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St. Basil's Cathedral from Balody: Two Lighting Plans
INTRODUCTION A Lego MOC designer/builder must be a little crazy to attempt the architectural complexities and artistic glories of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow: ten churches,…
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Building and Lighting a Smaller Big Ben
INTRODUCTION Lego’s own Creator model of Big Ben and the Westminster Palace facade is a gigantic wonder: 4163 bricks and 17 inches wide. The Elizabeth clock tower and clock assembly are beautiful.…
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Lighting the Farnsworth House REDUX
INTRODUCTION The Farnsworth House is a beautiful one-room weekend retreat built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between 1945 and 1951 southwest of Chicago.…
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Lighting the Villa Savoye
"The house will stand in the midst of the fields like an object, without disturbing anything around it." Le Corbusier INTRODUCTION This lovely building built by Le Corbusier in the 1920's and 1930's…
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Playing with Lighthouses
When Brickstuff introduced its new 2-Channel Micro-LEC, my mind naturally turned to lighthouses. I pondered what I could do—lighting-wise—with two Lego MOC lighthouses and one nanoblock lighthouse.…
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Lighting the Robie House
INTRODUCTION The beautiful Lego Architecture model of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House was released in 2011. Adam Reed Tucker designed this faithful reproduction of the iconic Chicago landmark.…
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My "First" Lego Car: A 1912 Ford Model T Torpedo
I've never been obsessed with cars. I've never built a Lego automobile. But, WW at Rebrickable.com designed a beautiful, lifelike MOC of a 1912 Ford Model T Torpedo in under 200 pieces.…
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Sungnyemun
There is this amazing-looking building in South Korea--the Sungnyemun. From Wikipedia: “Namdaemun (Hangul:남대문; Hanja:南大門, South Great Gate), officially known as the Sungnyemun (Hangul: 숭례문; Hanja:…
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Lighting the Imperial Hotel
INTRODUCTION This is not the lovely Lego Architecture model of the central lobby of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. It is the LOZ clone copy from China.…