Monday, December 04, 2023
The Gingerbread City in New York features gingerbread houses by architects
www.archpaper.com: This holiday season, with the sounds of Dean Martin’s A Marshmallow World festively ringing in your ears, you can feast your eyes on a model-sized city made from gingerbread, marshmallows, candy, and lots and lots of frosting that has been designed and built by over 50 of New York architecture’s biggest names.
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I have lived next to New York City for ten years now and have not heard about the Gingerbread City before. I absolutely love gingerbread houses and since my birthday falls in December, I would always do a gingerbread house building competition, though our houses always turned out pretty bad. So, I love seeing actually skilled bakers and architects make these large scaled beautiful gingerbread houses or cities. I think it is so fun that New York was able to get over 50 huge architects to make gingerbread houses for this but I love it. I love seeing all the different types of unconventional materials and candies people chose to make these really cool designs and solve unique challenges to making things like glass or domes. I desperately want to go see this display and I hope I can when I go back home for winter break before it closes.
This is so whimsical! I love gingerbread houses but never really enjoy putting them together because the outcome is typically not what I had in mind and I end up just getting frustrated. This, however, is everything I love about gingerbread houses. It accomplishes the quintessential winter wonderland vibe. You can definitely tell that it was put together by professionals. I love the craftsmanship on the hills with the trees. I also love the incorporation of different types of candy but without taking away from the effect of this being nonetheless a gingerbread village. I am so curious as to how they did the windows. They look just like stained glass and it truly looks like a scale model of a church. The Gingerbread Museum of Confectionary Art is absolutely stunning. I had to stop reading to just look at it for a while. The curves are so masterful and to create pockets of windows??? You’re kidding. I want to live there.
This was such a fun read! It kind of reminds me of an edible Guess-Who in some ways, as all of these different designers came together and made gingerbread in their style. I wonder how long this took them all to make, it’s so cool that they were able to make such creative designs! It’s really hard to make gingerbread structurally sound, especially when it is baked softer. Also the frosting doesn’t always hold it quite right, I know the times I’ve attempted making gingerbread houses were quite hilariously flawed. To completely redesign a previous work, or architecture in your style with an opposite medium as well as scale is definitely a challenge, and they did so well! It’s such a fun and festive way to kick off the holiday season, I would love to see them in person. Maybe when I go home for winter break I can see it! It will be cool to look at all of the intricate details in person. I wonder how they decided what they were going to create.
Wow! Beautiful! These houses and towns and landscapes are stunning and gorgeous. I love architecture and it is so cool to see what an architect would do when designing a gingerbread house. To be completely honest, the actual gingerbread houses and landscaping is pretty, but the blue blocks that it is built on top of and around are really not visually appealing to the eye. I understand that they are not the focus of this piece but it almost takes away from the beauty for me because I am looking at this ugly blue next to the brown and white and rainbow of the gingerbread, frosting, and candy next to it. It just clashes, but that is not the architects fault, and the work that they did was great. Some were more successful with following the very cool prompt and their overall design than others but overall it looks pretty good!
I find this very fun. A bad article to read on an empty stomach because these look so yummy. Creating gingerbread houses among architects is such a fun way to showcase design talent. It was interesting to learn that all of the materials they are allowed to use have to be edible. The challenge lies in creating stable and visually appealing structures that you could also eat. I don’t think you’ll want to after they’ve been on display in New York for weeks. I will not have the time or resources to get to New York before I get home for the holidays so I will be missing out on seeing these beauties in person. But if this event has wanted to inspire in anyway they have roped me in because now I want to build a gingerbread house. Mine never turn out very good but hey maybe thats because I’m ot an architect.
I unfortunately never got to see the Harry Potter musical while it was playing however I am not sure if I would have wanted to. I hold the Harry Potter Books and movies close to my heart as I have a lot of fond memories of them when I was a little kid. Things we did as a family together that involved this wonderful story, and I would not want anything to ruin my impression of Harry Potter. So I was torn, I was also torn because I already felt like while they actually did a decent job with the Harry Potter movies, I do not particularly like turning books into movies because it can ruin them. So, when the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child musical came out I was skeptical. Although at this point I have heard so many good things I would like to go see it, if for nothing else than the technical effects of it. I will be interested to see what becomes of it at a highschool level, as I understand some of the effects will be difficult to pull off well in a lower budget production. All in all I do hope it goes on tour again so I can experience it and make an informed decision on the show.
Reading about the gingerbread city was really cute. This is such a fun and festive idea and I think it would really get people in the holiday spirit. It is so cool how they got architects from around the world to be a part of this project. I think it’s so special that everyone came together to collaborate, which I think is definitely part of the season's purpose. It is to bring people together. Looking at the designs, it is really cool how creative everyone got with these gingerbread houses. They really thought of so many things and used gingerbread, frosting, and other ingredients in ways that I would not have expected. Everything is so detailed you can tell they put so much care into it. I also think it’s really cool that they incorporated infrastructure and transportation, and made it like a real mini-city. It’s also really fun that you can see the different aesthetics of the different architects throughout the gingerbread city.
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