A Modular Building

[Athos]

I started working on this modular building. Its loosely based on the old JC Penny's in my hometown and the clothing store in the town I live in now.

Stage One, including experimental second floor and the beginnings of an interior

Stage Two, including the finished second floor.

Steve

[Follows Closely]

I started working on this modular building. Its loosely based on the old JC Penny's in my hometown and the clothing store in the town I live in now.

Stage One, including experimental second floor and the beginnings of an interior

Stage Two, including the finished second floor.

Steve

I like the inverted bay entry, and how you solved the asymmetric issues with that design. I attempted a similar entry and ended up making the building too wide to keep it symmetric. I like your approach better. Keep us posted.

Edited January 12, 2010 by Follows Closely

[lightningtiger]

Nice start to your department store 'Athos' !

Please keep going - love to see the rest of the interior done !

[Rick]

This will be a thread to watch. I like what I'm seeing so far...

[Holodoc]

Nice building so far, Steve!

In my opinion the first floor needs a bit more variety. I don't know if it's based on the original though, so you may want to keep it that way, but for me it lacks ornamental stuff. It looks very plane and "in-line". I noticed you try to break that by using the round bricks at the end and the logged bricks in the midlle, but still. The heavily use of the small windows play a role, too.

I know, a lot of buildings look that way, but are these really the best buildings to make a Lego copy of?

Last of all I would place the male minifig with the blue coat different. He looks towards to wall and can hardly be seen from the outside.

But all that aside I'd love to see more pics of your w-i-p.

[I Scream Clone]

Off to a great start Steve, the few things bothering me is the fact that the entrance is off center with two round brick towers on one side and one tower on the other. Another thing is the black baseplate for the 1st floor, perhaps raising the black baseplate on the first floor up or thickening it would give a stronger thicker floor like appearance to the different levels. I also find all the little windows a bit plain and distracting too, perhaps some snot style windows using 1 x 2 clear bricks would allow for a different look, or even half setting windows in with jumper bricks. You could also break up the all white of the frames with tan or grey plates between. Probably need a reference for me to make all these calls, when you probably have the design spot on already

[Athos]

There really isn't any reference I'm trying to copy exactly, so your suggestions are most helpful.

Steve

[prateek]

Looking good! I like the 2nd floor windows

[MatthewUSA]

Athos, your MOC is looking good. Certainly looks like a building you would see in Downtown USA. Definitely keep us posted on the progress.

Model On!!

[BlueBard]

Nice start, indeed! Look forward for the final result

[curtisrlee]

Wow, very good! It looks like a store in MY town!

[wooootles]

Love what you've done here.

-Diagonal windows = very nice

-Nice choice of colors, tan is very modular-friendly.

-Ceiling height for the 1st floor too low, considering its a dept. store. Two or three more brick heights would make it better

[Athos]

OK, here is version three. I added some more color, raised the second floor, made the building symetrical and added some architectural details.

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Athos/In...deptstore1c.jpg

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Athos/In...deptstore2c.jpg

Steve

[Rick]

I really like the color scheme you're using (tan/dark blue) and the work on the second floor windows looks promising. The stairs leading up there look a little 'plain' for a store though. Some railings might do the trick. Or you could try something like this (hope you get what I mean):

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Edited January 19, 2010 by Rick