Constructables - Issue 2

A curated showcase of stunning builds from around the world — from biomechanical flowers to monumental architecture — each revealing the artistry and imagination of today’s builders.

Issue 2 explores the stories bricks can carry — memory, history, and imagination. From monumental sculpture to wearable art and miniature worlds shaped by light, these pages reveal how builders transform simple elements into meaning.

The Missing Piece is BRICKA's recurring comic that playfully explores the joys, quirks, and chaos of life as an adult brick-builder. Each issue delivers a lighthearted moment of AFOL truth - told in panels, humor, and heart.

Anna Bitanga photographs at four-bricks-tall scale, using LEGO minifigures as her subjects and light as her true medium. Through carefully built scenes and inventive lighting, she turns miniature worlds into intimate, cinematic moments.

JacQueline Sanchez transforms LEGO bricks into fine jewelry set with real diamonds. Her work blends nostalgia with master jeweler craftsmanship, turning a familiar object into wearable art that sparks recognition, memory, and conversation.

What if the best solution isn’t adding more — but removing something instead? A simple LEGO bridge built by a child sparked a global line of research into why humans instinctively add complexity, and why subtraction might be the most overlooked tool in design.

Syreeta Gates builds memory in brick. Through Most Incredible Studio, she transforms Black cultural history into LEGO compositions that preserve stories through the act of building.

Ekow Nimako builds monumental Black futures from black LEGO bricks — reimagining history, myth, and memory through sculpture at breathtaking scale.

WBUR's Up Next tells the story of how BRICKA came to life — and why adult LEGO art has become such a powerful creative movement.

Constructables celebrates the joy of building — build a beautifully simple leafy tree by Brick Sculpt—an elegant piece that turns common elements into organic form. A perfect touch of greenery for any scene.

A curated showcase of stunning builds from around the world - from kaleidoscopic sculptures to serene stilt houses - each revealing the artistry and imagination of today's builders.

BRICKA was created as a space where creativity, play, and design meet — where a single brick becomes story and art. Issue 1 celebrates the makers redefining what LEGO can be.

The Missing Piece is BRICKA's recurring comic that playfully explores the joys, quirks, and chaos of life as an adult brick-builder. Each issue delivers a lighthearted moment of AFOL truth - told in panels, humor, and heart.

Toy photographer Hue Hughes builds entire Star Wars worlds on a tabletop — capturing every explosion, spark, and snow flurry in-camera. His images turn miniature play into cinematic, living moments.

From a Yellow Castle under the Christmas tree to a solo show in Oregon, Portland-based LEGO artist Kelly Bartlett builds scenes that hum with story and feeling. Her work — part puzzle, part poetry, all play — argues that bricks belong in galleries as much as playrooms.

Light Brick Studio turns humble LEGO bricks into luminous digital worlds where cooperation, emotion, and play take center stage. In LEGO Voyagers, even the smallest pieces can carry the power to connect.

A visionary of color and form, Raymond Girard transforms the humble LEGO brick into shimmering utopian skylines — architectural worlds born from resilience, reinvention, and a lifelong instinct to build upward.

Oliver Parr is redefining brick building for the living room and the soul — helping adults rediscover the joy of mindful making.

MassLive’s Scott Kirsner sits down with BRICKA founder Sam Aquillano to talk about the launch of BRICKA Magazine.

Our founder and editor, Sam Aquillano, is featured in PRINT Magazine, where he writes about the inspiration and design thinking behind BRICKA

Brick building is a cultural movement, and BRICKA is here to share its stories.