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I am from Barcelona, so when last week's attack happenned, this image of thousands of candles lit up struck me, and I suddenly knew I had to create exactly that in Lego. For my very first Blender render, I tried this night scene. Hope you like this rather simple model from me. Btw, all the tiling and back buildings are also originals, not anything taken from my previous modulars Hope you like this!

Good question! Hmmm... It's a bit lazy to say, but every building begins differently. I always design on LDD though, I'm poor to make actually anything... For instace, my first, Magic Shop was inspired by a trip to Germany that I went to. I saw something great and I knew I had to give it my twist without a doubt. For my second, I based it off an H0 model that I had at home of an Italian Villa, and only changed the roof of it Magic Shop & Italian Villa! For my third modular, I based it off a building in a nearby theme park called PortAventura, it was a restaurant in the Western area... So I guess you could say it has a Mississippi look to it. Inspiration can come from anywhere, that's my point. And add unexpected, weird details throughout, I love that too. The Iron Horse, that spire is amazing, btw My fourth is called Old Ben's Gallery, it's based on two houses in Barcelona (Casa Amatller and Casa Batlló), but I think it didn't turn out well. Some people say they love it, others say they hate it... Old Ben's Gallery. Bizarre but cool! For my fifth building, I wanted something absolutely crazy. No boundaries, zero limits. I pitched this idea of a corner building with a huuuuge 45-degree side. Originally I were to put Venice's Palazzo Ducale on the right building, but after much rebuilding (I think I did about four versions of the building, I settled on the last). Again, don't fear changing! Sweets & Co. has a Willy Wonka theming to it. The whole building looks like a birthday cake. Some people up there have commented about not mixing too many colours together. It's nonsense honsetly. Don't place pink and dark blue together, but with a bit of white or grey in between you shoul totally be fine For my sixth building, I wanted to make the Palazzo Ducale that I couldn't fit in the last one. Furthermore, I went on a trip to Venice a week after starting on LDD, meaning all the deatails are as authentic as I could make them! Authenticity is key. This next one is a double modular featuring the world-famous buildings of Piazza San Marco And finally my sixth building... I've never shown this and I've only done one rendering and it's not even well edited... but... here it goes. Casa Vicens is a recreation of one of the least known buildings by Gaudí. I wanted to enchance the bizarre beauty of this peculiar building. I think I succeeded! Keys: 1. Make it something you relate to - VERY IMPORTANT!! 2. Think a bit about the structure, but don't worry too much about it (make it proportional and all) 3. Go bananas with the colours - who is going to look at a grey building when it can be red! 4. Go absolutely crazy with the details. Look I even placed on Casa Vicens painter palettes as fences! 5. Push boundaries: make something nobody has seen before. Have I copied any building? They are trully unique! 6. And MOST IMPORTANT: Have fun with it! PD: I have an addiction to crazy buildings, I know, but my severe is my addiction to insane rooftop detailing. I can't stop it, it's my favourite part to design...! Hope it helps!

I've been dying for a gray pidgeon mould with light gray, sand blue and purply accents. So that's my bet! Oh, and still hoping for a rat in Sand Blue. Ratatouille, anyone?

Totally right! In fact the minifigs have 1x2 Wonka bar tiles on their hands! I adore Sweets & Co.

