[MOC] The Edge

[F0NIX]

This is another model of a real building from my home town Tromsø in northern part of Norway.

Clarion Hotel The Edge was opened 1.may 2014. When they started building it, there had already been some pictures in the local newspaper of how it was supposed to look when finished. And I liked the shape.

The architect was inspired of some other spectacular buildings in the town: Ishavskatedralen and Polaria that I have made a model of in LEGO before. I like this type of architecture.

I also like some challenges and thought all those angles looks fun and interesting to build. I settled on minifig scale (1:42) just to get as much details of the buildings as I could (there are not many).

I used photos that I took myself and some floor and facade drawings to help me plan this out. This is my first LEGO MOC in this huge size so I tried to plan as well as I could.

I had a few criteria beside the scale of the building, that I wanted to follow:

* It needs to be easy to set up and taken down.

* It needs to be stable enough for a public exhibition.

* It needs to be as compact as possible when packed down.

Used LEGO Duplo bricks as support columns inside. Used LEGO Technic for structural support rack/scaffolding inside to hold up the brick built walls. And it can be dismantled and packed down as a IKEA furniture set (without the umbraco keys) :)

The pictures is taken on the first exhibition it was on. PKH2015 in Trondheim, Norway. Not 100% complete yet. Missing some parts that had to be substituted with the closest part I could find until the new parts arrive. The new parts has now been placed and the model is again ready for a new exhibition.

PKH is short for "På Kloss Hold" that translates to "at close range" but the word "kloss" could also means like a LEGO brick. So it is a play on words. PKH is the Norwegian LUG Brikkelaugets annual meeting and exhibition.

Right front facade:

Left front facade:

Right rear facade:

Front facade:

Top View:

The Real Building:

More pictures here.

Some numbers:

Real building: 42m high

Model = 100cm high

Number of bricks: more than 20.000

And here is a video from when I was setting it up for the first time at the first exhibition it was shown at. It was on "På Kloss Hold 2016", the Norwegian LUG Brikkelauget's yearly event.

I have fixed a few things on the building since those pictures was taken:

• Swapped the black bricks with trans-black panel and bricks in the front where I ran out of bricks before PKH.
  
• Made the sign on top of the building.
  
• Made one of the huge air conditioning units that sits on top of the first floor in the rear right corner.
  
• Fixed some of the gaps on the roof where I had trouble finding a wedge plate that matched the angle of the wall.
  
• Fixed some other small gaps here and there.
  
• Fixed a little low wall on top of the roof of the first floor.
  
• I will maybe set out some more minifigs with bags and suitcases and a taxi in front of the hotel. But that depends on how accessible the parts are for small fingers ;)
  

There are also a few other things that I may do with the model in the future:

• Around on the facade there are some vertical glass panels on the real building. But since they are made of glass they are not very visible in the day. But in the night they are lit up from behind with some cold white-bluish light. But I have not found a good way to implement this feature so it is not very visible in the day.
  
• The small posts in the front has a trans clear round 1x1 plate in every second post. On the real building those post are lit up at night. I have already made the model so it is possible to put in light here, but I have not put in the LED here yet.
  
• There are also some cranes here and there on top of the building. Those cranes lower down a basket so they can clean the facade of the building. I may put in those at a later time to. I have to find a nice way to build them in the right scale first, and here I only have pictures from below to look at.
  

[soccerkid6]

Magnificent replica of a extremely impressive building The numerous angles and sheer size really grab the eye

[GhostDog]

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Edited February 1, 2024 by GhostDog

[iammac]

Looks great!

[Kristel]

Very impressive! Well done on all those angled walls.

[peedeejay]

Great build!

[Captain Braunsfeld]

Great rendition of the original!

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

epic masterpiece

[Brickextreme]

Great job on replicating a very challenging architectural structure!

[Paul F]

Amazing, I can see why you chose that building.

Doing it mini figure scale is truly impressive, I'm imagining a whole city built up like this as opposed to the smaller buildings, really great!

[Plurallvitch]

A fantastic representation of the original building.

Great job!

[F0NIX]

Then I have set up this model for the fourth time and got some more detailed pictures.

But here is a few examples:

Here is the groundplane put down. There is now lights in the post along the sidewalk. Those yellow squares marks where the internal columns should stand.

Colorful inside :)

But nothing of this will be seen when the model is finished set up. I use Duplo for the columns. Here the walls for the ground and 1. floor is set up.

Here is the roof on top of the first floor and the internal construction that holds up the side panels for the rest of the building. The internal structure is built with Technic parts.

The wall panels on the right side is up. The orange column in the front is just a temporary column for help under the setup. This holds some weight of the right front panel until I got more weight on the rest of the internal structure.

The six main panels on the right and left side set up.

The start of the roof construction,

Here the finished model is set up. Have now got a sign on top of the roof, a ventilation unit on top of the first floor in the rear. And some small gaps around is fixed. Have also put in all those trans-black parts I was missing and had to swap for normal black parts before the PKH exhibition.

You can see all the pictures here:

https://www.flickr.c...157645474900943

[polarstein]

The original is very well captured, what a massive MOC! One of the best lego buildings I've seen, huge scale. Must be a pain to set it up for exhibitions, I hope you don't have to destroy it at some point.

[Junior Shark]

I came through expecting a MOC of the U2 guitarist, but this is sooooo much better! Honestly, I have no words for this. Just looking at it, it doesn't look like Lego, which earns it an A+ in my book!

[Dazz]

This is an awesome model. I'd love to see more models of yours in the future.