My Lego room is much more spare bedroom these days, meaning I don't really have room to build new buildings at the moment. The solution to the space problem is in sight, but in the meantime, over the past couple of years to satisfy that need to build city stuff, I've been prolifically designing buildings in Bricklink Studio. I'm hoping they'll all get built for real sooner or later.
Quite often I have an idea, build the exciting bits and then get a bit bored, so these are in various states of completeness, from just facades to 95% complete.
First up, my most recent project, which I only started in the last fortnight, will probably be some sort of museum. I'm thinking maybe a museum of science and technology - it would be fun to build little models of engines, turbines and the sorts of fun kid-friendly experiment devices you see in science museums. So far I've only done the ground floor. The original inspiration for this was
D'Olier Chambers, but I ended up quite drastically changing the shape of the ground floor.
I haven't settled on a purpose for this building yet, and I also have slight doubts about ever building it because of its height - it might not really fit in with its surroundings in my city. It's inspired by the
Cork Business Association and it's probably the closest to being an actual replica of any actual building that I've ever designed.
This is an electrical shop - the initials NV are not the owner's name, they are of course Nine Volt! The lettering and the friezes were a lot of fun to design, and this is also one of a few examples of more complex roof shapes that I've been experimenting with. Inspired by
another building in Cork, though I much prefer my colour scheme.
A few years ago I bought the
Xtra Brick Stickers so I decided that I'd put them to good use with this small supermarket with a pizzeria upstairs. This is the most complete of all of these designs, as it has a full interior, I just haven't got around to finishing off the substructure of the roof. Not inspired by any building in particular, it just looks like the sort of building you'd find in towns all over Ireland.
This is a bank and it's a building that I have quite a firm plan for - it will sit on my quays between my hotel and pub/bookshop MOCs and create an angle for a gently curved street. It definitely needs a splash of colour somewhere, so that's something I'll have to revisit at some point. I like it white, so it'll need signage or flower boxes or something for colour. Driving through Kells a few months ago and seeing the
vomit-yellow bank there gave me some (regurgitated?) food for thought, but I don't think I can do it.
This shopping centre is probably the least likely to ever get built but you never know. Browsing Flickr one day I came across this
pub MOC by Jorge Barros and the style reminded me of
Stephen's Green Shopping Centre, so that became a loose inspiration for this building.
Besides the odd private residence here and there, and
McDonalds in Bray, Ireland is not known for its Tudor Revival architecture so while I would really like to build this one day, it might just be a standalone MOC that never gets a place in the city. The angles of the corner of the first floor and the bay windows were a lot of fun to build. Inspired by
this building in the beautiful city of Chester.
Last but very literally not least, a collection of six buildings which I hope to build just as facades at the back of my city on an incline. They're about as typical of Irish town buildings as you can get, and there are two more examples of experimenting with dormer roof shapes. Largely inspired by Midleton Main Street. From left to right, a dog groomer, pharmacy, florist, butcher, restaurant, and under renovation a former Hardw
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