Minecraft famous landmarks: 26 build ideas with step-by-step plans
Every build below has an interactive 3D model, a numbered plan for each layer, full-screen step-by-step instructions and a complete materials list. Pick one to start building.
- Coastal LighthouseIntermediate · 890 blocksA tall red-and-white striped lighthouse on a rocky island, with a ladder inside, a railed lookout gallery and a glowing sea-lantern lamp room under a…
- Big BenAdvanced · 2,509 blocksLondon's famous clock tower: a tall sandstone shaft with Gothic window bays, four big clock faces with gold rims, an open belfry and a dark green…
- Eiffel TowerExpert · 5,706 blocksThe Iron Lady, 75 blocks tall: four lattice legs that lean in as they rise, the great arches between them, two viewing platforms, a slender spire and…
- Taj MahalExpert · 9,763 blocksThe marble mausoleum at monumental scale: a chamfered hall with four pointed iwan arches, a huge onion dome on a drum, four domed kiosks, four…
- T-Mobile ParkExpert · 21,513 blocksThe Mariners' ballpark with its famous retractable roof parked open. A striped grass outfield and clay infield with bases, mound and foul lines, a…
- Space NeedleExpert · 10,715 blocksThe 1962 World's Fair tower at about 1:2 scale: three pairs of hourglass legs that pinch in at the waist and flare out under the top, the central…
- Statue of LibertyExpert · 13,733 blocksLady Liberty in weathered copper green: a flowing robe with deep folds and a diagonal stola, her right arm raised with the gilded torch flame, the…
- ColosseumExpert · 22,365 blocksThe Flavian Amphitheatre as it stands today: an elliptical travertine shell with three tiers of arches framed by engaged columns and the solid attic…
- Empire State BuildingExpert · 17,279 blocksNew York's Art Deco icon at about one block per floor: a five-storey base, stepped setbacks up to the long main shaft with its projecting centre…
- White HouseAdvanced · 16,567 blocksThe south side of the White House: the three-storey Executive Residence with its curved South Portico of tall white columns and the Truman Balcony…
- Burj KhalifaExpert · 28,513 blocksDubai's Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, as a 196-block glass needle. Its Y-shaped "desert flower" plan has three wings around a…
- Golden Gate BridgeExpert · 29,498 blocksSan Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge in International Orange, stretched 217 blocks between two rocky headlands. Two Art Deco towers with stepped tops…
- Pyramids & SphinxExpert · 27,529 blocksThe Giza plateau in blocks. The Great Pyramid rises 25 stepped layers of weathered sandstone to a gold capstone, and it is hollow: a chevron-roofed…
- TitanicExpert · 23,940 blocksRMS Titanic steaming through a dark North Atlantic night, a 151-block liner with a black hull, a white superstructure and a strip of red antifouling…
- Las Vegas SphereExpert · 20,164 blocksThe world’s largest spherical screen, just off the Las Vegas Strip, showing its most famous image: a giant blood-shot eyeball staring down the plaza…
- Sydney Opera HouseExpert · 19,899 blocksJørn Utzon’s masterpiece on Bennelong Point: two side-by-side halls roofed with nested, pointed shell vaults tiled in glossy white and matte cream…
- Christ the RedeemerExpert · 14,859 blocksThe Art Deco statue of Christ with outstretched arms, standing on the granite peak of Corcovado above Rio de Janeiro. The pale soapstone figure has…
- Neuschwanstein CastleExpert · 22,190 blocksKing Ludwig II's fairy-tale castle on its rocky crag in the Bavarian Alps. Pale limestone palace with arched windows and a Throne Hall inside…
- Machu PicchuExpert · 22,749 blocksThe lost city of the Incas on its saddle high above the Urubamba river. Dry-stone terraces step down the slopes, granite houses with thatched roofs…
- Venice Grand CanalExpert · 17,969 blocksA stretch of the Grand Canal: colourful palazzi in terracotta, ochre, pink and cream with pointed Venetian Gothic windows and balconies, striped…
- Mountain ObservatoryAdvanced · 11,620 blocksA research observatory on top of a rocky mountain. A road with lanterns winds up the slopes past spruce trees to the flat summit, where a big white…
- Grand Central TerminalExpert · 24,853 blocksThe Beaux-Arts gateway to New York. Three giant arched windows framed by paired columns face 42nd Street, crowned by the Tiffany clock and the…
- Biltmore EstateExpert · 24,690 blocksAmerica's largest house in pale limestone under steep blue-grey slate roofs with copper cresting. The open spiral Grand Staircase tower climbs beside…
- Hearst CastleExpert · 24,977 blocksWilliam Randolph Hearst's hilltop castle above the Pacific. Casa Grande rises in white stucco and carved stone to twin Spanish-cathedral bell towers…
- Marina Bay SandsExpert · 24,217 blocksSingapore's famous skyline hotel: three 57-storey glass towers, each made of two legs that lean together as they rise, topped by the SkyPark, a…
- Burj Al ArabExpert · 18,989 blocksDubai's sail-shaped hotel on its own artificial island. Two wings of rooms form a V behind a huge white fabric sail, with the white exoskeleton frame…