Explore a Growing City of Meticulously Crafted Miniature Paper Buildings by Charles Young

From factories and barrel-roofed buildings to gabled churches and towers, Charles Young’s sprawling yet diminutive city of paper models continues to grow. Known for his miniature constructions and animations that often double as three-dimensional color studies, the sculptor and animator highlights a wide range of architectural styles with an emphasis on color pairings.

Since 2020, Young has been making hundreds of miniature structures inspired by A Dictionary of Color Combinations by Japanese costume designer and painter Sanzo Wada (1883-1967). (There’s even a fun, interactive website based on the book.) So far, Young has completed 258 buildings from the first volume, which focuses on two-color combinations, and there are 90 to go. But he’s created a wide array of examples featuring multiple color combinations, too.

A gif of a colorful miniature garage made of paper with a green car rolling out of it

In June, Young will display 120 three-color paper sculptures at Galerie Handwerk in Munich. And in addition to the paper models, he also creates architecturally inspired sculptures from wood and woven cane, some of which are currently on display in Scotland at Kirkcudbright Galleries and MacLaurin Gallery. See more on Young’s Instagram and Tumblr.

A colorful miniature paper model of a building by Charles Young
A colorful miniature paper model of a building by Charles Young
Colorful miniature paper models of buildings by Charles Young
A colorful miniature paper model of a building by Charles Young
A colorful miniature paper model of a building by Charles Young
Colorful miniature paper models of buildings by Charles Young
A colorful miniature paper model of a building by Charles Young
A colorful miniature paper model of a building by Charles Young
Colorful miniature paper models of buildings by Charles Young

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