Vintage Lego Builds

Rebuilding forgotten Lego that were missing instructions

IB 238 – The blue building that didn’t have a name

Hello vintage LEGO lovers 💙

On page 2 of the German edition of Idea Book 238, quietly sitting among several colorful buildings, there is a tall blue apartment block that LEGO never bothered to name. No official title, no story, no proud label — just a building, minding its own business in the background.

Naturally, that felt a little unfair.

Ideas Book 238-1 German – Page 2

So I decided to call it “The Blue Building That Didn’t Have a Name.”

You can almost imagine it humming softly to itself:
“I’ve been through the town with a building with no name…”

There’s something wonderfully humble about this model. It doesn’t shout for attention, it doesn’t have fancy architectural tricks, it doesn’t have a perfect symetrical structure and yet it stands tall and confident — just a straightforward, slightly anonymous piece of city life from the early LEGO imagination.

As always on VintageLegoBuilds.com, this model is my careful reconstruction of the building visible in the original illustration. By studying proportions, window placement, and roof geometry, I recreated the structure using standard LEGO elements and prepared building instructions and a complete parts inventory so you can bring this quietly iconic structure to life.

Because sometimes the most memorable buildings…
are the ones that never had a name.

Instructions

Inventory

Quantity Image Part ID Color Part name
32 Brick 1 x 2 (Blue) 3004 Blue Brick 1 x 2
46 Brick 2 x 2 (Blue) 3003 Blue Brick 2 x 2
28 Brick 2 x 3 (Blue) 3002 Blue Brick 2 x 3
58 Brick 2 x 4 (Blue) 3001 Blue Brick 2 x 4
6 Brick 2 x 8 (Blue) 3007 Blue Brick 2 x 8
1 Slope 45 2 x 1 Double / Inverted without Bottom Tube or Bottom Stud Holder (Red) 3049b Red Slope 45 2 x 1 Double / Inverted without Bottom Tube or Bottom Stud Holder
3 Slope 45 2 x 1 Triple without Inside Bar or Bottom Stud Holder (Red) 3048a Red Slope 45 2 x 1 Triple without Inside Bar or Bottom Stud Holder
13 Slope 45 2 x 2 (Red) 3039 Red Slope 45 2 x 2
4 Slope 45 2 x 2 Double Concave (Red) 3046 Red Slope 45 2 x 2 Double Concave
24 Slope 45 2 x 2 Double Convex Corner (Red) 3045 Red Slope 45 2 x 2 Double Convex Corner
6 Slope 45 2 x 3 (Red) 3038 Red Slope 45 2 x 3
2 Slope 45 2 x 3 Double (Red) 3042 Red Slope 45 2 x 3 Double
20 Slope 45 2 x 4 (Red) 3037 Red Slope 45 2 x 4
1 Door 1 x 2 x 3 Hinge on Left with Trans-Clear Glass (White) 32bc01 White Door 1 x 2 x 3 Hinge on Left with Trans-Clear Glass
4 Plate 4 x 8 (White) 3035 White Plate 4 x 8
4 Window 1 x 1 x 2 with Extended Lip, with Glass (White) 29bc01 White Window 1 x 1 x 2 with Extended Lip, with Glass
32 Window 1 x 2 x 2 with Extended Lip, with Glass, Hole in Top (White) 7026bc01 White Window 1 x 2 x 2 with Extended Lip, with Glass, Hole in Top
4 Window 1 x 3 x 2 with Extended Lip, with Glass (White) 31bc01 White Window 1 x 3 x 2 with Extended Lip, with Glass