Gingerbread City 2020

One of our favourite holiday movies is Home Alone so my son and I tried to make a house reminiscent of the McAllister home.

Materials include icing, gingerbread, runts, gumballs, thread, jujubes, cardboard, popsicle sticks, toothpicks, and crushed mints.

"I moved back home to Toronto a few years ago, after more than 20 years away. I settled in the Annex, my “architectural home”, where a high school teacher sent my geography class out to examine the buildings, the neighbourhood, and the built environment. The Toronto vernacular – none more iconic than the semi-detached bay-and-gable – was imprinted on my mind and became the basis for my love of architecture. Home…this must be the place. "

© 2016 Toronto Society of Architects | A Society of the Ontario Association of ArchitectsContact Us Materials include gingerbread, chocolate gingerbread, royal icing, corn syrup icing (two colours), wafer cookies, and shredded coconut

This home is a small retreat in the Canadian wilderness. The A-Frame structure is nestled into the landscape, a triangular window facing a birch tree forest frames views of a snow-laden landscape. This small home is a fantasy in sugar and gingerbread, projecting warm and cozy visions of intimate winter evenings in the expanse of the wilderness.

"The Topography is constructed of stacked gingerbread. The trees are spun sugar The A-Frame cottage is cast sugar glass. "

Staff from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts and Science came together to build a collection of twenty stackable suites, or ‘sweets’, that represent our collective memory of living spaces during this unique time. We all worked in Sid Smith prior to the pandemic, and now our home is our new Sid Smith. Created by UofT staff — sometimes with help from their children — these music rooms, living and dining rooms, bedrooms, outdoor terraces, and other spaces represent what ‘home’ is to us. Each with a different personality, the suites represent our experience at home, around the clock, often in tight spaces that serve more than one purpose. Home now defines our work/live/eat/sleep/play. Now more than ever, home is where our stories happen, where our memories reside.

In addition to gingerbread and royal icing, we used all edible materials (both sweet and savory) to create each unit, including but not limited to: wafer cookies, graham crackers, rice paper, gum drops and gummies, soba noodles, tortilla, celery, vitamins, sugar glass, edible paint, marshmallows, peanut butter cups, chocolate, caramel, life savers, licorice, melba toast, rosemary, Fruit Roll Ups, Pez, M&Ms, gumballs, cereal, fondant, sprinkles, pretzels, vanilla wafers, rice crackers, coarse salt, orange peel, seaweed.

A gingerbread interpretation of our 'Bellwoods Lodge' home and studio, which was featured as part of last summer's virtual TSA Home Tours

Materials include gingerbread, miscellaneous candy sparkles, and gummy trees

This mid-century gingerbread is an ode to the suburbs — which for many of us is synonymous with home. Just as other gingerbreads often favour more “traditional” architecture, this mid-century home showcases another historically-significant era of design.

"Materials include: For the house — gingerbread, PEZ candy, snowball gumballs, black licorice rope, royal icing, fondant (for the house) For the planters — Marshmallows, white chocolate, fondant, green licorice/gummies For the snow — Shredded coconut, icing powder. For the interiors — Pretzel floor, Christmas tree (green candyballs), Runts, ice cream cone."

Based on Uno Prii’s Jane-Exbury Towers (1969) in North York, this edible slab is home to 256 gingerbread families. While at first glance there is a lot of repetition in this modernist bake, each of the apartments has a unique personality and character and many of its residents have come to say hello! As someone who has never lived in a house, a tower has always been home to me (like to so many other Torontonians!) so it was a natural fit for this year’s theme. Standing 2' feet tall, we hear this gingerbread dwelling boasts quite the kitchen views!

Ingredients included home-baked gingerbread (both with corn syrup and molasses to achieve the different colours); jolly ranchers and butterscotch candy for the windows; royal icing to put it all together and to pipe the evergreens; graham cracker balconies; pocky and gum balls for the light fixtures.

Sol-a-bode is based on a house I created with my parents and where we may one day live. It is a home that is responsive to it's special siting, to the knoll of bedrock, the south-eastern views to the ocean, and the natural flora and fauna. It strives to embody the values that my family most believes in - respecting context, avoiding waste, treading lightly on the earth and delighting in the beauty of place.