I've, for some time, been making modular buildings. But I feel they haven't ever been posted as a whole, so I thought, why not do it. I'll try to give to background information and all. This might be updated if I create more! Hope you enjoy! My Flickr, just in case!!: https://www.flickr.com/photos/138575523@N07/ 1. Magic Shop Magic Shop was my very first trial at a modular building, believe it or not. If you take a closer look, the first floor could be the base for any other building above, that's because I had no idea what to build on top of that first floor. About a month later, (while in Ikea for some reason) I remembered a trip to the Black Forest, Germany and all its houses, and that's the result. This Magic Shop is absolutely perfect and that's what I love about it. In my first attempt, I nailed shape, proportions and colour. And that triangular roof is incredibly iconic. Such a wonderful modular! Eurobricks Topic: Building Period: Nov 2015 - Jan 2016 Pieces: 2598 on a 32x32 baseplate 2. Italian Villa Oh, god this one's exciting! The Italian Villa (or better said: The Tuscan Villa - that doesn't sound as catchy, does it?) is an ode to the highly underused Flame Yellow colour. The design for this beast mostly comes from a scale model of a Vineyard Villa I own - shape and colourwise, but the detailing and the whole rooftop is absolutely original and wonderful. As a fact, I had this design stopped for some weeks as I didn't know how to make the windows on the middle floor right. While visiting a univeristy campus, I found the solution! This has to be one of my two favourite modular buildings of mine, as a funny note, on a Chinese Lego enthusiasts fan page they marked it as Spanish Villa. As I am techinically from Spain I found this rather funny. And Unikitty's tail in white at the roof! Eurobricks Topic: Building Period: Jan 2016 - Feb 2016 Pieces: 2148 on a 32x32 baseplate 3. The Iron Horse My dear Iron Horse... I totally adore this modular. After two highly-successful modulars, this had to at least match the others' quality. Not only I think I managed it, but I also created (again) a very unique modular. By the time I designed this thing, I had all the tools and techniques mastered (no weird bricks showing and all) and I could make this trully the result of my imagination. Although its name and basic structure comes from a restaurant in PortAventura theme park, I translated it to Lego and made the façade even more striking than it was in real life. I also took Brick Bank's colour scheme and exploited it at the max. Not many people know this, at the porch's roofline there are rollerskates used in sand green. A detail I've kept for myself for a long time. Eurobricks Topic: Building Period: Mar 2016 - May 2016 Pieces: 1886 on a 32x32 baseplate 4. Old Ben's Gallery Old Ben's Gallery, the Lego version of Barcelona's Casa Amatller and Casa Batlló is my most bizarre approach to a modular. I tried to make the best of Pet Shop's concept, and this was the result. Although a great looking modular without a doubt, it still is my least favourite of them all, there's so much competition though! This was my first trial at making custom printed pieces for completing totally the façade. This was also my first attempt at making smaller windows with porticos, if you look closer at my previous modulars, they all have insanely huge windows. It's good for a change! Eurobricks Topic: Building Period: Aug 2016 - Nov 2016 Pieces: 3148 on two 16x16 baseplates 5. Sweets & Co. Oh my!! This absolutely beautiful 45-degree corner modular is the favourite of mine. So many nice shapes, nice colours, nice piece usages. You can tell I adore this thing, don't you? The idea of a 45-degree building came from seeing the corner buildings in Barcelona, where two houses share the corner. The one on the left is inspired by Casa Batlló's patio (see that gradient going up in Aqua against Royal Blue background, so cool right!?) The building on the right went under four rebuilds. Initially is was supposed to be Venice's Palazzo Ducale. When I noticed it didn't fit, I built a white thingy which looked terrible. Next some sort of castle-like thingy, also terrible (thanks brother for pointing out is was terrible!). And finally I created this pattern, so good! Btw, yes, on the pattern the darker blue is the sorta discontinued Dark Turquoise <-Outdated!, why not!? On this modular, I snuck some nice part usages, for instance, Indy's whip as dragon tail on the right door's wrought iron fence. Also the dragon head is a discontinued piece from 2003 which only found its way in some Orient Expedition and Knights' Knigdom II sets! Btw, that fence is in copper, also a discontinued colour. I also got to experiment a lot with rooflines on this bad boy. The one on the right is directly inspired by Venice's Palazzo Ducale, a reference to what the building was supposed to be! I would love to build this thing one day, but you know it's hardly impossible with all the discontinued colours and non-exisiting parts in certain colours. Eurobricks Topic: Building Period: Jan 2017 - Mar 2017 Pieces: 2994 on a 32x32 baseplate 6. Piazza San Marco Once I finished Sweets & Co., I went on a trip to Italy and one of the stops was Venice. The fact that I couldn't turn the Palazzo Ducale into a modular was still rattling my mind, so I set to build the most faithful recreation of the Campanile and the Palazzo in the modular form. Said and done. This is a huge over-the-top crazy piece of architecture. In fact the tower of the Campanile is 76'8 cm or 30' 2" tall! About the same as the Disney Castle for comparision. Although not my favourite modular it definetely is one of the dearest to my heart. All the details throughout the porch (something I'd wanted to revisit since I finished The Iron Horse, but with arches) are absolutely wonderful, in fact each capital is different from the other. As a reference to the original Italian Villa, the section inside the porch is Cool Yellow. Although hard to see in this picture, the whole façade is covered in a printed pattern (best seen in the section in-between the tower and the palace). Btw, two Sand Green gold ingots are there representing marble, so cool! The rooftop details are incredibly fun to build, surprisingly, and these were the best to build! Eurobricks Topic: Building Period: Apr 2017 - May 2017 Pieces: 3700 on a 16x32 and a 32x32 baseplate (same as Assembly Square) 7. A Summer in Tuscany Summer holidays are long, the desire to build a model are high. But