At first I was a little confused by Zigloo. I couldn’t quite figure out what the site was up to. Now I’m pretty sure that it’s a real architect site, headed up by Keith Dewey. There are some impressive designs happening at Zigloo, but what drew me to the site was the Lego work, which is likely what confused me in the first place; guess I figured that the site belonged to one of those Lego geniuses we sometimes see here.
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It’s a nice little Lego shipping cabin! It’s so bizarre that the design concept is in Lego. Although, not being …read more

It’s my year anniversary week here at Offbeat, so we’ll be looking back at my top four favorite posts from each of the last 12 months. Starting with June of course. I limited myself to only four posts, so we’ll see if I can pull it off. Also, keep in mind, these are my favorite posts, readers often like posts that totally perplex me, better than say the ones I think people will like. But we’ll discuss that later this week…
Best posts of June 2007:
The Teenage Dream Pad: Oh the spectacular teen built treehouse. My favorite comment ever was …read more

I write for a living so me and my six year old son Cedar can hang out but does that impress Cedar. In a word, no.
He could care less what I do but he loves Offbeat, he likes the houses and the furniture; he really wants an extravagant treehouse I can’t possible afford.
Him and I have been working on a rather insane sugar cube home because he wants a house that he made posted on this blog. We are having major sugar issues that involve us adding paint to the sugar rather unsuccessfully. I know, cubes disintegrate in liquid! Or …read more

Well, a very close winner. Paticus thinks that both homes are made out of Lego blocks and he is close by golly (see below). We had some great guesses for yesterday’s game. And now let’s find out what the structures actually have in common.

This home recently featured in North Shore Magazine, is owned by John and Lynn McKinven and has been dubbed the “Lego House” by neighborhood kids. I think the name fits. Don’t you? Even the little bushes around the home are pointed much like a Lego tree.

Now this structure, well technically, this church is as Paticus guessed made …read more