He does it again!

I don't know if you've seen the earlier creations of Jared Chan but they are all beautiful! Recently he uploaded his latest shop. The detail is marvelous.

When all his creations are put together it's a shopping(and of course a lego) paradise! Well, the picture below speaks for itself.

Anglo-Saxon housing was the pits

...and yet my fellow TFOL Karrde makes it look quaint, clean and cute. His latest MOC is of an Anglo-Saxon pit house, half-submerged in the middle of a circle of green grass, with Anglo-Saxon people coming and going, to-ing and fro-ing, and generally doing Anglo-Saxon stuff all around it. A great 'bignette'!

Let's not forget the dark tan path, the SlyOwl-esque fences and the hair from the nurse in Collectible Minifigures Series 1.

"Anglo-Saxon Pit-House" by Karrde

~John

Bell Tower

If someone asked me to name the true undiscovered talent of our community, quy would pop up on the list quite near the top. He gets a fair amount of hits, but certainly not enough to justify his amazing building talent. Whilst his latest creation, the Bell Tower from the latest Pokémon games, is not his best work, I feel that I need to blog something of his and this is as good a chance as any.

Despite having a limited number of dark blue and red pieces, quy has created a bright, pop art-ish tower - and you don't need to be a Pokémon fan to appreciate it.

~John

G'day!

I absolutely love this modular apartment building from dita_svelte. It's based off a building in Sydeny's King's Cross and Pott's Point suburbs. It's meant to be in an Art Deco and Spanish Colonial Revival style, like many of the buildings seen in those suburbs. It's even got some great minifigs to match. There are some amazing piece uses here: notice the green Toy Story soldier bases on the trees, and the roof made of jumpers is a neat touch too.

~John

Ich bin ein Berliner

Time to break my long silence and return to golf. To all those who I have disappointed, I am so sorry. I am returning at the Berlin PGA tournament - where I saw the famous landmarks: the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag and the Siegessaeule (Victory Column, where President Obama spoke). In LEGO form! Utterly brilliant.

House Cubed.

There's not really much I can say about this Cubic House creation by evildead1980 except to say that it's one of the most interesting creations I've ever seen. I love how the three sections of the house just casually sit there at an angle, as if it's the most natural thing in the world.

Dr. S.

Reach for the sky...

I am currently working on building a Victorian house, and so it was great to see lgorlando's latest creation ('Sky Victorian Modular Building') to get some ideas. Though I'm not a big fan of its blue usage, I love the techniques used around the door and windows. Don't forget the flower beds and the ornate lamppost, both of which show off some great techniques and produce a very elaborate outcome. There's even a balcony to look out from.

~John

You'll marvel at this repair shop...

Well, that 'witty' title is courtesy of the fact that I have finally worked out Mdrn-Mrvl's name to be 'Modern Marvels'. Actually, I found out ages ago, but we haven't blogged his stuff in a while so I never had a chance.

In continuation with his 1920s-gangster style (M-M being one of many builders inspired by the film Public Enemies), Mr. Marvels has built a great repair shop . Though it may look simple from the outside, it's packed with clever features as well as a selection of his 1920s cars. I really like the use of old white bricks (which sadly make up most of my white brick collection) on the building; it adds a wonderful aged effect.

~John

Halifax Townhouse

Powerpig admits that this is a 'change of pace' for him, but I love it.. This is his latest creation - a Halifax Townhouse , complete with interior and my all-time favourite minifig torso (kinda). Everyone's been saying the insides are very IKEA-ry, and it's certainly true. Sometimes we have to throw away our Danish obsession and open our minds to popular Swedish products instead. Sleek lines can be found in and outside the tall, refined-bley house with wonderful fiddly architecture at the top of the right tower.

~John

BIG

I just wanted to take a smidgen of your time to talk about BIG (or the Bjarke Ingels Group), a Copenhagen-based architectural agency. They specialise in urbanism, research and development of architectural ideas.

"Wot?" you think.

Well, basically, they're a Danish company that builds some of their ideas with Lego. And they do it brilliantly. Nathan Sawaya, step away: make room for BIG. Their builds are ambitious and fantastic, and they don't stop there. BIG are responsible for some of the greatest architecture in Denmark today, but the one I love the best is (obviously) their Lego project: a gigantic apartment block of the future. Built over numerous days and obviously with many weeks of designing beforehand, BIG's Lego design is an undulating landscape of blocky towers, creating a unique formation of living spaces. See more on BOX's website here (click 'Enter' and try to find the 'LEGO' box).

