KevinFromTexas
31 March 2001, 08:37 PM
This is a long post, may take a while to load, but it's worth it.
About 1 and half ago I had shown my grandma another one of my wacky creations out of Legos. She recomended that I build a model of a real building. So going on that I did. And the first model I did was of the Sears Tower which is the tallest building in the US. My model of it has 400+ pieces and is 2 feet tall. Since then I've built 200 more models of real buildings from all over the world including about 60 from Texas. I'm not even close to doing everything I want to. Right now I'm actually building 70 models, and there's another 400 or so that I want to do. All together their height is 146 feet tall, and 4,500 bricks tall. I have over 85,000 Legos, I've tinkered with them since I was 5 years old and I've just stuck with them.
Does this look familar? It's Fort Worth's Burnett Plaza.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=42841865&Sequence=0&res=high
I don't know if any of you are familar with this, but this is a model I did of the proposed Trango Tower for Denver. This building is supposed to be 1,050 feet tall, (in real life). My model is 16 inches tall. The top is supposed to be yellow, but I didn't have the pieces, so I did it in red until I do.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=34910571&Sequence=0&res=high
A few months back I had taken all my models off their shelves to lower them so I could build taller buildings. I had to because a few would have been scraping the cieling in my room. So when I took them down and had 200+ models all together I thought it would be a good time for a picture. In this picture, they're sitting on what I call my "Lego Table". In this picture at the far right of the pic, the tall black building is the Sears Tower, the former world's tallest from Chicago. The skinny little white tower to it's left is the Washington Monument. At the left side of the pic are the two grey World Trade Center Towers from NYC. The two of them combined have 700 pieces and weigh about 2 pounds. The tall blue tower infront of them is the unbuilt One South Wacker which was a 1,275 foot building proposed for Chicago back around 1990. Now if you'll notice, there's a tall red tower infront of One North Wacker, that's the Key Tower from Cleveland, and their tallest at 950 feet. Now, behind the Key Tower is the Renaissance Tower from Dallas. See it? The tall white skinny tower standing there, that's the CN Tower from Toronto, Canada. This is the world's tallest observation tower at 1,815 feet. My model is 27 inches tall. If you look in the bottom left of the pic, there's a little tower sticking up there, that's the Calgary Tower from Calgary, Canada, and behind and above it is the Chase Tower from Houston, Texas' tallest building.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=20190629&Sequence=0&res=high
In this "aerial" of my models while they were on the Lego Table. Look in the bottom right corner of this pic, that large cross shaped building there is my model of the Texas State Capitol. Look directly behind the dome of the capitol and you'll notice a "L" shaped building, that's my model of the Transport Life Building from Fort Worth. Next to it on the right is the Alico Building from Waco which at one time was the state's tallest office building. Of course, in the center of the pic the two huge grey towers are the World Trade Center Towers from New York City, with the blue One North Wacker, now if you'll look kind of below the World Trade Center Towers, there's a "short" white building there, that's Austin's tallest building the One American Center. This picture is kind of humbling to say the least. Also if you'll look to the right and behind, actually caddy corner, you'll see the Renaissance Tower from Dallas. Behind it is the yellow Chase Texas Tower, "aka the key hole building" also from Dallas. To the right of the Renaissance Tower is the Woolworth Building a great old gem from New York. Now if you'll look over at the far left side of the picture about midway down, you'll see two very large and tall buildings totally dwarfing everything else. These are the Empire State Building with the Crysler Building at it's right. See the Texas State Capitol? In the bottom right, see the skinny tower next to it on the left? It has a round top. That's the Calgary Tower again, below it is the San Jacinto Tower from Dallas, the red one. And if you look above the Calgary Tower, you'll see two tall buildings. The one on the left is blue, that's the Williams Tower, formally known as the Transco Tower, it's the 3rd tallest in Houston, and 4th tallest in Texas. Next to it, the yellow building there, that's the 1,002 foot Chase Tower from Houston the tallest building in Texas. If you'll look just above and to the left of the left tower of the World Trade Center Tower, you'll see a black building with tall antennas. That's the John Hancock Center from Chicago. This is the tallest building in the world with residential.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=34910907&Sequence=0&res=high
