[MOC Architecture] German Federal Chancellery

[Bayou]

Hi all,

Few months ago, I realised this MOC for the TechLUG forum. I enjoyed very much to reproduced this building, so I decided to promote it and create it in lego IDEAS website (https://ideas.lego.com/projects/115929).

I Hope you like it as much as I liked create it.

The German Federal Chancellery is a recent building with many interesting details.

You can find much details on the history of the building on the wikipedia page here : https://fr.wikipedia...dérale_(Berlin)

unfortunately it seems to be unavailable in english...

It as in the same line that the Paul Loebe Haus, the Federal Parliament which I made previously (http://www.techlug.f...it=chancellerie), but it is another story...

I tried to enumerate all the particularity of the building and reproduce with accuracy on my model, I will show you them in the end of the topics...

My model, main entrance :

River side :

Birds eye view :

Archs :

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Size, scale from birds eye view :

Each side building is made with "glass cubes" : 3 cubes placed side by side / 1 empty space / 1 cube / 1 empty space / 3 new cubes

It is the left side construction. The right aisle is cut by the Spree river.

The left side is finished by a thin piece of concrete with a hole on the side. I tried to reproduce that. It is not as round as expected. The main problem is in the fact that I made a ground with 2 plates height max to respect the architecture standards.

Each side aisle has on its face a groove in the concrete. I made them with the brick 2x1 with groove http://cache.lego.co...5/2/4264360.jpg

Each side aisle start with a gable end

In the interior side of the aisle, there are large windows

In the middle of the main entrance, there are 3 flags. I used the same trick that in the 21018 UN HQ set.

The main entrance has many artistic concrete parts. I tried to be accurate, but it is not easy because of the dimensions.

Behind these parts, the entrance with round concrete on the first floor

The main building is higher than the side aisles and has two big windows archs

These archs are just under the roof. the roof is round with 2 triangles of thin concrete

On the rear of the building, a nice garden with trees on the sides

Here is details of some constructs ideas :

the first floor :

The rear aisle windows :

trees :

I hope you liked it, I read all until here !

Your C&C are most welcome... and maybe your support on Lego ideas website https://ideas.lego.com/projects/115929 ;)

[Covenant84]

Wow - that's a challenging building to try to build - you've done great job of capturing it! Will head over and give my support.

[Askan]

Wow - that's a challenging building to try to build - you've done great job of capturing it! Will head over and give my support.

Exactly what I was thinking. You did not pick an easy builiding :) Very well done!

[BricksMcgee]

Incredible. You've managed a great deal of detail at that scale!

[Wardancer]

Ha! I was just inside this thing yesterday! A very good model!

[Bayou]

thanks ! It was sometimes hard to find a solution in brick for this beauty !

Ha! I was just inside this thing yesterday! A very good model!

Maybe next time you will find it in the souvenir shop !

[Wout]

Amazing, you even made the river.

Well done!

[Chorduroy]

Very cool!

[skcheung]

Great work. I like the trees in particular.