Brickville DesignWorks

Welcome To
BRICKVILLE DESIGNWORKS

Robin Sather, Canada's only LEGO Certified Professional,
along with the rest of the Brickville team,
welcome you, and hope you enjoy your visit!

What's New ...


December 2011: A belated Merry Christmas to everyone, and best wishes for 2012! Robin was busy this Christmas with a few private commissions, as well as decorating a few Christmas trees around the lower mainland. One of the most fun was a tree that was LEGO-ized for Aspac Developments / River Green at Richmond City Hall for their "Winter Wonderland" display. Click here for some pictures.

October 30, 2011: The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, was visited by the giant Sphinx over the Halloween weekend. There were reports of a mummy seen lurching through the corridors, coming to help Robin build it, but nobody's talking! For Click here for a few pictures (sorry for the poor quality).

October 28, 2011: As many of you know, there's a lot more to LEGO than just the cool building sets you can buy on your local store shelves. If you have ever wanted to learn more about all the interesting ways that LEGO is used and played with by people of ALL ages, all around the world, you need to get this book - The Cult of LEGO. The title may be a little ominous, but if you're reading this, you already know how amazing LEGO really is. You'll learn about everything from the history of the LEGO Company, to what it's like to go to a LEGO convention and see thousands of creations built by adult fans! You'll see incredible LEGO robots, and even see how LEGO is used for very serious business, technical, and engineering applications. Of course, you'll also read about how some people create LEGO art for a living (like Robin!) I really enjoyed the book, and recommend it to you! Find it online at your favourite bookseller, like Chapters or Amazon.

September 24, 2011: London Drugs, in support of Canuck Place, hosted a fun event, as hosts of kids and adults came out to help construct a giant shopping basket! Click here for pictures.

September 10 - 11, 2011: Surrey Libraries sponsored their first 'Building for Literacy' event, with a corporate building challenge, and Robin constructing a model of the new Central Library branch. Click here for pictures!

August 13 - 14, 2011: Lots of fun for Robin & Christian at the Whistler Children's Art Festival, as well as the many kids who came out to play! Each session had some Creativity exercises, some Builder's School, a giant fort build, and a building contest (with prizes!) Click for a view of a giant fort in progress, a completed fort, and a shot of several of the winning contest entries. See you next year!

July 17, 2011: Krause Berry Farms hosted their annual Farmer's Feast, and Robin was on hand to build them a giant strawberry to display in the gift shop for a few weeks. Click here and here for a couple of pictures of the completed berry in the store.

July 1 - 3, 2011: Robin celebrated Canada Day in Ontario's cottage country - at the Muskoka Boat and Heritage Centre in Gravenhurst, where he built a 3 metre replica of one of the last operating steamships in the world, the RMS Segwun. Kids were also able to build their own creations and add them to a "Muskoka Wharf-scape" mural - which looks awesome! The LEGO Segwun remained on display until the end of July, and the Wharf-scape building event goes until the end of August! Click here for pictures from the Canada Day weekend.

June 5 - 8, 2011: Robin and Nathan spent 4 great days building and playing once again, at the Saskatchewan Children's Festival, and had a brilliant time creating pieces from Eric Carle's book, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"! Click here for pictures.

May 20 - 22, 2011: Christian and Robin set up in the main square in Whistler Village and built a peak-to-peak gondola, while visitors built lots of cool creations to populate our mountain scene. Thanks to Tourism Whistler and the Whistler Arts Council for making it all happen. Click here for a few pictures.

May 6 - 8, 2011: Robin visited the Canadian Tulip Festival in Ottawa, and together with hundreds of eager kids, worked on a LEGO Garden together. Robin built giant DUPLO tulip blossoms, while the kids built everything from flowers to snails, butterflies, trees, and more (we had the odd monster, tower, and spaceship thrown in for good measure!) Click here for pictures. The giant tulips remain on display, and the LEGO Garden build goes on until May 23, 2011. Go and check it out!

April 30, 2011: The 2011 Cuboree went LEGO crazy! 600 cub scouts from troops all over the lower mainland built both BIG forts, and small creations at camp McLean in Langley. Robin & Christian were both on hand to make it happen. Click here for lots of pictures from the event.

March 18 - 20, 2011: LEGO Mania hit Tillicum Shopping Centre in Victoria over spring break. Once again, over a hundred kids entered the building challenge, the VicLUG crew was on hand to display their awesome stuff, and Robin and Christian built a giant old-fashioned "Routemaster" double decker tour bus! Click here for lots of pictures from the event, including the challenge winners and their creations. Also, check out the Tillicum Kids website for more pictures. See you next year!

February 18 - 20, 2011: Everyone had an awesome time, building lots of different stuff! Robin & Christian built a giant version of the new Abbotsford Canuck Place building, kids brought in their own creations from home, and also built "The Ultimate Playground" around the Canuck Place model. We also had lots of local organizations and businesses participate in a building challenge. Everybody was building something! Big thanks to the great volunteers, and to Sevenoaks Mall for their great support. Click here for pictures

December 2, 2010: Robin visited Toronto to participate in the Toronto Firefighters Toy Drive. It was great night, with lots of LEGO to play with, good food, hot chocolate, kids' choirs, and even live reindeer! Robin built a large model of one of Toronto's Fire Engines live, on-site (outside in -5 C temperature!). Click here, or at right, for a picture of the finished model. A ladder for the top was also built, but not quite finished in time. Oh well, there's always next year!

November 28, 2010: Merry Christmas, everyone! Willowbrook Shopping Centre is host to the giant DUPLO Christmas Tree, built by Robin & Christian, and decorated by you! Click here for pictures. Special thanks to the fabulous "Dotties" for all their help, along with my other excellent volunteers (you know who you are!)

December, 2010: A short article about Robin appears in the December 2010 (Canadian) issue of Reader's Digest. There's also a short slide show on the web site, featuring a few past creations. Fun!

October 2, 2010: At Brickcon 2010 in Seattle, Robin & Christian finish building a giant Japanese torii gate, and win the prize for "Best Traditional Japanese" creation. Click here for pictures.

September 24 - 26, 2010: The Wheels, Wings & Waves exhibit opens in Edmonton at the Telus World of Science, and the shuttle prepares to blast off once again. Click here for a picture of the finished shuttle. Thanks to all for a great weekend!

September 16 - 17, 2010: To celebrate all the fund-raising that TD Bank Financial Group does on behalf of some great childrens' charities, Robin built a full-size green 'Comfy' chair! Click here for pictures.

August 23 - 24, 2010: Just in time for back to school, a whole crew of eager builders joined Robin and Christian, at Willowbrook Shopping Centre, to build a gigantic 3-metre tall backpack, filled with lots of school supplies. Click here for pictures.

Last Updated: 15 Jan 2012