficult MOC I ever did! Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow!
I'm honest, I had two different inspirations: one was a model found on Bricklink, designed by Jacob Harper, but the most important one was Markus Rollbühler's MOC, which has always fascinated me for its amazing techniques!
The latter, moreover, was so kind to reveal me some secret techniques used in his MOC for the domes! Thank you Markus! :)
However, as you can see, my MOC is also different from the former MOCs: it maintains the dimensions typical of Architecture series, but the most difficult part was to find the correct pieces in the correct available colors...
And talking about my techniques: I'm not so crazy and skilled like Markus! :P
Exterior.
Whitebrick Sand House is characterized by straight lines, glass and sandy colours. Placed in desertlike environment, yet close to civilization. Somewhere to relax.
I have built 1/3 of the way up to the top of my roughly 1/50 scale LEGO model of Detroit's 40 story Guardian Building.
This building is based loosely on one of the buildings depicted in the Brickbuilderspro commercial aftermarket instructions -
"Town Street," (www.brickbuilderspro.com/shop-instructions/?sort=featured...).
I tried to keep most of the styling elements, but expand the building to actually accommodate the idea that a minifig(s) could actually live in the structure, rather than just a box that was more facade than structure.
This is an Ancient Temple from India. This is the Nagara style of Architecture which was fully developed in the 10th century. Such Temples exist till date and are very much in use as a place of worship and pilgrimage. In Hinduism the devotee offers flowers and fruit to the 'deity' as a form of worship. Therefore we always see stalls selling garlands, flowers and fruit outside a temple. A visit to the Temple is not a sombre event, and could be and evening outing for the family or a 'picnic' Therefore one finds a 'fair' like atmosphere around the entrance.
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...
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!
I have resumed construction of a minifig scale model of the old Wayne County Building in Detroit.
Now that I know the wall sections fit together, I am building the base which elevates the building a few bricks higher than the sidewalk. The green areas will eventually be landscaped with trees, bushes, etc.
At this point I am not sure how much of an interior I will make (if any) but I do plan on including the two light courts near the center of the building on either side of the tower.
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.
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.
Each of the sixteen parterres of the Charbagh at Taj Mahal are lined with a varyingly dense abundance of native flora. In the vernacular of Persian and later Mughal gardens, the Charbagh was once far more densely forested, offering visitors a lush and vibrant experience with plenty of natural shade. Sadly, this veritable vision of Paradise was not to last. During the early days of the British Raj in the 19th century, nearly all the trees close to the central axis were uprooted in order to provide clearer views of the iconic mausoleum over a pristine lawn. While many replacement trees have since taken root, the largely unobstructed view of Mumtaz Mahal’s tomb afforded to visitors is certainly counter to the original intent and design.
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!
️ 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