City Build

In this engaging hands-on activity, your group gets to design and build a miniature urban landscape out of commonly available materials. You’ll team up to create residential and business districts, roads, waterways and more.

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Why this event?

City Build is a fun, memorable experience that emphasizes strong team dynamics and group-wide collaboration. Planning, strategy and clear communication are essential to ensuring the zones of your city interconnect and flow smoothly. A defined time limit means you’ll also be drawing on time and resource management skills.

Small teams are each assigned a specific zone to build. These include industrial, residential, leisure and business districts, plus interconnecting infrastructure features like roads, rail and waterways. Teams must collaborate effectively as they develop their plans – a shared vision helps maintain coherent flow across the various zones, so your city can function as a whole. The goal is for teams to make their sections as aesthetically pleasing as they are functional.

Once the individual sections are complete, we connect them all together to create a big reveal moment. This is a great time for everyone to stop and take in the full picture of what they’ve accomplished together. The results may not be perfect. But it’s all part of the experience – with the right mindset, there are laughs and lessons to be shared from both the successes and failures. Sort of like real life.

Three team members in hard hats proudly cutting a ribbon to unveil their collaborative City Build project, featuring a detailed miniature urban landscape.

Team members in hard hats pose together around a completed City Build project, showcasing a colorful miniature city model with roads, buildings, and greenery.

Colorful miniature city model displayed on tables, surrounded by yellow and blue hard hats, featuring buildings, roads, and greenery for a City Build team building activity.

Team members collaborating on a City Build team building project, working together to construct miniature city zones using materials, models, and creative elements.

Large group celebrating their completed City Build project during a team building event, with a colorful miniature city displayed in the center of the room.

Close-up of a colorful miniature city created during the City Build team building event, featuring small buildings, toy vehicles, and greenery.

Close-up of a creative miniature city build with vibrant greenery, pink trees, and decorative pathways during a City Build team building event.

Two participants at a City Build team building event focus on constructing a detailed miniature city model using materials like trees, buildings, and flags.

Team members at a City Build team building event collaborate to design and assemble a creative miniature city model using various materials on a round table.

Close-up of a completed miniature city model at the City Build team building event, surrounded by yellow and blue hard hats, showcasing teamwork and creativity.

Team members collaborating at a table during the City Build team building event, planning their miniature city model with materials and blueprints.

Group photo of participants proudly showcasing their completed miniature city model at the City Build team building event.

Close-up of a detailed miniature city model featuring buildings, roads, trees, and waterways created during the City Build team building event.

Creative city model with labeled towers, roads, waterways, and miniature vehicles, showcasing teamwork from the City Build team building event.

Close-up of a miniature city model featuring a restaurant, hotel, parking lot, and roadway, created during a City Build team building activity.

Close-up of a creative tower structure with a clock and decorated buildings in a City Build team building event, surrounded by miniature roads and greenery.

Participants at a City Build team building event admire and photograph an intricately designed miniature cityscape featuring roads, buildings, trees, and a central clock tower.

A large group of participants celebrates their success at a City Build team building event, posing around a detailed miniature city model while wearing hard hats and smiling enthusiastically.

A close-up of a miniature playground scene at a City Build team building event, featuring toy figurines, a sandbox, palm trees, and vibrant greenery, with participants working in the background.

Team members collaborate on a City Build team building activity, constructing miniature urban landscapes using green materials and small props.

A participant carefully works on a miniature urban zone during a City Build team building event, focusing on adding details to the landscape.

Close-up of colorful mini-figures lined up for use in a City Build team building activity, representing people within the miniature city project.

Participants working together at a City Build team building event, preparing materials and brainstorming plans for their collaborative city project.

Team members collaborating on city maps at a City Build team building event, sketching ideas and planning zones for their project.

Colorful and detailed miniature city model created during a City Build team building event, featuring buildings, roads, trees, and decorative lights.

Close-up view of a vibrant City Build team building project showcasing miniature houses, trees, a school bus, and decorative lights on a grassy layout.

Group photo of participants wearing hard hats, proudly posing behind their completed miniature city during a City Build team building event.

Colorful miniature city layout with houses, trees, roads, and decorative lights, created during a City Build team building activity.

Overhead view of a completed City Build project featuring a connected miniature city with buildings, roads, and parks, created during a collaborative team building activity.

Two participants collaborate to build a detailed section of a miniature city during a City Build team building activity, adding fences and trees to the green landscape.

A completed City Build team building project featuring a vibrant miniature city with buildings, roads, trees, and glowing lights, surrounded by yellow hard hats on display.

Team size

20-200

Time needed

2-3 hours

Space requirement

You’ll want a large indoor space – a private conference room or ballroom is perfect. Each team will need with a round table, with a chair for each participant. We’ll also need 2 – 3 long tables at the front of the room for event materials. Groups larger than 50 require a microphone and speaker setup.

Ideal for

Project management
Resource/time management
Strategy
Boosting creativity
Project kickoffs

Tailoring

TeamBonding is all about customization. Would you like specific elements of company branding, culture and/or mission statement woven into your introduction and debrief? Just let us know what you have in mind.

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"What! An! AMAZING! Event!!!! It was PERFECT and couldn’t have asked for a more amazing activity. Everyone, and I mean, EVERYONE loved the activity. The team, including the VP, was 100% dedicated to the task… it was a delight to witness. I like to take this time to thank you for working with us and offering such awesome activities. I hope to team up with you again for some of our future events. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!!"

Marriot

"Everyone was EXTREMELY pleased with how the event went! The entire group was super engaged from beginning to end. Kevin and the team did a great job. Thanks!"

iCIMS

"Amazing staff. Super professionals. A pleasure to work with. And the activity was A#1"

MarketLogic

"Everything went smoothly, and our engineers had a great time! Thank you. I hope to plan more fun activities with you in the future."

Hinge Health

"Everyone had a great time and were able to follow the instructions. Michael, who led the City Build session last Friday was great. A lot of energy. Thank you for helping us make this happen on such short notice."

SendBird

"Everyone had sooooooo much fun. They didn’t even take a scheduled break in the program. I can’t express how much of a success it was. And the staff, they were great!!"

USPTO

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