Lego skyscrapers3/17/2024 ![]() As time passed by the project came back to me every now and then, but lots of other stuff kept getting in the way like moving, jobs, marriages. And I had just planned on building the two main towers! So needless to say I put the project on hold. However at that time I was still in college without a whole lot of money and even though I have a lot of Lego's from my childhood it was still going to cost me over $1000 because of all the specialized parts needed. After it was destroyed, I wanted something to commemorate it and I thought Spencer's Lego model fit the bill quite nicely. I have always had a peripheral interest in skyscrapers and the WTC was one of my favorites. Spencer first came to my attention back in 2001 when he built his original World Trade Center site after September 11th. I am normally not a copycat, but his models look so good I don't believe they can be improved upon. I swear every time he creates something new, I want to build it myself. After a very long time without any updates this was an awesome way to showcase some of his newest creations. ![]() He unveiled one creation per night for five nights in a row, culminating in the awesome One World Trade Center from the new WTC site in New York. Last week Spencer started what I hope will be an ongoing tradition: Skyscraper week. You can check out many of his designs on his MOCPage. ![]() His designs are always very clean and often don't even look like they are constructed out of Lego. The irony of this approach is the model usually ends up looking super accurate anyway. His claim to fame is that he doesn't go for super accurate designs, he more or less focuses on a "mind's eye" approach so that when you see the model it is instantly recognizable and looks very much like the real thing. Spencer takes real life skyscrapers and re-imagines them in Lego form with both correct scale and colorization. One of my favorite brick artists and the source of much of my inspiration is a man named Spencer Rezkalla you may have seen me refer to him in some of my previous posts. In the Lego community, AFOLs (Adult Fans of Lego) sometimes refer to themselves as Brick-Artists.
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