This one is looking up at the top shelf, with about half the models, still there's around 60 of them here in this picture. The tall black tower on the left is the Sears Tower. Towards the right of the picture there's the Empire State Building and Crysler Building infront of it. If you'll look, there's a tall red building at the right side of the picture, kind of running off the pic, that's the 70 Pine Street from NYC, the white building next to it, with the black object on the roof, is the Landmark Tower from Fort Worth. The little yellow building here on the front row the yellow building on the left side, that's the Blackstone Hotel also from Fort Worth.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=34910782&Sequence=0&res=high
The buildings in this picture, are not models of real buildings. These are my own design, they are of course probably influenced by great buildings in real life, but these are mine. The tallest one in the background there, the tall white tower, that one is my tallest one with 140 bricks tall, and 53 inches tall. It has about 700 to 800 pieces. You can't see in this picture, but the top of the building is about 5 inches from the cieling fan in my room. These sit on a 30 inch tall table, the tallest one is almost 7 feet tall from the floor to top of the antenna counting the height of the table it sits on. See my NEW YORK poster over my bed?
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=34910332&Sequence=0&res=high
This is a tower crane I did. I actually got the idea off the internet from someone who had a similar crane. It's 75 bricks tall about 2 feet tall. If you'll notice there's a small truck hanging from the boom.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=34911048&Sequence=0&res=high
This is a picture I took from my bed, (I have a bunk bed, I share a room with my brother), anyway, this is looking down to the floor from about 7 feet up. The cieling is about another 10 inches higher. This is looking down over my buildings, can you see the floor WAY down there? I did turn off the cieling fan by the way. The shorter buildings in the background are my skyscraper models, back when I had lowered the shelf.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=34910478&Sequence=0&res=high
A few more of my buildings standing in the window. When the sun is at certain angles it casts these wicked cool shadows across the table.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=34910537&Sequence=0&res=high
So what do ya think? Sorry if this takes too long to load.
About 1 and half ago I had shown my grandma another one of my wacky creations out of Legos. She recomended that I build a model of a real building. So going on that I did. And the first model I did was of the Sears Tower which is the tallest building in the US. My model of it has 400+ pieces and is 2 feet tall. Since then I've built 200 more models of real buildings from all over the world including about 60 from Texas. I'm not even close to doing everything I want to. Right now I'm actually building 70 models, and there's another 400 or so that I want to do. All together their height is 146 feet tall, and 4,500 bricks tall. I have over 85,000 Legos, I've tinkered with them since I was 5 years old and I've just stuck with them.
Does this look familar? It's Fort Worth's Burnett Plaza.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=42841865&Sequence=0&res=high
I don't know if any of you are familar with this, but this is a model I did of the proposed Trango Tower for Denver. This building is supposed to be 1,050 feet tall, (in real life). My model is 16 inches tall. The top is supposed to be yellow, but I didn't have the pieces, so I did it in red until I do.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=34910571&Sequence=0&res=high
A few months back I had taken all my models off their shelves to lower them so I could build taller buildings. I had to because a few would have been scraping the cieling in my room. So when I took them down and had 200+ models all together I thought it would be a good time for a picture. In this picture, they're sitting on what I call my "Lego Table". In this picture at the far right of the pic, the tall black building is the Sears Tower, the former world's tallest from Chicago. The skinny little white tower to it's left is the Washington Monument. At the left side of the pic are the two grey World Trade Center Towers from NYC. The two of them combined have 700 pieces and weigh about 2 pounds. The tall blue tower infront of them is the unbuilt One South Wacker which was a 1,275 foot building proposed for Chicago back around 1990. Now if you'll notice, there's a tall red tower infront of One North Wacker, that's the Key Tower from Cleveland, and their tallest at 950 feet. Now, behind the Key Tower is the Renaissance Tower from Dallas. See it? The tall white skinny tower standing there, that's the CN Tower from Toronto, Canada. This is the world's tallest observation tower at 1,815 feet. My model is 27 inches tall. If you look in the bottom left of the pic, there's a little tower sticking up there, that's the Calgary Tower from Calgary, Canada, and behind and above it is the Chase Tower from Houston, Texas' tallest building.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=20190629&Sequence=0&res=high