~John

Joris Blok's Amsterdam

Many of you may know Joris Blok from his creations on Flickr and MOCpages, and he used to make really good stuff. As of late, however, he has been distracted into making Lego versions of Gameboys and Video Cameras, and (God help us) Pokémon. OK, sure, I shouldn't be so mean about it, but it's plunged a good builder into building mainly rubbish. Anywho, he's back to his old builds with this excellent diorama of an Amsterdam street . He says it's only a 'preview', but I'm definitely happy with it so far.

Decontamination Centre

I'm back! Well, you probably thought I was never gone, but I was. But I'm back now, and I thought I'd make up for my gone-ness with a creation I found on Sunday which I thought was amazing.

This is a post-apoc decontamination site from the Legohaulic which immediately caught my eye with some excellent building techniques (note the plates of glass on the walls of the greenhouse, the people's large helmets made of visors from old Technic people and the staggered base). So enjoy!

~John

Peaceful Lego

 

Last week, by friend Brent (Thwaak) and I started a new group on Flickr.

We are both old enough to remember a time when LEGO was a violence-free toy. Before Star Wars, Cowboys and Pirates, before even the Yellow Castle.  

It was a time when LEGO made fire engines, passenger planes and little gas stations. When the first minifigs appeared, they were firemen, bus drivers, doctors and astronauts, peacefully exploring space (or just the moon, Classic Space looked as if it was all on the moon).

When I think about it now, my friends and I could play for weeks with LEGO and never feel the need to stage a battle between our minifigs.

Today, however, it's different. Knights need the trolls and the undead, the astronauts are plundering Mars and waging a war on the indigenous population, the good Exo-force boys fight the bad robots, the Agents are trying to stop the evil plans of their own stereotypical nemesis... And there are the Clone wars, of course.

When I look at my own Flickr protostream, I see quite a few of the gray metal MOCs and armed minifigs. On the other hand the forums are full of beautiful creations, where no-one is pointing anything at anyone. Hence the Peaceful Lego.

Feel free to add your peaceful creations. Adrian Florea just added this adorable cadet Stimpy.

Nadroj goes deep south

Sir Nadroj of Flickr brings us a delightful insight into the deep south of America with this excellent vignette. I'm just glad it isn't another awful demented Scala figure.

Jordan invites us to get stuffed.

This gruesome but very atmospheric little scene by Jordan Schwartz (aka SirNadroj) almost looks like it's part of a competition to include every type of LEGO animal ever made. I particularly like the fireplace and the antlers of the deer on the chimney breast.

Corfe Castle Station WIP.

This beautiful railway station by Carl Greatrix is still a WIP (Work In Progress) but it's still way better than anything I could hope to achieve and I couldn't help but blog it here. Check out the lovely arch above the window, the green drainpipes, it all adds up to a MOC which is simply gorgeous and I can't wait to see it finished.

Scotland

Wow... I'm actually posting! Since those leprechauns were giving me a bit of a hard time I decided I'd take my revenge. So I searched for 'Scotland', expecting some flag or something. But what did I find? Oh, nothing. But I still got this random red house, which is apparently in Scotland.

Gigantic Train Station

Wow! Check out this amazing Train Station, exhibited at a Convention in Berlin! Made by Rainer Brendler , this creation is really immense! 8 metres tall, 5 metres long and made with 1,400,000 Lego bricks, I think this has to be the largest creation we've ever had here on Brickspace. I'd love to blab on about the architecture and the clever use of minifigs in the building, and creating curved surfaces, but this is based on an actual train station - Frankfurt train station - so I'll leave the marveling at the architecture to non-Lego-architecture fans. Ah, well.

For more pictures, either check out the Brickshelf gallery here, or Rainer's gallery here . Before I go, here's a behind the scenes pic. Just the light glittering off all those shiny new beige Lego bricks makes me want to faint.

Many thanks to Every Boddy for suggesting this to me, and providing the stats and links.

Wayne Manor/Batcave

This massive lego version of Wayne Manor and the Batcave was created by Dave Kaleta and you can view more pictures of it by clicking here. I especially like the intricate staircase at the front, and the amazing detail in the batcave. It is quite hard to see everything in the picture, so follow the link to find a bigger version.

-Luke, editor

ancient stuff

Ok, well here's a Roman Colosseum from Brickshelf. Happy now? No? I didn't think so, so you also get some random guy getting attacked in front of a big thing with pillars as well.