Materials include gingerbread, Royal Icing, candy canes, candied nuts & seeds, every-flavour jelly beans, 'choco minis', candied ginger, candied citrus peel, marshmallows, After Eights' chocolate patties (solar panels), menthol hard candies (for glass), dried goji berries, slivered almonds, and icing sugar for snow.

Izenville is a city comprising entirely modern, Izen-designed homes, designed to foster communal living and a healthier lifestyle. The city is designed for a sustainable future. All building materials are edible, all waste materials are edible, all goods are purchased for the inhabitants in group purchases from local retailers, and the whole city is equipped with smart technology. This city was assembled digitally from remotely-constructed homes as the construction team is all working from home at this time to keep the city’s inhabitants, as well as the other construction workers, safe.

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Bellwoods Lodge Great Lake Studio (Rick, Maggie & Levi) Do you like this?Like Like 51 people like this. Jane-Exbury Tower Joël León Danis Do you like this?Like Like 411 people like this. Izenville Izen Architecture Do you like this?Like Like 62 people like this. Santa’s Workshop Luke Moss Moulding Do you like this?Like Like 51 people like this. Kings and Queens of the Castle James Mallinson, Elsa Lam and son Do you like this?Like Like 55 people like this. Candy & Light Jocelyn Squires Do you like this?Like Like 115 people like this. Twin House Beatrice D’Angelo Do you like this?Like Like 77 people like this. Tropical Paradise SUMO project Do you like this?Like Like 49 people like this. Better Days Ahead! Yvonne Chan & Katherine Lui Do you like this?Like Like 95 people like this. Ginger Bay-and-Gable Michelle Chan Do you like this?Like Like 279 people like this. Sid Smith Sweet Stack Fac. of Arts & Science, University of Toronto Do you like this?Like Like 342 people like this. GTA Ed.: Mid-Century Holidays Romy Poletti Do you like this?Like Like 153 people like this. Sol-a-bode Lea Wiljer Do you like this?Like Like 170 people like this. Home Alone (& socially distanced) Marie Buban and son Do you like this?Like Like 82 people like this. The Edible Barcelona Pavilion Kurt Kraler Do you like this?Like Like 65 people like this. Together Apart MOSS SUND Architects Do you like this?Like Like 69 people like this. Little boxes made of Ticky Tacky Pamela Bruneau Do you like this?Like Like 54 people like this. Modern Canadian Holiday Cottage Snober Khan & Satesh Lakhan Do you like this?Like Like 126 people like this. Villa Villekulla Herr Nilsson – Leena Sinha & Jutta Brendemuhl Do you like this?Like Like 62 people like this. About this Initiative The Toronto Society of Architects’ Gingerbread City is a unique creative showcase and community building event bringing together architects and gingerbread lovers alike for a little fun and innovative city building all while supporting a good cause. This year’s creations come from across the GTA and have been brought together into a one-of-a-kind virtual exhibition that can be explored from the comfort of your home. This event builds upon the local Annual East End Architects Gingerbread Competition, an event organized by MOSS SUND Architects started in 2017 to bring neighbouring studios together in support of a local charity. Make a Donation: Toronto’s COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Cities, even those made of gingerbread, are stronger when we all look after each other. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all of us, but not equally. Many of our city’s most vulnerable groups and communities have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. This year, if you are able, we would like to encourage all our Gingerbread City visitors to make a donation the City of Toronto’s COVID-19 Relief and Recovery Fund. Funds donated to the City of Toronto’s COVID-19 response will directly contribute to the delivery of vital, community-focused services, both now and during recovery. From food support for the most vulnerable and personal protective equipment for frontline staff to much needed supplies and services for shelters during rapid rehousing, designating your gift allows the City to direct your donation to the highest priority need during this evolving situation. Donate Here **Please note that some of the required fields on this form (Where to Give and Program) have already been filled to ensure that funds go directly to the COVID-19 Relief and Recovery Fund ALL CALLS / COMPETITIONS ONLINE LEARNING LECTURES EXHIBITS FORUMS EVENTS FILMS SYMPOSIUMS PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈 SUGGEST AN EVENT © 2016 Toronto Society of Architects | A Society of the Ontario Association of ArchitectsContact Us Materials include construction gingerbread, royal icing, hard candies melted for the windows, various holiday candies.

