Ohh, that's a cool idea. I would say stick it to the beam to add depth. Maybe they could mock up some scenes in LEGO, take pictures, and then print those out as stickers.
The bottom of the sky scraper should accommodate both train lines as a station, and then you can push the rest of up making it taller without making it repetitive
Given that the pillar is right in the middle of the city, I think it would be much cooler if a view tower is being built (similar to those in theme park) and motorized it with a mini cam mounted to it.
There are buildings all over the world that have weird knotches in buildings for obstacles as well as holes through them for trains and streets to pass through them. Sounds like a fun thing to do in lego as you build vertically
Love the new tower! I think wrapping the interior portion of the pillar with black contact paper would make it just look dark on the inside and provide a visual break from the white top/bottom of the exposed portion.
For the side with the electrical conduit I'd get rid of the middle windows. Use some grey masonry bricks in their place instead. It would be a nice design element and also hide the electrical. If you wanted to add aviation obstruction lighting on the top floor you could also run your wiring up that way. For the bottom level just make it a two story lobby. For the corner facing the train tracks use rounded corner pieces or google "lego corner angle" for some ideas. You should name the skyscraper "THE BEAM"! lol! The top floor could be the utility room and antennas.
I would suggest making the bottom of the pillar a lobby and it can stick out a little and the back where the train can be inset a little, which would make the design realistic. 18:25
You can always build a tapered bottom for you skyscraper. In modern architecture everything is possible, make it float above the train tracks, look at the rainier tower in seattle.
Have a great time snow boarding! Wishing you and your family a very, very Merry Christmas. The twins are so adorable, I hope they get spoiled by Santa. 😉 I don't build Lego, but I love to watch your creativity and joy as you build. Your city and "everything is awesome". That's coming from an old gal in the Okanagan, having a green/brown Christmas. No snow here, in the valley. Hopefully the mountains are getting enough for all you snowboarders and skiers out there! 🍁❄🎅
3 options. 1. Paint the pillar black. 2. Put stickers on the pillar. 3. Send it to the celling and make it a Lord Business Penthouse (get a little Lego Movie in the city).
What you should do is print interiors and stick/ tack them to the pillars, You could use actual lego stock images from various flats etc? Similar to sitcom tower style or just rooms.. just on the two outer face of the pillar..
I would look at making some commercial type space at the bottom of the tower. Like most towers now have a shop or something below it would integrate better with the rest of the stuff around.
Happy holidays, Jordan. Enjoy the snowboarding. For my birthday yesterday, I got the new natural history museum and the promos from the double vip before black Friday and also the last bit of money to get me to the Avengers Tower set sometime next year so that is now on my buy list which is existing.
Hi Bricksie, The Beam Tower is great. How about a pretend elevator door at ground level between the supports, then each level has a matching elevator door creating the illusion of interior of pillar and a walkway around the outside of each level, maybe even a "room" door on at least one other side of the pillar at each level to further that illusion. I am Bev Michael from Portland Oregon USA and I have been watching for two years. I love your whole family and that makes it all the more of a complete and wonderful program,,, I am a wanna be grandma at 75 yrs old.
Bricksie, that looks awesome. That pole just fades away perfectly and makes the city skyline wicked. I think I was the first to suggest this to you a long time ago. Thanks for the great content and your love for LEGO. have a nice holiday.
I would suggest looking at some towers where the bottom is concrete pillars at the height of 1.5 or 2 floors. Then the 2nd floor extends out. This would solve the train clearance issue, it would also allow you to build a "common area" underneath the tower with benches or bushes and stuff, and a door that transitions well with your boardwalk. And finally I suggest extending the ocean out along the same side (I'll call it the south (so your ocean is on the south side. That's another suggestion, determine which way is north/south for your city and display that somehow for the audience) so that the pillars can go into the ocean like a pier. Also I might also remove a level. It shouldn't be any taller, perhaps shorter. Establish what building you want to be the tallest in the city and stick with it. Nothing taller than that particular building.
I think you could have used part 26604 (Modified 1 x 1 with Studs on 2 Sides, Adjacent) for your corner issues. Also, I would have made a building where the windows were not large so you couldn't see the pillar. But a great idea nonetheless.
