Gingerbread Home Baker Competition!
Make your own Gingerbread House and send in a photo to win the title: The Gingerbread City's Home Baker 2020!
There will be three categories to enter and win:
1. Your own creation
2. Santa's House
3. Ice Castle
To enter, take a photo of your creation and instagram your entry with the category you are entering and include the hashtag #TheGingerbreadCityHomeBaker. Alternatively, send the photo in by email to office@museumofarchitecture.org with the category and your name. Winners will be chosen on 24 December to be revealed on Christmas Day.
Inspiration images below:
Make your own Gingerbread House and send in a photo to win the title: The Gingerbread City's Home Baker 2020!
There will be three categories to enter and win:
1. Your own creation
2. Santa's House
3. Ice Castle
To enter, take a photo of your creation and instagram your entry with the category you are entering and include the hashtag #TheGingerbreadCityHomeBaker. Alternatively, send the photo in by email to office@museumofarchitecture.org with the category and your name. Winners will be chosen on 24 December to be revealed on Christmas Day.
Inspiration images below:
Architecture practice Finkernagel Ross’s visualisation of Santa’s House is inspired by the creativity that ensued during lockdown, with Santa swapping his Claus-trophibic traditional North Pole residence for the latest that Polar architecture has to offer. The new Arctic landmark is designed to be constructed from a kit of triangular CLG panels (cross-laminated gingerbread), sustainably fabricated off-site, and transported by sleigh for easy elf-ssembly. Vast expanses of gelatine manipulate natural light and allow for pine sky views. Deer-lighted with the design for his new ho-ho-home, the annual bringer of cheer said “I’m snow pleased with the design and can’t wait to see it bake shape.”
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The Ice Palace by Studio Aki is inspired by the practice’s Urban Histories project. The Ice Palace imagines a secret abandoned Victorian house on a London street, that has frozen suspending the history of the house and its occupants in ice. Invisible from the street the palace is a hidden historical treasure waiting to be discovered.
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Family Activities
and other fun What are the components of a castle? You can make one with materials you have at home! (takes a second to load) |
Did you know? "The term, gingerbread is now generally used to describe any sweet treat that combines ginger with honey, treacle or molasses." source: Avey, Tori. “The History of Gingerbread.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 20 Dec. 2013, www.pbs.org/food/the-history-kitchen/history-gingerbread/. Castles you can
actually stay in! Amberley Castle, UK
Château de la Caze, France
Taj Lake Palace, India
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Colouring
For Adults and Children BDP The Palace of Light Castle Hill The Palace of Gingerbread City has been adapted into a solar tower, transferring reflected sunlight into clean energy for the entire city. Positioned at the city’s highest point, this Palace of Light is now a central hub of zero carbon transportation, utilising electric drone taxis and bikes docked at ‘charging trees’. The new elements on a green roof and solar tower are clearly defined using a timber waffle structure to separate it from the old. Behind the Scenes
With Architecture Practice PLP |