I made my entry for people to notice that the house is for Christmas and to just have a bit of wintery fun! This gingerbread house is very yummy and delicious. I think it will last until Friday then it will be gone. I think it will be gone before my Mom's.

Materials include a store bought gingerbread kit with gingerbread, icing, and candies!

This fully edible cookie construction takes inspiration from the Barcelona Pavilion designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich. The floating tahini marble cookie slabs are supported by candy cane columns and sugar glass panes.

Materials include marble swirl cookies with tahini and black cocoa powder, candy canes, melted Jolly Rancher glass panes, royal icing and festive Smarties.

A gingerbread structure loosely inspired by the historic Bodiam Castle in Sussex, England, this design is a geometric composition displaying classical symmetries and hand-built with traditional gingerbread construction materials. Note the distinguishing features of the front tower, drawbridge, and corner turrets. Construction crew on this fast-track project included a very junior apprentice, so please note that execution on some details does not meet the architectural specifications. Senior oversight was also lacking during the completion of the rampart walkways, and some of the construction materials mysteriously disappeared from the site during construction. The junior apprentice comments, in his defense, that the real Bodiam Castle is “all crumbled up” in parts, based on photographic evidence. Soon, this gingerbread castle will be “all crumbled up,” too.

Santa’s Workshop Luke Moss Moulding Do you like this?Like Like 51 people like this. Kings and Queens of the Castle James Mallinson, Elsa Lam and son Do you like this?Like Like 55 people like this. Candy & Light Jocelyn Squires Do you like this?Like Like 115 people like this. Twin House Beatrice D’Angelo Do you like this?Like Like 77 people like this. Tropical Paradise SUMO project Do you like this?Like Like 49 people like this. Better Days Ahead! Yvonne Chan & Katherine Lui Do you like this?Like Like 95 people like this. Ginger Bay-and-Gable Michelle Chan Do you like this?Like Like 279 people like this. Sid Smith Sweet Stack Fac. of Arts & Science, University of Toronto Do you like this?Like Like 342 people like this. GTA Ed.: Mid-Century Holidays Romy Poletti Do you like this?Like Like 153 people like this. Sol-a-bode Lea Wiljer Do you like this?Like Like 170 people like this. Home Alone (& socially distanced) Marie Buban and son Do you like this?Like Like 82 people like this. The Edible Barcelona Pavilion Kurt Kraler Do you like this?Like Like 65 people like this. Together Apart MOSS SUND Architects Do you like this?Like Like 69 people like this. Little boxes made of Ticky Tacky Pamela Bruneau Do you like this?Like Like 54 people like this. Modern Canadian Holiday Cottage Snober Khan & Satesh Lakhan Do you like this?Like Like 126 people like this. Villa Villekulla Herr Nilsson – Leena Sinha & Jutta Brendemuhl Do you like this?Like Like 62 people like this. About this Initiative The Toronto Society of Architects’ Gingerbread City is a unique creative showcase and community building event bringing together architects and gingerbread lovers alike for a little fun and innovative city building all while supporting a good cause. This year’s creations come from across the GTA and have been brought together into a one-of-a-kind virtual exhibition that can be explored from the comfort of your home. This event builds upon the local Annual East End Architects Gingerbread Competition, an event organized by MOSS SUND Architects started in 2017 to bring neighbouring studios together in support of a local charity. Make a Donation: Toronto’s COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Cities, even those made of gingerbread, are stronger when we all look after each other. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all of us, but not equally. Many of our city’s most vulnerable groups and communities have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. This year, if you are able, we would like to encourage all our Gingerbread City visitors to make a donation the City of Toronto’s COVID-19 Relief and Recovery Fund. Funds donated to the City of Toronto’s COVID-19 response will directly contribute to the delivery of vital, community-focused services, both now and during recovery. From food support for the most vulnerable and personal protective equipment for frontline staff to much needed supplies and services for shelters during rapid rehousing, designating your gift allows the City to direct your donation to the highest priority need during this evolving situation. Donate Here **Please note that some of the required fields on this form (Where to Give and Program) have already been filled to ensure that funds go directly to the COVID-19 Relief and Recovery Fund ALL CALLS / COMPETITIONS ONLINE LEARNING LECTURES EXHIBITS FORUMS EVENTS FILMS SYMPOSIUMS PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈 SUGGEST AN EVENT © 2016 Toronto Society of Architects | A Society of the Ontario Association of ArchitectsContact Us Materials include gingerbread (structure), royal icing (mortar), shreddies (windows), jujubes and smarties (decorative flourishes), cashews (more decorative flourishes), pecans (quoining), cranberries (vertical trim), almonds (horizontal trim), candy canes (flags); swedish fish (fish swimming in the moat).