Tower looks nice to cover the support column. If that middle window of the flat side was a solid wall, you wouldn't see the conduit that runs along that side.
The tower looks good for the city but something should go above it to block the piller. Maybe the UP house with balloons, clouds, explosive cloud from a rocket, something.
This time difference thing is confusing, I am watching this whilst having breakfast Saturday 23rd Dec. Mery Christmas to you, José, Millie and Benjamin 🌞🤿 from Australia
Yo do the snowboarding vlog! I feelclike you and your lady would be an awesome bunch to go snowboarding with. Stay awesome buddy! You represent canada awesomly in the AFOL community!!
I haven’t tried the math yet but there’s a new piece from this year that’s a 1x1x2/3 snot piece with a round back, maybe those would work to lock the balcony in. Tho your solution does look good 👍🏻
I would actually make it bigger, offset towards the beach (maybe shorten the pier to be inline with the pedestrian crossing stripes). And making the column into a lift shaft. Solid brick walls with doors on every floor to access the accommodation. You could have the elevator doors exit onto a balcony leading to the front door.
For the side where the balconies meet you should use a 2x2 jumper and do potted plants on some of them to add color. Also for the taper use facet brick?
For the base of the skyscraper, I think you should consider something similar to the base of the Citigroup Building in New York City, where I used to work in. There’s a church at one of the corners of the building that couldn’t be moved, similar to the corner contact issue with the train. The solution they came up with was to sit the building on ‘stilts’ to create the clearance. I think you could get pretty creative with something like that.
For your rails, you in the corner where the rails come together, you could replace the 1x2 snot brick with two stacked 1x1 snot bricks with the snot attachment on two sides (part 26604) then flip the other railing to attach like you have the first.
For the base you should make it smaller than the floors you created and make it look like the pillar is the central core of the tower (where the elevators/stairs are). This gives you the clearance for the trains (at least the lower one).
for the railings I'd use 1x1 modified bricks with adjacent studs. Then you could connect both rails to the same corner and use the 1x1 technic bricks on the other 2 corners
Bricksie, I got promoted today and I would like to sincerely thanks for everything, to be my main source of happiness and as my energy recharge for the most part, so I could keep going
I am absolutely loving this. Once I saw this I want to do my basement pillar. My pillar is dry walled and is bigger. Could you share the Lego part numbers so I could order them. Been long fan of Lego but I like instructions. I love your design and I have lots of city Lego for characters. One thing I will add is penthouse with an over hang clear pool in the penthouse. Check out the mechanic 2
It’s a great start! Actually 90% done! What if you took inspiration from the Jenga building in NYC and have the floors different? I think you can just rotate some floors. The lobby can have big pillars with street clearance like the new Chase skyscraper in NYC. There also already other buildings like that in NYC
Maybe you could use the rounded windows for the bottom floor. Tower is looking good though. I think you could build it to the top of the pillar. Having it exposed at the top looks a little out of place.
i dont remember what they are called but i just used some in a valentine love bird set. it has like a 1x2 pillar with the studs on the front and side. if you put a piece like that on the outside corner and angle them off of that and then use the tecnic brick with the hole on the opposite sides then you could probably have it locked in on both sides
I'm now at 19 minutes in the video. Here in the Netherlands we have multiple tall buildings with the base in water. Like a very big pond. You might would like to consider this. Enjoy
i think you should built the tower to the top, in my opinion it would look weird to see the piller sticking out of the tower i think that would take away the point of the skyscaper a bit
This is so awesome you're making use of the pillar. I would never think at all that you'd do that but you pulled it off. Will this come at the sacrifice of having no interior details to the skyscraper since it's wrapping around the pillar?
You could always print out fake interiors and put them behind the glass. Might be a cool place to throw in some Easter eggs and stories.
Ohh, that's a cool idea. I would say stick it to the beam to add depth. Maybe they could mock up some scenes in LEGO, take pictures, and then print those out as stickers.
