LEGO buildings

Bunden og Kanden

Bunden og Kanden is a small shop in the basement of a town house. The building is inspired by a toy shop in Gentofte.

Rednu Nwod

A small cellar café and bar run by an Australian named Mike 'Dille. One of the walls (look for the black and white stones) is actually from the old city walls.

Litir

An experiment by one of the leading architects in Bregnerod. The idea is to build a house with a more varied use of materials than what is typically the case for a house in Bregnerod or its neighbouring areas.

Three street corners

Three solutions to the task of constructing a building at an intersection of two streets in a town. Local zoning regulations require shops, cafés or similar activity on the street level, apartments on the upper flors and a maximum building height of three floors. The page includes details of the design and construction of Square Ghost Cafe.

Skyscraper under construction

My LEGO people are working on a skyscraper. The director of City X'ers appreciates the intensive use of trucks from City X'ers at the construction site.

Bike shop

A motorcycle shop selling three wheeled bikes.

Burning house

A small house has caught fire.

Boat house

A traditional Faroese boat house.

Parisian store front

This model was inspired by a store front near Center Pompidou in Paris (but I am pretty sure that I have made sufficient modifications to make it hard to see the resemblence).

I have made building instructions available as HTML with images (61 kb) and as a MPD file (4 kb).

Restaurant

Design: Katrine Sparre Andersen.
Photo: Jacob Sparre Andersen (e-mail, WWW).

Katrine built a restaurant, so she could profit from all the bridge building. The servings (bottom left and clockwise) are:

1. Haddoc(sp?) and spinach.
2. Beef
3. Salad
4. Beef

House

Design: Katrine Sparre Andersen.
Photo: Jacob Sparre Andersen (e-mail, WWW).

This is one of Katrines houses.

• Overview - inside
• Bathroom and kitchen - ground level
• Overview - outside
• Kitchen and office - looking down
• Kitchen - sink, stove, grill, phone, fruit bowl, art on the walls, ...
• Living room and office - from above - phones, vacuum cleaner, TV (B&O), more art
• Bath room - sinks, taps

Hotel

Design: Caroline and Katrine Sparre Andersen.
Photo: Jacob Sparre Andersen (e-mail, WWW).

Caroline and Katrine built this little hotel.

• Front
• Rear
• The suite - from above
• Two rooms + bathroom - from above
• Reception - ground level
• Ground level room with bathroom - from above
• The hotel next to an extended version of the Italian restaurant from the early 90's.

House

Design: Katrine Sparre Andersen.
Photo: Jacob Sparre Andersen (e-mail, WWW).

This is another of the houses Katrine built in the summer of 1995.

• From outside.
• The living room.
• Kitchen and dining space.

Katrine's

Design: Katrine Sparre Andersen.
Photo: Jacob Sparre Andersen (e-mail, WWW).

A dance restaurant Katrine built this summer (1995). It's the photographers fault that the pictures aren't all that clear.

• From above. Including parking lot and sculptures.
• Dancing inside. Not that sharp.
• Sculptures. Dark and blurred.
• Crowd control. The hostess was rather shaken when she arrived early in the morning. I was asked to empty the restaurant.
• More crowd control. The chief designer from City X'ers is fleeing through a window (with girl and champagne).
• Some people sleeping, some people kissing and some people running.

Something happened to my photo of the mayor kissing a police man before her husband arrived. :-(

The new Katrine's

Design: Katrine Sparre Andersen.
Photo: Jacob Sparre Andersen (e-mail, WWW).

• The restaurant seen from outside.
• Katrine's private suite seen from outside.
• The rotating door.
• The private suite seen from above.
• The private suite inside.
• Staircase down from the suite. - From the side.
• Staircase down from the suite. - From above.
• Some of the musicians - seen through an open window.
• The dance floor.
• The restaurant seen from inside.
• Guinnes on tap - and a parrot on the phone.
• The kitchen.
• The huge dish washer.

Kiosk

Design and photo: Jacob Sparre Andersen (e-mail, WWW).

This kiosk design was made for the town Bregnerod.

• The kiosk in its "natural" environment (37 kb JPEG)
• Open (29 kb JPEG)
• Closed (31 kb JPEG)

Art gallery

Design: Katrine Sparre Andersen.
Photo: Jacob Sparre Andersen (e-mail, WWW).

This art gallery was made for the town Bregnerod.

• The art gallery in its "natural" environment (37 kb JPEG)
• The only way into the gallery is through the elevator (37 kb JPEG)
• People drink quite a lot at receptions (32 kb JPEG)
• In the center the bosses from the two competing construction companies are discussing someting. The guy with a grey Stetson is the owner of one of the two big oil companies in town (36 kb JPEG)
• An angry young man is telling the owner of the competing oil company that there are certain things a company can not get away with (31 kb JPEG) - Notice the construction of the rail on the platform and the stairs.
• Some people know how to fly - even on carpets (42 kb JPEG) - Notice the "hole" in the floor. It is a window made with PVC film.

The gallery looks forward to present this exhibition of rare head dresses.

Converted warehouse

Original building: Jacob Sparre Andersen (e-mail, WWW).
Conversion: Katrine Sparre Andersen.
Photo: Jacob Sparre Andersen (e-mail, WWW).