Santa’s Workshop Luke Moss Moulding Do you like this?Like Like 51 people like this. Kings and Queens of the Castle James Mallinson, Elsa Lam and son Do you like this?Like Like 55 people like this. Candy & Light Jocelyn Squires Do you like this?Like Like 115 people like this. Twin House Beatrice D’Angelo Do you like this?Like Like 77 people like this. Tropical Paradise SUMO project Do you like this?Like Like 49 people like this. Better Days Ahead! Yvonne Chan & Katherine Lui Do you like this?Like Like 95 people like this. Ginger Bay-and-Gable Michelle Chan Do you like this?Like Like 279 people like this. Sid Smith Sweet Stack Fac. of Arts & Science, University of Toronto Do you like this?Like Like 342 people like this. GTA Ed.: Mid-Century Holidays Romy Poletti Do you like this?Like Like 153 people like this. Sol-a-bode Lea Wiljer Do you like this?Like Like 170 people like this. Home Alone (& socially distanced) Marie Buban and son Do you like this?Like Like 82 people like this. The Edible Barcelona Pavilion Kurt Kraler Do you like this?Like Like 65 people like this. Together Apart MOSS SUND Architects Do you like this?Like Like 69 people like this. Little boxes made of Ticky Tacky Pamela Bruneau Do you like this?Like Like 54 people like this. Modern Canadian Holiday Cottage Snober Khan & Satesh Lakhan Do you like this?Like Like 126 people like this. Villa Villekulla Herr Nilsson – Leena Sinha & Jutta Brendemuhl Do you like this?Like Like 62 people like this. About this Initiative The Toronto Society of Architects’ Gingerbread City is a unique creative showcase and community building event bringing together architects and gingerbread lovers alike for a little fun and innovative city building all while supporting a good cause. This year’s creations come from across the GTA and have been brought together into a one-of-a-kind virtual exhibition that can be explored from the comfort of your home. This event builds upon the local Annual East End Architects Gingerbread Competition, an event organized by MOSS SUND Architects started in 2017 to bring neighbouring studios together in support of a local charity. Make a Donation: Toronto’s COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Cities, even those made of gingerbread, are stronger when we all look after each other. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all of us, but not equally. Many of our city’s most vulnerable groups and communities have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. This year, if you are able, we would like to encourage all our Gingerbread City visitors to make a donation the City of Toronto’s COVID-19 Relief and Recovery Fund. Funds donated to the City of Toronto’s COVID-19 response will directly contribute to the delivery of vital, community-focused services, both now and during recovery. From food support for the most vulnerable and personal protective equipment for frontline staff to much needed supplies and services for shelters during rapid rehousing, designating your gift allows the City to direct your donation to the highest priority need during this evolving situation. Donate Here **Please note that some of the required fields on this form (Where to Give and Program) have already been filled to ensure that funds go directly to the COVID-19 Relief and Recovery Fund ALL CALLS / COMPETITIONS ONLINE LEARNING LECTURES EXHIBITS FORUMS EVENTS FILMS SYMPOSIUMS PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈 SUGGEST AN EVENT © 2016 Toronto Society of Architects | A Society of the Ontario Association of ArchitectsContact Us This year MOSS SUND’s gingerbread competition theme is Together / Apart. Since creating the gingerbread competition in 2017, it has become a tradition that has brought our office together during the holidays for festive fun and collaboration. Like many other architectural firms this year, we find ourselves working in the safety of our own homes, apart from our colleagues & collaborating virtually - together with each other and our clients - on our wonderful projects. In this spirit, we have each created an object made of birdseed and other edible bird treats that reflect our newfound home work spaces. As the spirit of giving is so important at this of time year, even more so this year because of the pandemic, the Ginger Bird Houses help keep our feathered friends fed and healthy as the cold months approach. We envision birds flying between each of our birdhouses, connecting our homes and each other while we wait for spring. Our entries are all over the map! See if you can find them.