That was my first thought
I was just going to recommend this. 👌 if ya do... be sure to print elevator doors for the lobby!! 😉
Do it do it!,
That's a great idea ❤
The bottom of the sky scraper should accommodate both train lines as a station, and then you can push the rest of up making it taller without making it repetitive
Given that the pillar is right in the middle of the city, I think it would be much cooler if a view tower is being built (similar to those in theme park) and motorized it with a mini cam mounted to it.
Like the Sears Tower or Seoul Tower 👏🏻
There are buildings all over the world that have weird knotches in buildings for obstacles as well as holes through them for trains and streets to pass through them. Sounds like a fun thing to do in lego as you build vertically
Love the new tower! I think wrapping the interior portion of the pillar with black contact paper would make it just look dark on the inside and provide a visual break from the white top/bottom of the exposed portion.
For the side with the electrical conduit I'd get rid of the middle windows. Use some grey masonry bricks in their place instead. It would be a nice design element and also hide the electrical. If you wanted to add aviation obstruction lighting on the top floor you could also run your wiring up that way. For the bottom level just make it a two story lobby. For the corner facing the train tracks use rounded corner pieces or google "lego corner angle" for some ideas. You should name the skyscraper "THE BEAM"! lol! The top floor could be the utility room and antennas.
Snowboarding is awesome man, hope you have a good time.
You should change up the design a bit, and maybe build a small train station for the elevated rail. So you have a bigger build at the botom.
You are cool 😎
man those glass railing pieces look great
I would suggest making the bottom of the pillar a lobby and it can stick out a little and the back where the train can be inset a little, which would make the design realistic. 18:25
You could print photos of internal details to put on the pillar! Looks good so far!
Bricksie- For some reason, I REALLY like the skyscraper around the beam. Can't wait to see the minifig drama.
Have fun snowboarding! And Merry Christmas.
You can always build a tapered bottom for you skyscraper. In modern architecture everything is possible, make it float above the train tracks, look at the rainier tower in seattle.
Have a great time snow boarding! Wishing you and your family a very, very Merry Christmas. The twins are so adorable, I hope they get spoiled by Santa. 😉 I don't build Lego, but I love to watch your creativity and joy as you build. Your city and "everything is awesome". That's coming from an old gal in the Okanagan, having a green/brown Christmas. No snow here, in the valley. Hopefully the mountains are getting enough for all you snowboarders and skiers out there! 🍁❄🎅
Since the tower is so close to the water, add a heap of seagulls on the roof and upper balconies for realism. Have a fun and safe snowboarding trip!
Actually turned out pretty well. Unless you move train, it looks fine. The base can be stabilized, just more pillars or build a brick built base.
3 options. 1. Paint the pillar black. 2. Put stickers on the pillar. 3. Send it to the celling and make it a Lord Business Penthouse (get a little Lego Movie in the city).
awesome video jordan the skyscraper looks amazing great job
Nice!
A block of flats/apartments should have room on the ground floor for garbage and or bike storage. Have a good Christmas Jordan and family ✌️♥️👍🎄
What you should do is print interiors and stick/ tack them to the pillars,
You could use actual lego stock images from various flats etc? Similar to sitcom tower style or just rooms.. just on the two outer face of the pillar..
I would look at making some commercial type space at the bottom of the tower. Like most towers now have a shop or something below it would integrate better with the rest of the stuff around.
I appreciate you are Canadian and say the measurements in CM. Metric for the win !
Great tower. Happy Xmas
This is actually a really smart idea!
I love it!!! I've been waiting on this for months man. Thank you. No more ugly white pillar.
Happy holidays, Jordan. Enjoy the snowboarding. For my birthday yesterday, I got the new natural history museum and the promos from the double vip before black Friday and also the last bit of money to get me to the Avengers Tower set sometime next year so that is now on my buy list which is existing.
Hi Bricksie, The Beam Tower is great. How about a pretend elevator door at ground level between the supports, then each level has a matching elevator door creating the illusion of interior of pillar and a walkway around the outside of each level, maybe even a "room" door on at least one other side of the pillar at each level to further that illusion. I am Bev Michael from Portland Oregon USA and I have been watching for two years. I love your whole family and that makes it all the more of a complete and wonderful program,,, I am a wanna be grandma at 75 yrs old.
