Author: Tom Alphin Tom is the Editor-in-Chief at Brick Architect. He founded the website in 2015 just before releasing his bestselling book The LEGO Architect (which teaches 7 architectural styles using LEGO bricks). In addition to reviewing new LEGO Architecture sets, he likes to write articles exploring technical aspects of the LEGO hobby including LEGO storage, and the LEGO color palette.
Tom has written 243 stories for Brick Architect.
After 15 years of the LEGO Winter Village series, those sneaky elves keep finding creative new ways to celebrate. Let’s find out if the latest installment lives up to the holiday spirit!
More than just a toy company, let’s look at the business of LEGO through the lens of recent news and some great LEGO articles from around the web.
Let’s take a closer look at the closest thing we’re likely to get to a ‘buildable’ LEGO shoe that you can actually wear.
Let’s take a closer look at the new sets for August, including in-depth reviews of a few of them which are of particular interest to Adult builders.
Easily the most beautiful addition to the LEGO Architecture series in years, this set also features a new element and a good value — but is it one of the best sets in the series?
An awesome LEGO Technic set that has a heavy lift to justify the hefty price tag. Let’s find out if it’s worth it!
Fresh LEGO reviews, a music video inspired by this website, and some great articles from around the web.
The robots are not coming for your LEGO…
In the interest of transparency and to further the important discussion about the long-term role of AI technologies in our society, I have added an AI Policy section to our About page. As always, we would love to hear your thoughts about our approach, or additional AI technologies we should consider that align with our goals and values. The following is an excerpt of our Artificial Intelligence Policy.
Here at Brick Architect, we take pride in creating in-depth LEGO content that is written by humans, for humans. We also recognize that a number of Artifical Intelligence (AI) technologies can help us create better content.
Our Goal: Even with the introduction of advanced generative AI built on neural network architectures (such as ChatGPT), we will continue to write our own stories and complement them with great photography. If we decide to include AI-generated images or text in future articles, they will be clearly marked.
We are currently using AI technology in the following ways:
Lastly, as more and more content from around the web is replaced with AI generated content, we aim to continue offering rigorously researched articles written by humans. We’ve always include links to source material when appropriate, but we will make a greater effort to include more citations to reputable sources that help us write the best content possible.
As always, we would love to hear your thoughts about our approach, or additional AI technologies we should consider that align with our goals and values.
This sprawling remake of the 1989 classic is The LEGO Group’s boldest plea for nostalgia-fueled spending yet — Can five times as many parts make it 5x better than the original set?
Let’s take a closer look at these two modular LEGO Friends sets that can be combined to create an even taller tower — are they better apart, or better together?
Find out how 3d printing can complement your LEGO hobby, learn about a rare LEGO Architecture build-and-take set, and see highlights from the overwhelming selection of new sets in June!
Lots of great LEGO Fan Media content this month, plus an overview of the new sets released in May (including several new Star Wars sets).
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