See:

It’s a nice little Lego shipping cabin! It’s so bizarre that the design concept is in Lego. Although, not being an architect myself, maybe this is a popular software, or concept idea? I wouldn’t know for sure I suppose. In any case, I was enthralled by the little modern Lego designs. I especially like the Lego Flw Container House – which you can see if you click here and scroll all the way down.

To see other Lego structures, and many more cool structures visit Zigloo.

[Image via Zigloo]

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Zigloo Lego Designs

Best posts of June 2007:

The Teenage Dream Pad: Oh the spectacular teen built treehouse. My favorite comment ever was on this post, which is why it earns a spot here.

Q&A With Architect Bart Prince & (part two): Love how nice Bart is, love his houses, what’s left to say?

And We Have A Winner!: This was a totally random follow up post to another post, but it features the coolest ever Lego church. I think I like this post so much, because before I researched and wrote it, I had no clue that there was this whole subculture of pro Lego building folks out there. Crazy.

Do You Ever Just Feel Like…: Seriously what could be better than the Livio De Marchi – books and architecture smashed together. If you added some coffee and chocolate, I’d be happy forever.

What was your favorite? Actually I know your favorite – everyone’s favorite is the teenage dream pad. It scores big with traffic, big with reader, big on social networking sites. Everyone loves that darn post. If you say some other post, I may not believe you. But feel free to try.

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The Best of Offbeat Homes: June 2007

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 I should have remembered that. Why the heck do you think I write instead of build offbeat sugar houses.

Long story short; he really likes all the past Lego posts and is always building his own Lego structures that he thinks should be posted here and I turn them down. I am so a nice mama, I’m just waiting for the right house. Well he got me.

Today he built a typical Lego house. The house itself is not super unique and it’s tiny compared to other houses he’s built.

But (and here’s how he got me) it’s sustainable! 

Cedar’s offbeat (green) house:

Here’s the front:

He told me he made it small because of needing smaller footprints (Go Cedar) and that the grass is painted not really grass to save water. Did he use eco-paint? I don’t know.
And another view:

His best green living plan; the wind power. We recently watched a show on wind energy and we talk about it a lot. Although I’ve never technically seen a red turbine and it’s sort of in weird proximity to the house; you gotta give the boy props.

What’s not green about this house? Well, the massive television antenna — we don’t have a big TV and we don’t have a big TV antenna sticking up off our house but a TV that does have that big an antenna must be attached to a suck all the energy up TV.

This guy lives here. I don’t know if wicked knights are sustainable or not. But here’s what Cedar says, “He’s sitting on a pile of leaves, watching the sun set.”

Well, a wicked knight with gentle feelings — too cute.

Is there a deal behind this post. Two in fact:

1. If you asked Cedar to define the word “sustainable living” he would look at you rather blank faced I suspect. But that doesn’t mean kids can’t understand concepts — the words come in time but get your kids on board early with green living and they will own it for life.
2. I’ve been wanting to do an Offbeat kid structure post for a while now. If you have a kid who is under 18 years of age who has built something offbeat send me the photo and I’ll work it into a post. (Or two if all of you have remarkably talented children). Have they built a structure with blocks, mashed potatoes, paper? Send it in. You can see my email in the sidebar and I know that some of you have cool offbeat kids so send those pictures in with a little project info and hopefully we can get a nice Offbeat kids post up at some point in the near future.

Don’t forget to check out Home & Dining’s 300 tips for fabulous home living!

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Got Offbeat Architect Kids?

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 entirely out of Lego’s. if you look closely you can see the tiny bricks. This is the coolest thing ever. Take a look at these pictures:

In this one you can clearly see the bricks.

And an indoor view…

Amy Hughes, the woman who built this Lego church titled it the Abston Church of Christ and dedicated it to her cat (who died the same day she finished building) so the whole thing is a little quirky — but there’s no doubt that she is amazingly talented. The website she has for this is the most fun ever. You have to check it out. She has the most amusing Q&A I’ve ever seen with questions related to why she named the little people in the church and if the Lego people talk to her (they don’t, whew).

Can you believe the detail? Simply amazing.

Visit Hughes website for more information and many more pictures (including a whole pictorial of the cat inside the church)… Just don’t get too sucked in. I found myself thinking what other neat Lego structures might be out there after visiting her site. So I went to a few sites for ‘adult Lego builders’ and there is this whole crazy Lego adult world that I never knew existed. I knew there were cool Lego structures because I just recently took my son to Brickfest 2007 (I think it was called) in Portland, Oregon — and it was amazing.

But I never knew that there were whole websites devoted to finding that one special blue #43 piece to complete a design. I could feel the Lego world sucking me in because really wouldn’t it be fun to build something this intricate. But my plate is full so I clicked out. I think I’ll stick to building tiny castles with my six year old and leave stuff like this to the pros.

What about you? Ever built something amazing with Lego blocks?

[Pictures via: Amy Hughes site, and North Shore Magazine]

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And We Have A Winner!