Vancouver architects create 'modern' gingerbread houses for a good cause
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Your support makes all the difference.Creative Room, a Vancouver-based design collective, has challenged some of the city's top architects to come up with original gingerbread solutions for the future, which are currently being auctioned off on the internet.
The submissions from the ten participating practices are not always on the serious side of things, with McFarlane Green Biggar Architecture + Design tackling the issues of "Research in Sustainable Gingerbread Technologies" or Eastside Design & Solus Decor presenting the 'Earthship Lollipop,' "the world's first LEAD (Leadership in Edible Architectural Design) Platinum residence."
Other architects replicated actual Vancouver townhouses or thought about alternative endings to 'The Gingerbread Boy.'
"We asked the entrants to do away with ubiquitous veneer of jujubes and Smarties in an effort to re-interpret the gingerbread house within a modern context. The results were outstanding," Creative Room enthused.
All houses can still be bid for through December 10 before a subsequent gala event at the Museum of Vancouver, starting at 7 pm. Tickets for the event can be bought for CA$20 (US$19) at touchlesstickets.com.
Proceeds of the auction will go to Architecture for Humanity.
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