Gingerbread Architects

Wednesday, 09 December 2009 | by Pat's Picks

Sure, architects can make a building out of brick and mortar. But the real question is can they make one out of cookies and icing? The Chicago Tribune asked a group of architects to re-imagine the classic gingerbread house in three different styles: Colonial New England, International Style of the mid-20th century, and one house featuring “cutting-edge ‘green’ architecture.”

Click here to see blueprints of the miniature houses or here to read more from the Tribune about the “joys of gingerbread”

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