lego houses

Anyone can build one good townhouse. The trouble starts when you build the fourth one next to it and the whole terrace begins to look like a photocopier jammed. Real rows feel dense because they share walls, share a rhythm and still argue with each other in small ways, and that balance is surprisingly hard…

Every Lego city ends up with the same problem eventually: you’ve built the town hall, the fire station and a row of shops, and now every minifigure in the place is sleeping on the pavement. Apartment blocks solve density, but they don’t solve character. A city needs detached homes, cottages with a bit of garden,…