This is a warehouse Katrine converted to an apartment. You can see the original building on the under construction page (currently only on the Danish version of the page).

• The building in its "natural" environment (50 kb JPEG)
• Open gates (41 kb JPEG) - You can see through the dining room and into the office in the other end of the building.
• Left: office. Right: sitting room. Rear right: Kitchen (44 kb JPEG)
• Upper floor (37 kb JPEG) - The upper floor (added in the rebuilding) consists of a bedroom and a bathroom.

Post office

Design: Katrine Sparre Andersen.
Photo: Jacob Sparre Andersen (e-mail, WWW).

This post office was made for the town Bregnerod.

• The post office in its "natural" environment (46 kb JPEG)

Small police station

Design and photo: Jacob Sparre Andersen (e-mail, WWW).

The construction of this police station was restricted both by the very small number of grey bricks in my collection and by the small space available for the building. In spite of this I managed to include both a counter an space for a work desk.

This building was made for the town Bregnerod.

• The police station in its "natural" environment (46 kb JPEG)

House

This is one of Carolines houses. (The picture is very blurred.)

• From the rear. With the middle floor out.

Red no. 3

Design: Katrine Sparre Andersen.
Photo: Jacob Sparre Andersen (e-mail, WWW).

This house was made for the town Bregnerod.

Outside (33 kb JPEG)

The chimney with the antennae and the "3" sign has hole all the way down. It looks like somebody is in the middle of changing a tire on the black bike. Just to the left of the flagpole there is a multi-coloured garden chair.

Bed room (25 kb JPEG)

The bed room is kept in red and green. The strange, allmost organic construction in the left corner of the room is a bookshelf.

Bath room (24 kb JPEG)

The bath room is, just as the bed room, kept in red and green. There is actually a drain in the shower (Katrine was tired of having water everywhere, when her minifigs used the shower).

Living/dining room (24 kb JPEG)

The living room is kept in red and yellow, and besides that it is pretty ordinary. The dining table continues the stove, so it is not far you have to move the food when dinner is ready.

Dining room/kitchen (26 kb JPEG)

Here you get a slightly different look at the dining table. The two doors on the wall to the right leads to the bath room (the near side of the book shelf) and to the bed room (the far side of the book shelf). The entrance is hidden behind the chimney.

Blue no. 4

Design: Katrine Sparre Andersen.
Photo: Jacob Sparre Andersen (e-mail, WWW).

This house was made for the town Bregnerod.

Outside (21 kb JPEG)

On the far side of the house where a path leads back to the garden and the entrance the number is placed.

Inside (33 kb JPEG)

When you look inside the house, you see how Katrine has managed to fit all within 394 square feet. In the far end of the house there is a bath room. In the lower right corner you can just see one of the benches next to the dining table. The kitchen is in the middle of the house with a chain of lamps in the ceiling near the wall. There is a bed at the left wall.

Inside (39 kb JPEG)

On this picture you get a better view at the bath room (and at the beef on the stove.

From the road (36 kb JPEG)

This picture shows the house from the road side. The blue grilles on the ground next to the house are bike stands.

White no. 1

Original building: Katrine Sparre Andersen.
Conversion and photo: Jacob Sparre Andersen (e-mail, WWW).

This is an old farm building Katrine asked me to converted to a usable modern house. You can see how the building looked early during the rebuilding on the under construction page.

Entrance (21 kb JPEG)

The master of the house asks us inside. The number is recessed in the wall. The lamp is made from a transparent yellow round 1*1 plate, a 2*2 parabola, and one of the new 1*1 plates with a vertical grip.

One of the children's room (23 kb JPEG)

What do children do? They play with their LEGO! Have a close look at the impressive red space ship in the boy's lap (it is a feather from a knight's helmet :-).

Bed room + a corner of the office (26 kb JPEG)

The big bed in the bed room is of a rather special design (too silly?). The doors open out to a balcony above the living room. The master of the house works as an architect (she was in charge of the conversion of my warehouse) so the main feature of her office is the large blue tilted drawing table.

Relaxing (25 kb JPEG)

Depending on your mood, you can relax with a game of table tennis or a nap on the sofa.

Kitchen (19 kb JPEG)

There is a dining table at the far end of the kitchen. You can look in to the living room when you are standing at the stove, and out on the street, when you are washing up after dinner. The oven is in the high cupboard in the nearest corner of the kitchen, so there is space for boxes with beer below the stove.

Towns

• The town where City X'ers design office and exhibitions were located.
• Bregnerod

More buildings

Medieval church (other site)

Eric Kingsley has built this nice little village church. It isn't quite as large as Ed Boxer's Crown Cathedral, but it contains everything necessary for a church that doesn't get visited by the pope now and then.

Silas has built a nice house with pool and a large garden for some of his minifigs.

Ed Boxer's Crown Cathedral (other site)

Old house (other site)

Eric Kingsley is building lots of houses for his middle age town, but I think they basically can be used in present time towns too.

The Duke of Hastings (other site)

The Duke of Hastings, also known as The Honeymoon Hotel is a small hotel in Allanton.

It looks like the remains of the gate tower from an old castle has been used as the basis for this somewhat newer building.

Allanton Aquarium (other site)

Visitors to Allanton should definitely take time to visit their aquarium.