Bricksie, that looks awesome. That pole just fades away perfectly and makes the city skyline wicked. I think I was the first to suggest this to you a long time ago. Thanks for the great content and your love for LEGO. have a nice holiday.
I was the first to suggest it way back!
Jordan looks great 👍👍
Merry Christmas to you all.
I would suggest looking at some towers where the bottom is concrete pillars at the height of 1.5 or 2 floors. Then the 2nd floor extends out. This would solve the train clearance issue, it would also allow you to build a "common area" underneath the tower with benches or bushes and stuff, and a door that transitions well with your boardwalk. And finally I suggest extending the ocean out along the same side (I'll call it the south (so your ocean is on the south side. That's another suggestion, determine which way is north/south for your city and display that somehow for the audience) so that the pillars can go into the ocean like a pier. Also I might also remove a level. It shouldn't be any taller, perhaps shorter. Establish what building you want to be the tallest in the city and stick with it. Nothing taller than that particular building.
I think you could have used part 26604 (Modified 1 x 1 with Studs on 2 Sides, Adjacent) for your corner issues.
Also, I would have made a building where the windows were not large so you couldn't see the pillar. But a great idea nonetheless.
To make the corner of the building on the bottom floor near the rails, you can use some facet bricks or a 45 degree door frame.
Looks great! Good way to hide that pillar!
Have a great Holiday!
Tower looks nice to cover the support column. If that middle window of the flat side was a solid wall, you wouldn't see the conduit that runs along that side.
Love it!!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!!! 🎄🤶🎅🦌🎉🥳 🇺🇲
You could always integrate the base with the elevated tracks and create a tunnel underneath.
That looks awesome
Jordan … an easy solution for the space restraints on the base of the skyscraper can be resolved if you use 601 Lexington in NYC for inspiration! 🤗
The tower looks good for the city but something should go above it to block the piller. Maybe the UP house with balloons, clouds, explosive cloud from a rocket, something.
Great video and Merry Christmas to all of your family!
Honestly, the best addition to the city to date!
Great idea
This time difference thing is confusing, I am watching this whilst having breakfast Saturday 23rd Dec.
Mery Christmas to you, José, Millie and Benjamin 🌞🤿 from Australia
Yo do the snowboarding vlog! I feelclike you and your lady would be an awesome bunch to go snowboarding with.
Stay awesome buddy! You represent canada awesomly in the AFOL community!!
I haven’t tried the math yet but there’s a new piece from this year that’s a 1x1x2/3 snot piece with a round back, maybe those would work to lock the balcony in. Tho your solution does look good 👍🏻
Excellent suggestion. It's part 3386 and it should work. Such a useful piece.
Or he could use two 1x1 brick modified with two studs on adjacent sides? 26604@@doncourter7164
Down the road you could order that new Trans Black Window Glass and change it out if you want to make the white pillar less visible
I would actually make it bigger, offset towards the beach (maybe shorten the pier to be inline with the pedestrian crossing stripes). And making the column into a lift shaft. Solid brick walls with doors on every floor to access the accommodation. You could have the elevator doors exit onto a balcony leading to the front door.
For the side where the balconies meet you should use a 2x2 jumper and do potted plants on some of them to add color. Also for the taper use facet brick?
13:14 you could use some acrylic glue adhesive and rub it into the glass panels to fix the scratches from the windows
For the base of the skyscraper, I think you should consider something similar to the base of the Citigroup Building in New York City, where I used to work in. There’s a church at one of the corners of the building that couldn’t be moved, similar to the corner contact issue with the train. The solution they came up with was to sit the building on ‘stilts’ to create the clearance. I think you could get pretty creative with something like that.
For your rails, you in the corner where the rails come together, you could replace the 1x2 snot brick with two stacked 1x1 snot bricks with the snot attachment on two sides (part 26604) then flip the other railing to attach like you have the first.
this would then be one plate too tall. some combination of modified 1x1 snot plates could work tho
@mauritsvanderlee7092 you could do a regular 1x1 with the modified 1x1 with 2 stud connections on top. That should work.