what? Something daring, interesting, but with a warm feel to it (the heat was striking hard then!). Heck, I like italian architecture (easy to say... erm... out of eight models, three are entirely dedicated to the country ). So off I went trying to build something in the lines of Assembly Square (that year's modular), but closer to my heart, and let's be honest, less of a mix-match. The model came together pretty quickly, but then DISASTER! While rendering, my computer stopped, and dumb me had not made a copy of the file! Summer was long gone then, but the high spirit made me plough on to finally have it all wrapped up by Februrary of 2018. Having to do the modular all over again obviously means I had extra time to snuck details even the most eagle-observers fans won't find. Has any of you seen a little statuette representing one of those little virigins on the streets? I bet not! (Checks if it's actually there in any of the pictures). Yes. Eurobricks Topic: Building Period: Aug 2017 - Feb 2018 Pieces: 4434 on a 16x32 and a 32x32 baseplate (same as Assembly Square) 8. Klee Corner Klee Corner! Pop! A collage of hundreds of different buildings glued together by the man behind the keys (yup, me). If The Iron Horse was a result of my imagination over two years ago, this is me jumbling up together Berlin, Hundertwasser, Bilbao, Gaudí and the postmodern architects with him and U2. Can you turn music into architecture? Ermmm... Sure! No official 32x32 modular has ever had three buildings. Did that stop me? No. No official modular has ever had a curved façade. Did that stop me? Of course not! As a fun fact, I messed up the colouring of one brick of the model and realised the issue after rendering. I edited and covered it up in Photoshop. Can you even spot it? Very difficult, btw! Eurobricks Topic: Building Period: Feb 2018 - May 2018 Pieces: 4481 on a 32x32 baseplate 9. Disco 2000 Vinyl Store It had never occurred to me that I hated how a model I made looked. After some hours of working on it, it would look wrong. This happened again and again and again. This was because the image in my mind of the final product kept on changing, an extremely dangerous thing to happen. I'm not sure if it's better than my two previous corner models, The Iron Horse and Sweets & Co., but I'm really happy that I managed to make three unique buildings (getting really tough after nine models and thirteen from Lego!) look awesome. I used some awesome colour combos, dark red and sand green; white, yellow and blue which are surprisingly unique. As for techniques, Disco 2000 is by a long shot the most complex model I've built. I have a library of techniques I might use (especially for cornices) and there's still many on the waiting list; one has been waiting for over half a year (didn't fit neither in KC nor in D2000) and I'm dying to use in a model. At least I have an exuse to start a new one Eurobricks Topic: Building Period: Apr 2018 - Sep 2018 Pieces: 3743 on a 32x32 baseplate 10. Baseplate Alley The lack of physical time to build this model (it took me over a year to complete fully) was on one hand frustrating but at the same time inspiring. I have a visual dictionary in my mind of concepts and ideas I like and want to try out; one that was fed slowly but surely all those days without building. In the meantime, I discovered many inspiring designs and my inspiration became rougher, broader. Both a Rothko and Art Nouveau cornices would sit next to the sausage Lego piece as things I wanted to find a way for in in this model. I struggled quite a bit trying to find the layout of the building. The idea of the two angular façades poking out came to me in a Basque town near Bilbao. I already had the one in the right in place and was finding it hard to complete the model. I tried curved designs, not dissimilar to those in Klee Corner of Disco 2000 but just seemed to make the already-complete right building worse. It was around then that I realised I could use what I now call the "School of Athens" effect (surely other people call it different things). I could duplicate the existing design, keep the structure and change the details and colours. The same thing goes for Raphael's School of Athens: it's structurally symmetric (the architecture and the patterns on the floor marble are so) but the figures and the details on the façades differ. That's where the building on the left came from. You can see the different details differ between both façades. I'm very passionate about colour. I find it fascinating how two or more colours can transform one another to create strakingly different effects. Matisse is undobtedly a (or the) big name in the history of colour in art. His daring colour choices are extremely appealing to me. The orange-on-blue colour scheme is one I had wanted to use for a while and I'm glad that I found its home here; and on my tenth finished modular, something super special! Side note: when I began with Magic Shop in November of 2015 (jeez, 4 years ago) I thought I would completely run out of ideas before ariving here. Truth is, I've become a much more cultured man in the process of coming to where I am and all that knowledge I now have is what has allowed me not only to keep going but to bring real innovation to the table. I feel like I'm breaking new ground with every model. Ideas that I hope you'll want to further explore yourselves. I most of the times work from what my gut induces me to work in. I find it particularly interesting that thanks to this odd "mental visual dictionary", I barely look up actual architecture for inspiration. Most of what is shown here is a mix of the real-world architecture knowledge I've acquired over time and other arts: painting, filmmaking and music, among others. It's hard to explain; it feels like I'm building a façade I'm reminiscent of while looking at the building from a Fauvist point of veiw, for instance. Weird, I know. Anyway, I feel like I'm guided by something bizarre when designing. The eyes of experience, I guess. Eurobricks Topic: Building Period: Sep 2018 - Sep 2019 Pieces: 3581 on a 32x32 baseplate Why Am I Writing This? I've always wanted to have my modulars be seen as a unit, as something that one builds upon the other. They're on a Flickr album all together, but I want to use this space as more of a personal diary of what makes a design of mine come to life. Hope to hear from you guys! Leave your comments, please note this is the work of almost 4 years, so take this into consideration! Thanks!! Pau