In this "aerial" of my models while they were on the Lego Table. Look in the bottom right corner of this pic, that large cross shaped building there is my model of the Texas State Capitol. Look directly behind the dome of the capitol and you'll notice a "L" shaped building, that's my model of the Transport Life Building from Fort Worth. Next to it on the right is the Alico Building from Waco which at one time was the state's tallest office building. Of course, in the center of the pic the two huge grey towers are the World Trade Center Towers from New York City, with the blue One North Wacker, now if you'll look kind of below the World Trade Center Towers, there's a "short" white building there, that's Austin's tallest building the One American Center. This picture is kind of humbling to say the least. Also if you'll look to the right and behind, actually caddy corner, you'll see the Renaissance Tower from Dallas. Behind it is the yellow Chase Texas Tower, "aka the key hole building" also from Dallas. To the right of the Renaissance Tower is the Woolworth Building a great old gem from New York. Now if you'll look over at the far left side of the picture about midway down, you'll see two very large and tall buildings totally dwarfing everything else. These are the Empire State Building with the Crysler Building at it's right. See the Texas State Capitol? In the bottom right, see the skinny tower next to it on the left? It has a round top. That's the Calgary Tower again, below it is the San Jacinto Tower from Dallas, the red one. And if you look above the Calgary Tower, you'll see two tall buildings. The one on the left is blue, that's the Williams Tower, formally known as the Transco Tower, it's the 3rd tallest in Houston, and 4th tallest in Texas. Next to it, the yellow building there, that's the 1,002 foot Chase Tower from Houston the tallest building in Texas. If you'll look just above and to the left of the left tower of the World Trade Center Tower, you'll see a black building with tall antennas. That's the John Hancock Center from Chicago. This is the tallest building in the world with residential.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=34910907&Sequence=0&res=high
This one is looking up at the top shelf, with about half the models, still there's around 60 of them here in this picture. The tall black tower on the left is the Sears Tower. Towards the right of the picture there's the Empire State Building and Crysler Building infront of it. If you'll look, there's a tall red building at the right side of the picture, kind of running off the pic, that's the 70 Pine Street from NYC, the white building next to it, with the black object on the roof, is the Landmark Tower from Fort Worth. The little yellow building here on the front row the yellow building on the left side, that's the Blackstone Hotel also from Fort Worth.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=34910782&Sequence=0&res=high
The buildings in this picture, are not models of real buildings. These are my own design, they are of course probably influenced by great buildings in real life, but these are mine. The tallest one in the background there, the tall white tower, that one is my tallest one with 140 bricks tall, and 53 inches tall. It has about 700 to 800 pieces. You can't see in this picture, but the top of the building is about 5 inches from the cieling fan in my room. These sit on a 30 inch tall table, the tallest one is almost 7 feet tall from the floor to top of the antenna counting the height of the table it sits on. See my NEW YORK poster over my bed?
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=34910332&Sequence=0&res=high
This is a tower crane I did. I actually got the idea off the internet from someone who had a similar crane. It's 75 bricks tall about 2 feet tall. If you'll notice there's a small truck hanging from the boom.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=34911048&Sequence=0&res=high
This is a picture I took from my bed, (I have a bunk bed, I share a room with my brother), anyway, this is looking down to the floor from about 7 feet up. The cieling is about another 10 inches higher. This is looking down over my buildings, can you see the floor WAY down there? I did turn off the cieling fan by the way. The shorter buildings in the background are my skyscraper models, back when I had lowered the shelf.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=34910478&Sequence=0&res=high
A few more of my buildings standing in the window. When the sun is at certain angles it casts these wicked cool shadows across the table.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=697922&a=10345805&p=34910537&Sequence=0&res=high
So what do ya think? Sorry if this takes too long to load.