Posted August 5, 20159 yr Good news, Architecture fans! (Images updated on 16 Dec 15 by WhiteFang) 21028 New York City 21026 Venice 21027 Berlin 21031 Burj Khalifa Summer: 21028 US Landmark 21029 Buckingham Palace Edited December 16, 20159 yr by WhiteFang
August 5, 20159 yr Um... Whole cities? Anyone able to give a better translation than Google? New York City Building and Construction Toys? Edited August 5, 20159 yr by rollermonkey
August 5, 20159 yr Author On 8/5/2015 at 9:45 PM, rollermonkey said: Um... Whole cities? Anyone able to give a better translation than Google? New York City Building and Construction Toys? Maybe it's a micro build of a portion of the city, like Times Square or something.
August 5, 20159 yr On 8/5/2015 at 8:38 PM, CM4Sci said: Good news, Architecture fans! 21028 New York City 21026 Venice 21027 Berlin 21018 Burj Khalifa (didn't they already do this?) Burj khalifa is 21031. 21018 is UN headquarters 21025, 21029, 21030 has no mention Each listing has the box size and weight in grams and they are all different from each other Edited August 5, 20159 yr by Steve309
August 5, 20159 yr On 8/5/2015 at 9:45 PM, rollermonkey said: Um... Whole cities? Anyone able to give a better translation than Google? New York City Building and Construction Toys? Pretty sure its temporary, just indicating from what city the building/model will be from.
August 6, 20159 yr My guess is that each will be a single building in the respective cities. They might be located to existing or planned LEGO Stores, like the Flatiron set which came out very close to the opening of a store in the Flatiron district. As per usual, religious buildings are unlikely candidates. Some candidates for NYC: Chrysler Building (my preference) One WTC (most likely - notable and brand new - big visitors center planned.) Citicorp Woolworth Building Hearst Tower. NY Public Library Some candidates in Venice: Villa La Rotonda, by Andrea Palladio (technically outside Venice, my pick.) Campanile di San Marco (can be completed in a reasonable sized model.) Doge's Palace (difficult to create a reasonable sized model.) Some candidates in Berlin: I've only visited Berlin once, so I can't speak to which seems most likely... Reichstag (lots of history, and blend of old and new with 1992 renovation.) Berlin TV Tower Charlottenburg Palace As for why they decided to create a new version of the Burj Khalifa - my guess is that they feel like there is money to be made with a better model of this famous building. (The existing model is one of the weakest in the entire Architecture series.) I would still rather a completely new model than a remake. What do you think? What iconic buildings have I missed? ---Tom Alphin
August 6, 20159 yr On 8/6/2015 at 5:36 AM, henrysunset said: As for why they decided to create a new version of the Burj Khalifa - my guess is that they feel like there is money to be made with a better model of this famous building. (The existing model is one of the weakest in the entire Architecture series.) I would still rather a completely new model than a remake. What do you think? What iconic buildings have I missed? ---Tom Alphin Burj Khalifa may probably be a re-tool of sorts using this part and long cross-axles, or maybe built to be in scale with Robie House.
August 6, 20159 yr Burj Al-Arab? Would be interesting to see how they would make the curved survaces.
August 6, 20159 yr None of the links are working now so maybe it was all just a mistake...NYC we have enough NYC buildings...move along TLG, move along. So many good buildings to choose from it is sad we get only 2 or 3 offerings a year, just waiting on Sept 1 to get the Louvre. Waiting on another Sydney Opera House large size building as well.
August 6, 20159 yr Burj Al Arab would be easy - Spencer Rezkalla already designed a perfect model in an appropriate scale. LINK: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/514606694894243655/ ---tom
August 6, 20159 yr On 8/6/2015 at 1:14 PM, Herky said: None of the links are working now so maybe it was all just a mistake...NYC we have enough NYC buildings...move along TLG, move along. I think lego just asked them to take the pages down because not formally announced yet. Few years ago Barnes and Nobel put up 2 early on their site Eames house and villa Savoye (I think) Eames house ended up getting cancelled and leaning tower of Pisa came out instead. So you can be right and these may not come out. As for New York. It has been over done. Chrysler tower has been seen in one of the photos from the Sears tower or John Hancock tower instruction book. But those are on scale as the first 4 sets. And seems like those aren't done any more. Recent towers have been bigger ( Burj, Pisa, Eiffel) If it is a New York building I'm hoping it's one world trade centre.