To be honest, something like a governmental building would be the worst. I love the modulars which are relatable; Parisian Restaurant, Detective's Office. Whatever they do it will be absolutely amazing. But please, no hospital nor school!

Sorry for answering so late, I even forgot I had this thread open! So glad you like it. I really wanted to make something noboday had ever seen before! Exactly! This is inspired by the 45-degree corners in Barcelona! Now that you say so, yes, some tables would look great out there!

Very cool! I saw some years ago (I'm pretty sure it still was an old Cuusoo project!) something like this. Let me find the pictures. It's exactly what I've always wanted. Shame the Cuusoo project never got there. I wish you much more luck! Btw, looking at those designs, it seems like TLG has been copying them rencently. The last one especially looks just like the Nexo Knights tile/shield or even more like the minecraft minecart tile for making turns.

Just curious, how would a train station fit with the other modulars. The track going through its back? For me the interior is the cherry topping, but not the main source of interest for the model. I think they should do exterior detail like they've never done before. If you take a look at previous modulars, none has that "photo-realism", they're all Lego versions of cool buildings. I bet they could do something crazy for once. Assembly Square was big but not crazy. For crazy I mean something like one of my modulars; eg Sweets & Co. I bet this would be really popular among AFOLs, don't you think!

Thanks! The fact that you're Italian and you love it is super awesome, thanks!! Took some effort definetly! Thanks a lot!

