842 – Samsonite Town Plan Apartment Tower

Hello vintage LEGO lovers 🏢

Tucked neatly into the corner of Town Plan set 842, standing a little apart from the shops and houses, rises a building that feels almost… ambitious. While most of the layout spreads comfortably across the ground, this one chooses a different path: it goes up.

This is the apartment tower.

In the original instructions, its construction is almost hypnotic. A simple base, a repeating module, and then — floor after floor — the same pattern stacking higher and higher, like a quiet exercise in architectural persistence. It’s a perfect example of early LEGO design logic: take one idea, repeat it with confidence, and suddenly you have a skyscraper.

The façade is wonderfully rhythmic, with its protruding window sections creating a grid that feels both structured and slightly playful. There’s no excess here, no decoration for decoration’s sake — just pure, functional verticality. And yet, it works. More than that, it defines the skyline of the whole Town Plan.

Let’s rebuild it, respecting the instructions bellow given in Set 842 original leaflet.

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