Actually, a very short trip for Brick America - only down to the South West of England!

Earlier this year, we opened a custom exhibition for the American Museum. Located just outside of Bath, it celebrates Americana and opened to the public way back in 1961. To create a summer blockbuster exhibition for 2023, we were asked to re-imagine some American landmarks in bricks!

We build a 3 meter tall Saturn V for the National Museum of Flight

Can we build a hospital that can be completely flat packed and transported to multiple events? Of course we can!

Paxton House, in Berwickshire invited us to help celebrate Easter with a BIG Build of a suitably seasonally accessorised Easter Bunny!

and a happy holiday to you, whatever you celebrate at this time of year!

We’re closing down now, at the end of a very hectic year. So we’ll see you in 2023 and leave you with this picture. A few years back we were asked by LEGO (UK) to provide a Christmas tree for the Dream Toys event in London. Look who we bumped into!

One of the fun things about touring our exhibitions is that every so often we can update them. Sometime we’ll build a new version of an existing model - sometimes it’s a completely new model. So, let me introduce you to ‘Polly’ the Polacanthus!

The summer has gone by in a flash this year, here we are in October planning our next tours out, some very exciting commissions and our tours into 2023 and 2024. We have certainly travelled a few miles over the summer, vans, trains, planes and ferries have helped us with our brilliant summer locations. We have had a blast and managed to squeeze in one of our favourite fan events too.

We don’t always build big things! I loved making this model. It was a surprise gift to one of the Sweetgreen Founders from his brother. A replica of their first location, on the corner of M and Bank in Washington DC, and standing outside, minifigure versions of the three Founders all smiles!

They say ‘better late than never’ and in this case, it’s been two years! This summer, ‘Brick by Brick’ opens in Exeter - an exhibition literally years in the making!

We often say that we can build anything and everything. That even extends to things that we’ve never seen!

It has been over 3 years, but this week we finally did our first event since the pandemic! Over the last couple of days, we’ve been working with visitors to the Wrexham Museum to add a final element to their already popular exhibition. The space in the gallery was limited - so what better way to add more colour than a mosaic?

As we head into spring we have had an exciting few weeks getting our tours ready for Easter. Already a fantastic trip taking Brick City from Edinburgh to Guernsey and another tour already open in Chichester. It's been a great few months, really good to be back out seeing fans and the community at Bricktastic in February, we forget how much we have missed the interaction and seeing everyone face to face. This year is set to be epic, with plans for our tours and commissions, we look forward to keeping you up to date with our news and developments.

Whilst our touring exhibitions continue to travel around the world, sometimes we’re asked to do something a little more special. This one has been in the works since 2019!

Delayed from 2020 due to a certain virus that you might have heard of, Brick by Brick has been developed especially for the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter. Within the exhibition, you’ll be able to chart the history of Exeter through nine special commissions. Here’s a sneak peak!

Last week Teresa and I took another ferry trip, this time to the Channel Island of Guernsey, to install Brick City.

This is our first foray into the Channel Islands and there were a couple of other firsts too:

Our St Pancras model has been spruced up and is now sporting all-new barriers and interpretation.

Guernsey also marks the first time that Brick City has been accompanied by the Digital Companion. You can access details on all of our models by scanning the QR code, or tapping your device against it. I’ve even recorded audio guides for all the models and some cheesy voice-overs.

Looking for something to do this half term? Brick History just opened in Peterborough and NEW for 2022, you can explore our models online as well!

If you tried to get in touch with the team over the last quarter of 2021, you might have had a tough time as we were all a little busy….

Over the course of a few months we delivered one of our most complicated builds for some time. It would be large, detailed and for a client a very long way away. In fact, we’d never meet or even talk to the client. This is the story of how it all came about.

Sometimes we're approached with a request that isn't so much about the build - it's more about the photography of the final result. When we were asked to create a magazine cover we knew it would be the case this time!