Your creativity is truly amazing!
I also want to have a fantastic space like this someday. *^^*♥♥
For the base you should make it smaller than the floors you created and make it look like the pillar is the central core of the tower (where the elevators/stairs are).
This gives you the clearance for the trains (at least the lower one).
Have some big panels on their side at an angle for train clearance on the bottom floors.
unique and valuable mini figure tower of power! mini figures on the balconies. That's what you need for that tower. tower of power. go ;-)
Merry Christmas bricksie and Mrs Bricksie
for the railings I'd use 1x1 modified bricks with adjacent studs. Then you could connect both rails to the same corner and use the 1x1 technic bricks on the other 2 corners
regarding the base of the building, how about making a triangle? the slope side facing towards the train clearance side of course
You could literally turn that pillar into a giant Lego tree, would be absolutely magnificent
It looks great. You could also consider to counter leaver as you go up to give it a modern look.
Merry Christmas to you and the family from the 🇬🇧
Merry Christmas to you and your lovely family!
Such a cool idea
Looks good I like the colors you chose👍
Bricksie, I got promoted today and I would like to sincerely thanks for everything, to be my main source of happiness and as my energy recharge for the most part, so I could keep going
Merry Christmas.
You could use the angled bricks to give the wall a forty five degree angle for more clearance space.
Love your idea's. I get so many great inspirations from you. Merry Christmas to you and the family.
I think an bigger observation platform at top would look good. You could also add 1 row of brick on each floor to make it more spread out.
You should make the bottom part that's where the train comes past, make it look like the train crashed it. I think that would look cool.
I am absolutely loving this. Once I saw this I want to do my basement pillar. My pillar is dry walled and is bigger. Could you share the Lego part numbers so I could order them. Been long fan of Lego but I like instructions. I love your design and I have lots of city Lego for characters. One thing I will add is penthouse with an over hang clear pool in the penthouse. Check out the mechanic 2
I think it would look great all the way to the ceiling.
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The brackets that came in the Orient Express set that are used to hold the windows might work for holding the rail.
It’s a great start! Actually 90% done! What if you took inspiration from the Jenga building in NYC and have the floors different? I think you can just rotate some floors. The lobby can have big pillars with street clearance like the new Chase skyscraper in NYC. There also already other buildings like that in NYC
The ground floor should have that 45° angle to help with the train clearance
Maybe you could use the rounded windows for the bottom floor. Tower is looking good though. I think you could build it to the top of the pillar. Having it exposed at the top looks a little out of place.
Would be cool to do an external elevator and make a high viewpoint to the city for the minifigures!
You could say the gap next to the pillar is due to a fault line running beneath the city.
Dude I wanna snow board with you so bad!
Merry Christmas man
i dont remember what they are called but i just used some in a valentine love bird set. it has like a 1x2 pillar with the studs on the front and side. if you put a piece like that on the outside corner and angle them off of that and then use the tecnic brick with the hole on the opposite sides then you could probably have it locked in on both sides
I think the beam building should be more of an observation tower than a skyscraper.
I think you should ad something else to the top of the skyscraper. Something to really draw attention. Like the eye of Sauron
Deffo looks tall enough but the base maybe needs work & maybe a penhouse with banckony just to level it off..?
I'm now at 19 minutes in the video. Here in the Netherlands we have multiple tall buildings with the base in water. Like a very big pond. You might would like to consider this.
Enjoy
Make the bottom a tram station under the building and make the tram go through the lower floors
I think the height of the building is great.
i think you should built the tower to the top, in my opinion it would look weird to see the piller sticking out of the tower i think that would take away the point of the skyscaper a bit
This is so awesome you're making use of the pillar. I would never think at all that you'd do that but you pulled it off. Will this come at the sacrifice of having no interior details to the skyscraper since it's wrapping around the pillar?
that is very clever.
I think a double height, ground floor with full height glazing would be a good ideal, giving it realism?
Bricksie the pillar could be a pretend lift if you put doors at each level
How about pilings? Pilings that go up over the tracks and start the building elevated with less restrictions?
You should put a fire escape along one side of the skyscraper