Brickthorpe town centre is well frequented. Restaurant, café and diner provides food and beverages. The large department store has special offers. Shoppers will find everything from toys to books in the city centre. The Palace Cinema shows the latest films and accommodation is available right next door in the hotel.
Everyone loves snow in Brickthorpe
January 10, 2021Another winter in Brickthorpe! After a long time it has finally snowed again and the small town has turned into a winter wonderland.
There has been a new addition to Candy Lane and the Christmas elves have been busy working with Santa to get everything ready on time and delivered just-in-time.
Behind their backs, a small group of Arctic explorers set out to collect data on the state of the ice. They were surprised by a surfacing submarine 90° North.
A coral reef
June 27, 2020We purchased some of the reefscape sets ages ago. The models were designed by Duncan Titmarsh and we came across them in 2015. Since then we had always dreamed of building our own little coral reef. Now was the time to do this.
The blank (blue) canvas
Building steps
The latest version of the reef
(maybe not the final one)
221B Baker Street, London
March 5, 2015221B Baker Street is home to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It took me a while to complete the building and the interior. The house has been built on a 16×32 stud plate and fit into the so-called “Cafe Corner Standard”.
THE ART OF THE BRICK – An exhibition in London
February 2, 2015In December 2014 we’ve been to a astonishing exhibition in London – THE ART OF THE BRICK by Nathan Sawaya. This exhibition is brilliant, breath-taking, simply fun and inspiring too. There are around 100 art sculptures created from more than a million LEGO® bricks. You can get more information about this exhibition and the artist on his website artofthebrick.co.uk.
Winter in Brickthorpe – again
January 29, 2015
There is another winter in Brickthorpe. This time with a new gingerbread house, some arctic research facilities and even some space for Mr. and Mrs. Santa.
Gingerbread House
January 29, 2015
This is our version of a gingerbread house. We were inspired by this one, which is a project on LEGO® ideas by Swan Dutchman. It fitted perfectly into the landscape we’ve built this winter / holiday season.
Arc de Triomphe – Paris (France)
June 9, 2014In “Brick City – LEGO® for grown ups” by Warren Elsmore we’ve discovered a brilliant building instruction for the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and we simply couldn’t resist. We’ve added the eternal flame on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. On more information about the Arc de Triomphe please look at wikipedia.
Rundetårn
June 9, 2014Rundetårn (Round Tower) is located in central Copenhagen, Denmark and was built by the danish king Christian IV as an astronomical observatory. It is most noted for its helical corridor leading to the top. We’ve been there a couple of years ago and the view was fantastic. You could see a photo of the Round Tower here on wikipedia.
Recently we’ve discovered the book “Brick City – LEGO® for grown ups” by Warren Elsmore and he used the LEGO® tooth piece to represent the windows of this tower. We thought it a wonderful idea and we’ve constructed the Round tower as Warren Elsmore has shown in his book.
Winter in Brickthorpe
December 31, 2013A winter scenery in Bricktorpe, this year with a snowboard event and some ice sculptures and lot of other winter activities.
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