Trick or Treat: Venture Through Mike Doyle’s Seriously Detailed LEGO Haunted Houses


It’s almost Halloween, and the more intrepid architects amongst us might be preparing their scariest costumes to terrorize and delight the local neighborhood. However, for those too scared to venture out over the next few nights, we suggest putting your model-making skills to good use — and LEGO artist Mike Doyle is just the man to provide some spooky inspiration. Doyle uses LEGO in weird and wonderful ways to create eerily beautiful Victorian Houses that stray far from the pristine, pixelated structures we have come to expect from those iconic plastic bricks. The artist composes scenes in a fragmented style with extraordinary attention to detail, culminating in structures that look uncannily like the ruined mansions frequented by urban explorers in the real world. “To my eyes, patterns of decay find a more pleasing path than an untouched object,” explains Doyle. “A roof collapsed by the weight of snow, side shingles ripped by the force of winds, substructures rotting, insects and weather gnawing the exposed surfaces.” Particularly impressive is the way Doyle utilizes standard LEGO pieces in highly unconventional ways to create landscape elements that are often organic, even fluid in nature. For ... , Paul Keskeys, read more Architizer http://ift.tt/2dPtn83

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