Hey guys! Hope you like this modular/landmark mash-up of Venice's Piazza San Marco! It sits on two 32x32 plates, so it's double a modular building and 16 studs larger than Assembly Square. The most prominent feature definetly is the Campanile. The Campanile stands somewhere around 80cm/20 inches -about the same size as the Disny Castle!-. Next to it sits the Palazzo Ducale, the palace of the dukes, but here it houses a library. This model is so huge I had to cut down on interior space and back walls. The back walls are now just some panels to save pieces. Even though, it still has some 4700. I did overuse a bit the flower stud in white... Aside from that, note that I made specific capitals for each column and I used the ingot in sand green, which looks awesome! The rooftop details are ALWAYS the most fun to build, so here's what I did for this building: window pieces with one of the new pyramid tiles on top! Easy but very effective. Also see the Christmas tree as tile decoration on the street! Hope you like this project as much as I do, and check out my Flickr account for extra pictures! https://www.flickr.com/photos/138575523@N07/ Profile https://www.flickr.com/photos/138575523@N07/35673433765/in/dateposted-public/ Extra Picture

Not really about the modulars, but do you know why they skipped 10256? I mean... 10255 Assembly Square 10257 Carrousel 10258 London Bus

This is really admirable work! 45-degree entrances especially! Well done sir!

So great! I participated too in that contest with my mini Magic Shop and Italian Villa! Tbh, I only aspire to one the runner-ups, competition is too fierce to win (with over 1000 entires, I think!!). Either way, Assembly Square as runner-up is amazeballs! Your stuff looks great! Luv those awnings using a cheese slope!

Something I've always wanted to ask them is: "How do you choose the style of building (gothic, art nouveau...) every new modular has? Is it in a meeting or one just has the flint that sparks the idea? And just mention that a modular MOC released would be awesome!

Vote this bad boy in: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/165581 Please! My fifth attempt on building the best modular building I could. This time, a corner building, with a huge diagonal façade, and two very easily differentiated buildings: one royal blue and aqua with 1x1 tiles sticked on the wall and the other white, royal blue and teal. You can probably see this, but this was done in the purpose of it being hyper-ultra-mega colorful. Crafted with 2994 bricks, and includes 5 minifigures. I'm pretty sure it would stand about 30-32cm tall (12-12'5 inches). Some more images: Close up of white/teal façade. Notice the nice tree, and sculpture design on top of the building. The other façade. Beautiful gradient upwards! My whole collection. Kinda shocking how earthy the ones on the right look, and how happy the ones on the left look! Hope to see you sometime soon on my project's comment section and supporter list!

Staff Picked on Lego Ideas! What a recognition! https://ideas.lego.com/projects/127875 Please consider voting if you haven't or share on Twitter, Facebook or anything you can think of! T5KAB

3 4 4 14 16 Really great ones! The train (number 4) is amazing!

To fix the "half modular issue" they could do something like they did with Market Street, a good 16-wide building and sth else decent to fill the space, so that people don't feel "guilty" leaving out a big building... If that makes any sense...

Yeah, if you don't like the source material there's not much I can do... But it really was me who misunderstood you.

I actually considered making a 32-wide Casa Batlló, but the roof was just a complete flop. Making them 16-wide makes them unrealistic un terms of width, but feasible in terms of overall look for the modular street!

I get your points guys. Saying something is dog's breakfast isn't the nicest thing, but hey, I'll respect your opinion anyways. I was feeling like the modular street was getting too... Americanised and boring. Everything with the same roofs, same windows etc. A bit of a change is good, and yes, that includes dragon roofs... Thanks to those who supported!

Thanks so much! From the bottom of my heart!

Old Ben's Gallery is my take on taking Pet Shop's concept to the max. (Loosely) based on Casa Amatller and Casa Batlló in Barcelona. Includes exactly 3000 bricks, quite funny.... If you feel like it's worth it, support it on Ideas: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/163149 It's even hard to know where to look here! There's stuff everywhere! To save space, notice how the staircase goes through the outside. Second floor. Quite cosy, not much to showcase though, appart from that beautiful painting made out of custom prints. Detail of the two very different but complimentary roofs. The five minifigures. Close-ups of porcelain table, hat-hanger, painter painting MS, IV & TIH, painting, mini models... Together with Italian Villa and The Iron Horse! Together with Magic Shop! Along with Assembly Square, they're quite complimentary, I think!

Polaroid image! Rather cool I'd say!