t-brick Posted February 28 Posted February 28 City Books is not my first modular building design, but it is the first with published instructions. I built the real world MOC some time ago and now decided to create a digital model and instructions as well (which can be found on Rebrickable, link at the bottom). My inspiration was to have a large bookstore on the first floor with a raised gallery in the back to accommodate even more books. The exterior is inspired by older New York buildings with their textured facades and the typical fire escapes on the outside. The first floor houses the eponymous bookshop with plenty of reading material on two levels. There is a similar store near me and I love going up the narrow stairs to the slightly wobbly wooden gallery and browsing through the books there. On the second floor sits an art gallery with lots of fun artworks made from different LEGO parts. On the third floor there is a nice apartment and on top of that a small roof garden where one can relax above the hustle and bustle of the city. My original model used sand green bricks for the coloured wall surfaces of the upper floors. That's fine if you own the Green Grocer modular building (10185), which contains many bricks in that color. Otherwise it's quite expensive to buy them, so for the instructions I replaced the color with sand blue, which also looks good. These are some pictures of the real world MOC: Flickr folder with some additional pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/181787965@N04/albums/72177720324129977/ If you are interested in the instructions, here is the Rebrickable instruction page: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-212480/T.Brick/city-books Thank you for reading! Best regards, Thilo Quote
Wesley D Posted March 1 Posted March 1 Great build! It reminds me a lot of the 10211 Grand Emporium. The fire escape adds visual interest. It's good to see it brickbuilt. I think the sand green provides more contrast than sand blue and fits more with the brick yellow ground floor and earth green accents. Keep on building! Quote
The Undo Posted April 6 Posted April 6 Love the look of the facade! Bookshop interior is awesome, and that chill area on the rooftop is also cool. Overall a great design! Quote
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