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At Groningen, The Netherlands, in the 1880’s a spacious building was erected to
house the local exchange market for grains. The building was soon to be known as
‘De Korenbeurs’ (The Grain Exchange). As grain commerce gradually disappeared
from the building, it has housed several other acivities over the years. These
days, a supermarket is located in the building, which is still called De
Korenbeurs.
This model was displayed at LEGOWORLD 2003 and is my current entry to the
International System Creativity Contest. To see additional pictures and
explanations on my own web site, please visit
LEGO On My Mind and select Models:
Market building from the menu.
Still more pictures (e.g. of the supermarket interior and a mechanism for moving
shopping carts around) will be added later.
Enjoy the picture tour around and through the building.
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| Oh my... At first I thought, nice model but why did someone bother to post a non-lego model? Then I read it was a LEGO model. Then I watched it in detail and saw the small studs here and there, could *that* be made of bricks? I have still to realize (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.town)
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| Hi Eric, This is one of the best moc's that I have seen in a long time. I appreciate the small architectural details of the building. My favorites include the complicated roof forms, flat arches of bricks above the windows, the Corinthian capitals (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| In lugnet.general, Eric Brok wrote: (snip) I got a chance to see this model up close and in person at LEGOWORLD. While the presentation on the site is great (it's another one of Eric's gems, he really does do great model presentations!) no amount of (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) WOW. I was wondering what the photograph of a building was doing in your posting. My jaw dropped when I realized that it was built out of LEGO! There are too many incredible details for me to list. I can only wish to build with that amount of (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| Eric Brok wrote in message ... (...) erected to (...) known as Erik, that's superb! I especially like the color variation in the wall bricks that you've used.... and the built-up doors... and the plates-on-edge above the window and door openings... (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.town)
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| I just added some more descriptions, pictures and even a few (low-quality) movies about the construction of this model, in particular about the optical trick to combine two interiors and about the mechanism to drive the shopping carts. To see these (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) One word: MAGNIFICANT! Eric, you've done a great job! This model is so accurate, so close to reality I really felt off my chair! The exterior is very detailed. I have to show this to my brother who builds a large Amsterdam scenery with (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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