August 7, 20159 yr On 8/6/2015 at 5:36 AM, henrysunset said: My guess is that each will be a single building in the respective cities. They might be located to existing or planned LEGO Stores, like the Flatiron set which came out very close to the opening of a store in the Flatiron district. As per usual, religious buildings are unlikely candidates. Some candidates for NYC: Chrysler Building (my preference) One WTC (most likely - notable and brand new - big visitors center planned.) Citicorp Woolworth Building Hearst Tower. NY Public Library Some candidates in Venice: Villa La Rotonda, by Andrea Palladio (technically outside Venice, my pick.) Campanile di San Marco (can be completed in a reasonable sized model.) Doge's Palace (difficult to create a reasonable sized model.) Some candidates in Berlin: I've only visited Berlin once, so I can't speak to which seems most likely... Reichstag (lots of history, and blend of old and new with 1992 renovation.) Berlin TV Tower Charlottenburg Palace As for why they decided to create a new version of the Burj Khalifa - my guess is that they feel like there is money to be made with a better model of this famous building. (The existing model is one of the weakest in the entire Architecture series.) I would still rather a completely new model than a remake. What do you think? What iconic buildings have I missed? ---Tom Alphin Tom, about Venice, I incline towards Rialto Bridge.
August 10, 20159 yr On 8/7/2015 at 9:51 AM, Stephane769 said: Tom, about Venice, I incline towards Rialto Bridge. I think that's a good guess. I forget to include landmarks that aren't buildings. They proved a willingness to be flexible with the recent Trevi Foutnain Set. (Which has some excellent Baroque detailing.) ---tom
August 15, 20159 yr http://www.hothbricks.com/2015/08/lego-architecture-offrez-vous-lhotel-hilton-paris-opera/ This article about a nonofficial architect set roughly translates to say the same list as was given above. Edited August 15, 20159 yr by jluck
September 4, 20159 yr I would love to see how they would do the WTC One. I really want one for the New WTC towers. Long history with those buildings
September 5, 20159 yr On 9/4/2015 at 6:58 PM, LegendsOfNinjago said: I would love to see how they would do the WTC One. I really want one for the New WTC towers. Long history with those buildings I would like to see if there is another way to do it than what I did : http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=76694
September 6, 20159 yr On 9/5/2015 at 3:40 PM, DanSto said: I would like to see if there is another way to do it than what I did : http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=76694 I had never thought about that before, I like it.
September 15, 20159 yr Is there something to say about when to expect these sets to be released, more particular the New York City set? Beside the ideas mentioned by CM4Sci (Times Square would be awesone) and Tom Alphin, how about Grand Central with the MetLife building, the Public Library with Bryant Park or maybe Bethesda Terrace and Fountain?
September 18, 20159 yr Author Yep, whoever guessed they'd be micro builds of the cities was right! Please ignore my really bad thing of not knowing these buildings. Berlin - Brandenburg Gate. Tall needle-like building, red and white. Black building that looks round. Tall statue, has a gold trophy fig on top. Tan building with grey roof. Next to the building are two 1x2 tiles with prints on them, they look like banners/advertisements/something. New York - Statue of Liberty (sand green trophy) Empire State Building, building blocked by a flash, white/glass building, One World Trade Center Venice - houses on a bridge, water underneath. white, brown building with sand green roof. Tall brown building with green roof, looks like Big Ben. Another white building Burj Khalifa is huge. Much better than the last one.
September 18, 20159 yr On 9/18/2015 at 3:13 AM, CM4Sci said: Yep, whoever guessed they'd be micro builds of the cities was right! Please ignore my really bad thing of not knowing these buildings. Berlin - Brandenburg Gate. Tall needle-like building, red and white. Black building that looks round. Tall statue, has a gold trophy fig on top. Tan building with grey roof. Next to the building are two 1x2 tiles with prints on them, they look like banners/advertisements/something. New York - Statue of Liberty (sand green trophy) Empire State Building, building blocked by a flash, white/glass building, One World Trade Center Venice - houses on a bridge, water underneath. white, brown building with sand green roof. Tall brown building with green roof, looks like Big Ben. Another white building Burj Khalifa is huge. Much better than the last one. Thanks for the description Can't wait to see pictures. To see the new line https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernsehturm_Berlin For Berlin I believe this would be the tower And Chrysler tower covered by flash id assume Edited September 18, 20159 yr by Steve309
September 18, 20159 yr On 9/18/2015 at 3:13 AM, CM4Sci said: Yep, whoever guessed they'd be micro builds of the cities was right! Please ignore my really bad thing of not knowing these buildings. Show Tom Alphin the photos and he'd probably know them all. For now, here are my guesses. On 9/18/2015 at 3:13 AM, CM4Sci said: Berlin - Brandenburg Gate. Tall needle-like building, red and white. Black building that looks round. Tall statue, has a gold trophy fig on top. Tan building with grey roof. Next to the building are two 1x2 tiles with prints on them, they look like banners/advertisements/something. Huh, so they'll be to scale. Good thing. On 9/18/2015 at 3:13 AM, CM4Sci said: New York - Statue of Liberty (sand green trophy) Empire State Building, building blocked by a flash, white/glass building, One World Trade Center Dissed that they didn't use the minifig, though maybe it's not to scale with the ESB? We're looking at the Manhattan area with the two known towers, so I'm taking a stab at calling either two of the glass-clad towers in this photo for the white/glass building. The other one's more tricky.
September 18, 20159 yr Berlin, New York, Venice will be my first Architecture sets then. I hoped for miniature scaled models of the cities.
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