"This is the annual Gingerbread City, and it's not just a festive sprawl of icing and sprinkles, but a showcase of genuine architectural ideas, all realised in gingerbread by actual architects. Threaded between the sweets and gummy bears, the biscuits and fondant façades, are explorations of how real-world places might evolve in response to climate change, urban density and rising populations."
"You'll also spot quite a number of real buildings in miniature: a gingerbread Everyman Theatre, a confectionery-based Fun Palace, a gummy-bear-peopled Houses of Parliament, a fondant Barbican, and several delightfully fanciful railways. Plus one railway that isn't fanciful at all - a working train that loops its way around the top of the exhibition. It's part serious design experiment, part sheer festive delight, and irresistible to wander through simply to marvel at the imagination involved."
Gingerbread City is an annual London exhibition of architectural models crafted entirely from bread, cake, sugar and confectionery. Architects create edible interpretations of genuine design ideas that examine climate-change adaptation, urban density and rising populations. The display features miniature real buildings including a gingerbread Everyman Theatre, a confectionery Fun Palace, a gummy-bear-populated Houses of Parliament, a fondant Barbican and multiple fanciful railways, plus a working model train. The project combines serious design experimentation with festive, child-friendly spectacle. The Museum of Architecture stages the event on the upper floors of Coal Drop Yards near King's Cross. Tickets must be booked in advance and the show runs until 4 January 2026.
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