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I love it! It's nice and simple, but at the same time represents something you never see in a Lego city (but in reality would make up a part of it).

Very nice! I like the idea of alternating the flower beds to get some variation in the façade. However, I think having the two sandwich signs right next to each other is kinda strange. I'd put one over each of the central doors on each side- sorta what you'd expect from a street sign.

Wow, that's awesome! I actually have family in Cincy, but I've never been to the Over-the-Rhine area when visiting them. However, now that I've made this, I sorta have to! Thank you! The awning was actually sort of a happy accident- in the reference building, there was the second, smaller level of windows, but when I had it all accurately mocked up in LDD, it looked too plain- so I added the awning in about the only place I could. But I agree, I really like how it turned out!

Purple Pharmacist by Duncan Adkins, on Flickr What makes something a 'dark ages'? Is it just any time you take away from the hobby, or is it something that's up to the interpretation of the MOCer? Regardless, it seems like it's one of those things where you know it when you see it. And with that overwrought musing over, I'd like to jump back into this great old hobby headfirst with this MOC here, the Purple Pharmacist! Purple Pharmacist Sketch by Duncan Adkins, on Flickr Designed in the vein of the official modular buildings, and with a careful adherence to not go crazy with the unlimited pieces and unlimited space offered by LDD, this is a 2553 piece homage to the official sets. My process for designing started with a nascent idea that I wanted to try out some of the new purple pieces in the Friends sets- particularly Lavender. However, I found out that it is very limited in the number of pieces it comes in when those pieces are to be applied to a modular, and I thought that Medium Lilac meshed much better with the nougat of the brick bricks that I ended up wanting to use. Plus there are 1x2x3 windows in medium lilac/purple! With the simple idea that I wanted to use purple in mind, I delved into books, sketch paper, and Google image searches in order to put together a mood board of what types of architecture I'd like to pull from, as well as what colors I'd want to use. Then I came upon this: This italianate building in Cincinnati, Ohio's Over-the-Rhine district was almost exactly what I was imagining I wanted my building to look like. With all that in mind and planning finished, I built! Some of the trends from the modular buildings I took into account with my build were liberal use of striping, a primarily grey first floor facade, unique but meaningful color blocking, and a façade that is intricate in design, but not 'busy'. The ivy on the front was one big part of the 'intricate but not busy' paradigm- it added a lot of interest to the front and differentiated the top and middle floors, while not looking out of place and not clashing with the rest of the build. Purple Pharmacist by Duncan Adkins, on Flickr Outside of the façade I took some liberties though! I wanted to include a pergola in a build ever since seeing woooootles' Wasabi District Avenue Residences, so I did! Outside of that, the rear was mostly bland, as there will likely be little attention paid to it if this ever gets built. ;P Purple Pharmacist Rear by Duncan Adkins, on Flickr Purple Pharmacist roof by Duncan Adkins, on Flickr The way I designed the building posed a problem though- since I designed the façade before building out the rest of the building, all the way to the top, I had a design that I liked a lot, but it severely limited my options when adding the breakapart functionality of a classic modular building. It wasn't too bad between the ground floor and middle floor, or middle floor and top floor, but the relatively complicated and fragile structure of the cornice would have prevented adding in another plate layer. So I had to get creative- instead of popping off, the roof slides out! The rear wall and two outcroppings with tiles at the front hold the roof plates up, while the chimney actually serves as a 'clip' to hold the entire superstructure on! It works out perfectly, since the roof can be built entirely out of 4x10 dark grey plates. Purple Pharmacist Interior by Duncan Adkins, on Flickr Since I was trying to stay true to a limited part count for this one, only the first floor has a completed interior- but it's a fully stocked pharmacy with multiple shelves, a scale, a fancy curved desk for the pharmacist, and newspaper rack to sell people on while they wait for their prescription! On the residential side of the stairs, there is a bike rack and a hat rack, as well as the door out to the back patio. Unfortunately, it will be some time before this MOC has a chance of seeing the light of day. The 1x4/2x4 medium lilac slopes that are integral to the gable do not exist in any usable variety, and so construction is going to be held off until that piece...exists. Which is why I posted it here as only renders and screenshots instead of glorious full color photographs. In the mean time, you can look forward to my Police Headquarters MOC, which will be posted and explained in detail as soon as it's built! Constructive criticism welcome; it's good to be back!

Not bad at all! I feel like it would scale up well, but it would need so many trees!

I love your videos (and your MOCs!) Tobysan/BrickToyCo- this one was no exception! I do have to wonder though: how stable is the house? It seems like one of those things where it's strong on the corners, but if you pressed down on the middle, the floor would cave.

Looks like a Ford Transit with racing aerodynamics! A great look, but maybe not the best for just delivering packages ;P

Are the exhibits themselves individual modules? If so, you could make a really neat combined standard where you could stack them to make one large modular or spread them out like a traditional zoo!

This is fantastic, thank you! Now to do the new Ford GT! :P

Beautiful! I love the exterior; it's fantastic. Though it might be more of a clinic than a hospital- not too many patient beds in there!

I love how it fits within the modular format! And it's a fantastic skyscraper, awesome job Wooootles.

This is the link you are looking for! https://vimeo.com/167180679

Looking great! My one (hopefully) constructive criticism would be that only using the 1x1 round grey tiles looks far too uniform and 'pixel-y'. If you have the pieces, it seems that mixing in the occasional 2x2 grey round tile fleshes out the 1x1's very well, whilst making the look more realistic.

Yeah, I'd love that!

I love the 'reclaimed wood' around the refrigerator(?)! Great job all around, my only suggestion would be replacing the bricks in the light grey section around the gable with 1x1 round bricks- they match the rounded profile bricks better.

I really like how the entire 2nd floor façade of the florist is SNOT- I didn't even pick up on that at first! Also, the simplicity and effectiveness of the sticker on the flower van is perfect.

Oh man, I love all of these! But I really like the gas station- could we (or just I ) get the .lxf for it? I promise you'll be the first to know if/when I brick build it.

You should check out RoxYourBlox/RedCoKid's Spy Spire- it is also a skyscraper, designed in LDD, and uses interesting angles.

Nice job with the photography- they look great! And the model isn't half bad either; it looks like a souped-up version of TLG's fire stations!

Also, I'd like your permission to post this to/ invite you to post this at https://www.reddit.com/r/legomodular. It's a really great build and I'd love to see it there!

It may have been inspired by the Emerald House, but I personally think you have gone above and beyond and created your own building. I especially love the color scheme, as well as the fantastic use of texture bricks throughout the various floors. The ship's wheel is also a great addition and naturally draws the eye towards it. I think I love every variation you've made to the 'original'.

This is fantastic! I love the interior setup, and though you only linked it for context, your pizza parlor was great too. As someone else who builds on LDD and was thinking about selling instructions- do you host your own website/what sort of system do you have to set up to do that?

If I ever get my city/budget to the size I'd like it to have, I think I'd have to swing for brick built roads just like yours. They just offer so much flexibility in terms of how they can be designed, especially in relation to the road baseplates. I really love the little bridge over the canal as well.

That opening door is amazing! But I was wondering- it seems very space-intensive. Is there any way to reduce the amount of space it requires?

The cab is fantastic and really sells the image. All you need now is to make a busy street outside filled with them! :P