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I like this build, and I do not mind at all that it is not very high or doesn't have many architectural details. It is supposed to be a simple concrete building, making it too beautiful would make it very unrealistic.

Legere doesn't mean to speak in Latin but to gather, to choose or to read. It's a common mistake that my students (who take both Latin and Greek) often make. But you're right that it is from the same root as the Greek word.

Well, after the responses of the designer I think he's sincere. And who am I to judge him? After all, this is something you can't defend yourself against. However, I still find that the similarities are large enough to have a discussion about it. And shouldn't the legal people at Lego have foreseen this?

I really like this set. But it is really the same house as the NILTC house from 2006. It is not just inspired by the same house, the way the bricks are stacked is completely the same in too many places to be a coincidence. Lego has so many elements and there are billions of ways to combine them, and Lego comes up with exactly the same details as this moc... This is plagiarism, legally perhaps but certainly morally. Unless they have struck a deal with the original creator (or unless both creators are the same person of course).

I started building with Lego at age three, I think, in 1977. The last set I got before my dark ages was set 5510 which was released in 1986, so my dark ages must have set in somewhere around 1988. I never took any interest in Lego in the 90's and 00's, and came back to Lego in 2010 after looking for some Duplo for my daughter on the internet. I had a dark age then of about 22 years. I know therefore much about the 1978-1987 period, but almost nothing about the sets that appeared in my dark ages, leaving a strange gap in my Lego knowledge (and many 90's sets that are considered classic have no sentimental value for me at all). Nowadays I have the money and the space to buy some Lego now and then, and my modular houses layout is growing.

I wanted to build a very iconic building for the Architecture context. And although it doesn't exist anymore it was the landmark of the skyline of New York for the last part of the 20th century. 480 white grille plates were used.

I like it, but I have one suggestion: wouldn't it be better to use the new jumper plates with groove? You wouldn't see so much difference between the tiles and the jumper plates you used.

When I saw the photographs of your MOC, I immediately thought that it was made by a Dutchman. A very recogniseable style, and a very nice house!

Great building! I like the overall height, suitable for a corner building, and I also like the colour scheme with the touches of dark orange everywhere. It works remarkably well.

What I like about this building is the way the corner goes beyond the blockiness and squareness of most Lego buildings, being round/octogonal instead. Well done.

Excellent houses, immediately recogniseable as Amsterdam houses. The difference in width also makes it more realistic. And a nice interior too.

Maybe that's why they put an age of 14 on it instead of 16.

I've mixed feelings about these houses. On one side, I really like all your buildings, the way they look apart, and I can even see the way the blue colour binds them all together. On the other side, the pictures of all the buildings together to me look too much of an picture someone's done too much photoshopping to.

Seeing the all together makes the Town Hall look rather plain, in my opinion. The facade of the Green Grocer, for instance, is much more sculpted, and more beautiful therefore.

I cannot not compare it to the new town hall set, and this building wins in almost every aspect, but mostly in the overall architecture. You managed to capture the essence of a neo-classical building nearly perfectly. The only problem with releasing this as a set (or putting it on Cuusoo) would be the large quantity of bricks needed...

The logo now says Mercedes instead of VW I like the tilted windows on the side very much, even the large version didn't manage to reproduce that.

I like this school very much. The facade is nicely balanced: not too much detail, but not too plain. The interior is charming. It must be a little rural school, with only one classroom. And how I would love to have only six students per class! (I am a teacher) I still use a blackboard for teaching every day, and yes, that's in the Netherlands.

A simple, but effective idea! And very nicely executed. By the way, I'm glad we don't have these in the neighbourhood where I live, I'd have to walk a lot more.

Great building! I like the colours and all the different ways you've sculpted the facade. The turret is also nice, although I would have chosen a leaner spire, conform the original. The interior is also great. A worthy companion to the modular sets. By the way, al little bit of nitpicking: this style isn't neo-classical but neo-Dutch-renaissance.

It's also the Model Team forum, I think that is what made the moderators move it here.

When I was a child, I had set 615. But this set perhaps has a little bit too much charm.

What a creepy combination of businesses. But I like the variation on the Green Grocer you made.

If I may quote myself (way back in this same thread):

I see many differences in height.

And the Green Grocer has a barbecue. In the 1930's, there wasn't much barbecuing outside the southern USA, and certainly not on the balcony of a European town house.