I recently bought the 21050 Architecture Studio set and I am hooked! I try to build a small piece every evening, take a picture, and then take it apart. That means only smaller houses, facades, details, etc, so far. Most of the time I build from pictures I find on Instagram, where I also post my photos (username is askansbricks if someone wants to pay a visit).

Here is some of the work. Please feel free to comment, I am thankful to any advice or tricks I can get.

Torres Blancas, Madrid, by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza

Arne Jacobsen’s petrol station in Skovshoved, Denmark

Bernat Klein Studio by Peter Womersley

Justice Building, Albany, NY by Wallace Harrison

Facade, Slovenia, architect unknown to me

Building, country and architect unknown to me

Skyscraper, Manchester, UK, architect unknown to me

Building, Cardiff, Wales, architect unknown to me

School Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan by Arata Endo

Balcony, Hamburg, Germany, architect unknown to me

Just a pic to show how I take the photo. Any advice for improvement is appreciated. I try to take the picture to make it look like the picture I am working from.

Edited October 6, 20159 yr by Askan

Very nice, such determination, they all look really good!

Andy D

Thank you Andy, very kind!

Very well done! I like the balcony best.

Good job. I like the perspectives.

The first is near my home

I like the building from unknown arquitect

Thanks Graham and FonsoSac.

It must be great to live close to Torres Blancas I hope one day I will have the opportunity to see those white towers in real life.

Wednesday's and Thursday's pieces:

Unknown wall in an unknown place by unknown architect. I really love the original photo!

Pilatis of BergenTown Hall, Norway, architect Erling Viksjo.

I had problems taking a picture of this as I wanted to show both the tiles of the ground and the details/structure of the ceiling. It was difficult/ with iphone camera and I wasn't really successful.

Edited October 9, 20159 yr by Askan

Wonderful mini architecture series you have here! It really shows what a creative mind can come with using the studio set. I love how you have taken the photos using the same perspective as the real life counterpart.

The #2 building with your catwoman is a photo by Jeffrey Smart, building in Adelaide Australia. Tip/trick: You can drag images and drop them into Google Images search bar to search an image to find it's original source (often),

Iria, thank you so much for the kind words and for the advice about image search. That will definitely be helpful.

Regarding the catwoman I actually thought it looked too good to have been taken by some random dude on Instagram. Therefore I did some research this morning and found out it was Smart. I would like to buy a copy and frame it, it is one of the best photos I have ever seen, bjt I guess they dont come cheap :)

Edited October 10, 20159 yr by Askan

Really beautiful builds.. how do you get your picture inspirations from? Nice black background too.

Now if only Archi studio came in tan.. haha

Edited October 10, 20159 yr by santaends

Thanks santaends! I get the pictures mostly from Instagram. I especially look for modernism, brutalism, etc and then when I find something I like, and it looks like I can build it in one evening, then I save it to my gallery. Then when the kids are asleep I chose a picture depending on time and what I feel like doing.

Edited October 10, 20159 yr by Askan

Last days works:

German staircase

One Woodward Avenue, Detroit, by Minoru Yamasaki

Some more German stairs and a facade

Some balconies

And finally two minimalistic facades

Edited October 17, 20159 yr by Askan

Looking good! Is there a reason you dont work with colour?

Looking good! Is there a reason you dont work with colour?

Thanks! I use white for several reasons. Mostly because i like the simplicity of it. I do not have to chase bricks and pieces all the time, or wait for bricklink orders to come in. Instead I can focus on building. And i do not have to look for perfection by finding the perfect part. That gives me a lot of pleasure. I also think it looks good and gives certain challenges to only work with one colour. However I have started to use black also sometimes, for example in small windows.

Edited October 19, 20159 yr by Askan

So far I have been avoiding the rounded bricks and pieces in my Studio set, simply because I don't know what to do with them. To overcome my fear for the rounded, I made two small Art Deco pieces. The first one is inspired from Jerry's Famous Deli, by Henry Hohauser. As you can see, I used a photo from Tom Alphin's The Lego Architect as sort of a model. The second building is inspired from an Art Deco building in Portsmouth.

These are so cool! A great advertisement for the Studio set, although I strongly suspect that you are very talented at making these and are just making it look easy. Keep up the good work, I am secretly just waiting to see if you make the building I work in, its an eyesore but apparently quite important architecturally... :-)

BrickOn,

Thank you! Now you got me curious. please give me some more hints about the building???

All these models looks amazing! Now I'm starting to think about buying the Studio set.

6ix: I can only say one thing: Get it! It is so much fun, and that comes from a dude who mostly builds technic :)

Today's build is an architecture version of the coming Ghostbusters Firestation Headquarters set. I am happy how the

lower part turned out, but had some building stress at the upper parts and had to make a lot of shortcuts and compromises. And yes, if you look closely you can see that I only built one out of four walls

Edited October 28, 20159 yr by Askan

Awesome!

The ghost version of the ghostbusters hq :-)

6ix: Thanks!

Borex: Haunted Headquarter :)

Some more small creations.

Malmö City Library, Sweden. The library has several building that are connected. There is a cool contrast between the old "castle" and the new glass part, "The Calendar of Light". I really love this library and it is even more beautiful on the inside. Designed by Danish architect Henning Larsen, who also designed Copenhagen Opera House among many other masterpieces.

Lego Minimalism.

Stairs

Inner court yard in Madrid

Corridor, tried to simulate fluroscent lights in the ceiling and halloweeinize it a little :)

Edited November 2, 20159 yr by Askan

I love what you have done, I have this set on my wish list. (too)

Asilla: thank you! Don't we all have too many sets on our wishlists...

Fontana Boathouse, Buffalo, NY, by Frank Lloyd Wright. His first design of this building was already 1905, but it was not built until 2007.

Lisbon Wall

Texas Parking garage in microscale.

Edmonton Law Courts. Want to use the studs more as I think they add beautiful structure, however I think they became a little too dominant in this creation. In the beginning i planned to build this in the double size and use the studs of jumper plates to create the dotted pattern, maybe that would have worked better.

Lego minimalism

111 Picadilly Manchester, UK, designed by Douglas Stephen & Partners. As always the challenge with microscale is to find the essence of the building without having the opportunity to use the details. First I simplified the pillars, see top right, but thought that took away an important part of the building. Instead I put a black plate in between a white plate and tile to mimic the gap in the pillar. Then it became way too bulky. Never solved this problem :)

Brunnswick center, London, by Patrick Hodgkinson. Some more Lego brutalism :)

German building

Edited November 5, 20159 yr by Askan

The last days have a little bit of Bauhaus and Gropius days. I also sneaked in a Le Corbusier :)

Bauhaus school in Dessau Germany, by Walter Gropius.

Masters' houses by Gropius (Mäusterhäuser) in Dessau, Germany. Houses for Bauhaus masters with families. Famous people like Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Mies van der Rohe have lived here.

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, by le Corbusier. I am very happy with how my tile pattern turned out, where I have half a stud offset pattern. Also 4 studs tiles at bottom, 3 studs in middle and 2 studs at top.

Fagus Factory (Fagus-Werk) in Alfeld Germany, by Gropius and Adolf Meyer.

Another build from Masters' houses in Dessau by Gropius.

Edited November 18, 20159 yr by Askan