This building is Miguel Fisac’s Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Coronación in Vitoria, Spain, built in 1960. The concept of “home” for me, in this case, means “light”—having trained in both lighting design and architecture, I am passionate about the light in my day-to-day environment, whether as an observer or manipulating it to suit my joy. I love this modernist church and wanted to see if I could recreate its astonishing atmosphere with sugar, gingerbread, and light.

I used the Gingerbread Architect's recipe recommended on the TSA website for almost everything! The windows and belltower are spun sugar (sugar + corn syrup in the microwave). The icing is the royal icing on the TSA website mixed with a little gingerbread batter. Covering everything is a little powdered sugar.

Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky tacky And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same

Materials include gingerbread, royal icing, jelly bellied, coloured wafers, and hard candy

I was inspired by Toronto’s bay-and-gable houses built in pairs (twins!) found all over the city. Twin House is an amalgam of bay-and-gable houses I love to covet on walks in Cabbagetown, Riverdale, and the Annex, with painted façades, renovated backyards with huge windows that are sometimes adorned with rainbows to keep positive for a first (and hopefully last!) holiday season during COVID.

Materials include gingerbread, royal icing, pretzels, Bulk Barn "yummies", and Jolly Ranchers

"As per this year’s theme of ‘Home’ for the 2020 Gingerbread City showcase, inspiration came from the country cottages of Canada set in a rustic atmosphere — the ultimate holiday home. Due to the ongoing pandemic, many are working from home — so is our gingerbread woman, inside her cozy cottage with a huge skylight overlooking a mosaic lit pool. The slanted walls and roof with numerous windows cause a greenhouse effect for the landscape under it. As the TSA recently conducted a webinar on Pet-Friendly design, we decided to incorporate a pet-relief/play/spa area right at the entrance, to make it easily accessible. The Christmas season is incomplete without a fun-filled gingerbread house making session. This will be my first time celebrating Christmas in Canada and our very first gingerbread house! And with this, I complete one of my favourite Christmas rituals! "

Materials include custom made gingerbread with the construction recipe on the TSA competition page, royal icing from a recipe provided by the TSA, candies for stained glass windows, silver balls, coloured chocolate balls (green), blue sugar, chewable gum tablets, black food colouring. Everything in this gingerbread house is edible!

Our idea of home is a world that is in harmony. Where nature and all the wonderful creatures that inhabit it (humans, insects, animals, plants, etc.) are in harmony with each other. Our parents used to say: “if you are OK, I am OK”. We could not be OK if a member of the family was suffering, similarly to the Zulu word “Ubuntu” meaning “a person is a person through other people”. Home is a place like “Ubuntu”, where we are all connected, we all care for each other, we try not to harm any creature nor the earth itself. Because we are all one ecosystem and one world. “Ubuntu” on the earth.

This submission is made of gingerbread only!

Home is like Pippi Longstocking’s Villa Villekulla and like Pippi herself: "cheeky, wild, and wonderful.” We love all the house’s nooks as well as the fun colours, the combination of yellow and pink and green that makes you happy when you come home. And we like the fact that Pippi and her friends, her monkey and her horse hang out outside on the porch all the time, which we have been doing all year. Also, Pippi owns her mess and just has fun! That's why we used everything we could get our hands on and started 2 days before the deadline. It was messy and fun. Every city should have a Villa Villekulla!

