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Batman Bridge The Batman Bridge is the only bridge crossing the Tamar River, which is a 70km tidal saltwater estuary. It is named for John Batman who was a co-founder of Melbourne in the 1830s. Completed in 1968, this steel-decked bridge was the first cable-stayed bridge in Australia. The full length is 442m and the main span of 206m is suspended from a 100m high A-frame tower on solid dolerite on the west bank. The east bank is only soft clay, so steel piers are built on piles driven up to 18m deep, holding the road up until it reaches the causeway. All this is necessary to allow the 29m clearance below for ships. Quite a feat of engineering! To recreate this in Lego as an Architecture set requires a lot of poetic licence regarding relative scale (sadly), number of supports & cables. So this version is much shorter & wider than a true accurate model would be. And I wondered why no Architecture sets had been made of bridges... and it's no wonder how huge the expert Tower Bridge set is. I hope you like this little rendition of a very interesting contruction, it was fun despite the repeated running-out-of-parts-in-the-necessary-colour problem (what can I do instead?) that I'm sure we all have at times. More (and bigger) photos in the Flickr album. Finally, a bonus photo from google of a view I've never seen before today - wow:
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Hi guys, here is my entry for the "Local Landmarks Contest": I decided to rebuild the King-Friedrich-August-Tower (König-Friedrich-August-Turm) which is located in eastern Germany nearby the town Löbau and is named after a former king of Saxony (Friedrich August II.). It's the only observation tower made of cast iron in Europe that still exists and the parts of the tower were actually made in the iron works of my hometown Bernsdorf back in 1854! During realizing it in LEGO there were some problems to solve. The base of the tower is a regular octagon, which is not the most common shape of Lego parts and I had to find parts that can represent the iron construction. I decided to use the binocular piece which ended up in a very fragile construction. But, finally I am very pleased with the result, even if it is a little bit unstable ;) -
I wouldn't exactly say Los Angeles is known for it's architecture, but there are some nice buildings that deserve to have an architecture set. This isn't an amazing entry, but I am pretty pleased with it considering it's one of my first MOCs. This building was completed in 1956 and is the home of Capitol Records, a famous record label. It may be 30 miles from me, but it's still local enough. A picture of the side and back, including a section on the side where a mural is located, titled Hollywood Jazz. Front of the building. Here's a picture of the real building: I'm new here, so if I did anything wrong I'm sorry Please give feedback, I always like to improve.
