Dublin City Hall.. and Lego
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The Dublin City Hall made entirely out of Lego can be seen at the exquisite Ballyfermot Leabharlann.
Designed and built in 5 months from 381,238 LEGO bricks by F Jones of LEGO UK Ltd for the Dublin Millennium 1988. And no, it’s not for sale.
I must say, they have really put a lot of work into this.. I never knew one could achieve such detail with LEGO bricks.
Looks like that legoman is having trouble getting up that hill.
Yes! They’ve included the entrance hall.
I told you it had to be see to be believed. Amazing, isn’t it?
The Reflecting City exhibition is currently showing at the leabharlann too. Might be worth popping your head in if you’re in the area. This thing below is on display along with about 4 or 5 others.
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Brilliant!
That is really fantastic – the dentil course bricks are ingenious! That is by far the most important aspect of any Lego model (apparently :)) – choosing what bricks to use that will best reflect the character and scale of what you’re trying to replicate. And to think this was all done when the building was as black as coal!The scale and proportions of the building as a whole are simply superb – from a distance its near-on perfect.
And as for the pediment from afar – magnificent! Just a shame the windows look like PVC…ok, I must say that’s an incredible piece of work.. I wonder if the exhibit has any lego tips and tricks…
Because the scaling looks awesome…
Is there any idea of the time frame in which that took?I am having flashbacks to my youth here. I remember seeing that when it was first built. It was at the ‘lego exhibition’ and I think it was part of the Dublin 1988 Millenium celebrations. I have a photo of it from the time somewhere!
Thanks for posting it Morlan
Fantastic,
plastic swipe cards of the City for its creator
@Shad_23 wrote:
ok, I must say that’s an incredible piece of work.. I wonder if the exhibit has any lego tips and tricks…
Because the scaling looks awesome…
Is there any idea of the time frame in which that took?It took 1 person 5 months
Pity bright green bricks only came later – they would have been perfect for the dome:
I must admit to having attempted a few Dublin buildings in my time, the Custom House being the only vaguely successful one – ‘successful’ in terms of the resources of a 13 year old and their broken up sets you’ll understand 🙂
I’d post the sole surviving picture, but…well, y’know…@Paul Clerkin wrote:
what a great job – both the model and as a career
Apparently when Lego Windsor was being constructed a number of Oxford students were used to execute the models and received in the region of £15k each for 3 months work and at most 2-3 buildings
Not quite on Lego, but as part of Dundalk’s ‘retail park’ :rolleyes: currently being developed, a large model park is planned, apparently to be one of the best of its kind in Europe. I’ve heard that major Irish buildings will feature, but it all may come to nothing…
I used to work for a firm and we built a number of scale models for a model park in Wicklow including Russborough, Longford Terrace in Monkstown, and Bolands Mill…
a city of biscuits
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4733304.stmThat is fantastic, the detail and scale are faultless. Well done to everyone who put it together, (even the quantity surveyor).
Is it still on public display somewhere? I’d love to see it.
Or (rant coming up) did my neighbour’s 5 year old brat get his grubby little hands on it and turn it into a spaceship, robot or some other hideous creature along the lines of Hawkins House.
All of us who loved Lego as kids will know what I mean. Our architectural masterpieces were torn to pieces and lost forever by that same neighbours brat (they’re everywhere) when our back was turned.
And all becuase of those distracting threats eminating from the kitchen downstairs. “Your dinner is getting cold”.Ah Global Citizen, you’re looking at it the wrong way. It was a vital life lesson on the ephemeral nature of the successes we achieve through our powers of actualization and how our innate idealistic reaction against authoritarianism is triumphed by the the fundamental demands and appetites associated our physical manifestation.
I must admit I was somewhat in the brutalist school when it came to Lego. Form was secondary to function. Then when technics appeared that was the end of my architectural phase. I gave up building houses and other buildings and dedicated myself to mechanical projects. Before that the only way to build stuff with moving parts was with Mechano but jeezus what a frustrating experience that could be.
I’ve a vague memory of GrahamH and a lego model of the Late Late set?
I remembering seeing this on the Late Late toy show when I was a kid. Think there was a competition to guess the number of bricks used? Anyone else remember?
If you look very carefully there is a lego GrahamH taking a photo and shaking his head at the state of the lego pavement 😀
Anyone here ever see The Late Late Show hosted by that well known Southside squatter Pat the Plank all made, remarkably, in Lego?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kTZSw-5g1Yi think the unassuming poster immediately before you may have seen it once or twice 😉
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