Materials include gingerbread, icing, food colouring, icing sugar, Pocky, wafers, bunny grahams, Twizzlers, sugar cookies, candy, gummies, and Lifesavers.

Candy & Light Jocelyn Squires Do you like this?Like Like 115 people like this. Twin House Beatrice D’Angelo Do you like this?Like Like 77 people like this. Tropical Paradise SUMO project Do you like this?Like Like 49 people like this. Better Days Ahead! Yvonne Chan & Katherine Lui Do you like this?Like Like 95 people like this. Ginger Bay-and-Gable Michelle Chan Do you like this?Like Like 279 people like this. Sid Smith Sweet Stack Fac. of Arts & Science, University of Toronto Do you like this?Like Like 342 people like this. GTA Ed.: Mid-Century Holidays Romy Poletti Do you like this?Like Like 153 people like this. Sol-a-bode Lea Wiljer Do you like this?Like Like 170 people like this. Home Alone (& socially distanced) Marie Buban and son Do you like this?Like Like 82 people like this. The Edible Barcelona Pavilion Kurt Kraler Do you like this?Like Like 65 people like this. Together Apart MOSS SUND Architects Do you like this?Like Like 69 people like this. Little boxes made of Ticky Tacky Pamela Bruneau Do you like this?Like Like 54 people like this. Modern Canadian Holiday Cottage Snober Khan & Satesh Lakhan Do you like this?Like Like 126 people like this. Villa Villekulla Herr Nilsson – Leena Sinha & Jutta Brendemuhl Do you like this?Like Like 62 people like this. About this Initiative The Toronto Society of Architects’ Gingerbread City is a unique creative showcase and community building event bringing together architects and gingerbread lovers alike for a little fun and innovative city building all while supporting a good cause. This year’s creations come from across the GTA and have been brought together into a one-of-a-kind virtual exhibition that can be explored from the comfort of your home. This event builds upon the local Annual East End Architects Gingerbread Competition, an event organized by MOSS SUND Architects started in 2017 to bring neighbouring studios together in support of a local charity. Make a Donation: Toronto’s COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Cities, even those made of gingerbread, are stronger when we all look after each other. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all of us, but not equally. Many of our city’s most vulnerable groups and communities have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. This year, if you are able, we would like to encourage all our Gingerbread City visitors to make a donation the City of Toronto’s COVID-19 Relief and Recovery Fund. Funds donated to the City of Toronto’s COVID-19 response will directly contribute to the delivery of vital, community-focused services, both now and during recovery. From food support for the most vulnerable and personal protective equipment for frontline staff to much needed supplies and services for shelters during rapid rehousing, designating your gift allows the City to direct your donation to the highest priority need during this evolving situation. Donate Here **Please note that some of the required fields on this form (Where to Give and Program) have already been filled to ensure that funds go directly to the COVID-19 Relief and Recovery Fund ALL CALLS / COMPETITIONS ONLINE LEARNING LECTURES EXHIBITS FORUMS EVENTS FILMS SYMPOSIUMS PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈 SUGGEST AN EVENT © 2016 Toronto Society of Architects | A Society of the Ontario Association of ArchitectsContact Us This design has two intentions. Firstly, with “Happier days ahead!”, we feature a "vaccination center" (there's a giant needle on top of a house), with socially distanced individuals (Darth Vader included) lining up to get vaccinated (7M so far!). On the other side, the gingerbread and snow people are finally able to hang out with one another mask-free. The second intent reflects the theme of home. We wanted to pay homage to front-line health-care workers who've been working so hard since March, health institutions becoming their homes. The vaccination center has a registration/waiting area, a vaccination room, and most importantly a place to rest during ultra-long shifts. All these rooms have homey touches added to them (check out the wallpaper, plants, and Mondrian's artwork!). We hope this serves as a reminder that our front-line workers are working relentlessly, and reminding us that better days are ahead!

There are no non-edible components (except lighting). Yes, we made a cylindrical gingerbread (it was a challenge). Materials used include gingerbread, melted sugar (for structurally important components), royal icing, candies, chocolates, and one vermicelli noodle. We wired in some micro LED lights inside running along the ceiling of the gingerbread house to brighten it in pictures.