The Ultimate Gingerbread Architectural Style Guide
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It’s time to turn on the twinkly lights and invite friends and family over to celebrate. This year, why not follow your sweet tooth, while showing off your favorite era of architectural history? We’ve assembled the ultimate collection of gingerbread architecture examples spanning major American architectural styles.
photo by: Hyperspace Baltimore BCT Architects
Baltimore basics: Hyperspace, an office furniture showroom in Baltimore, hosted a gingerbread compitition last year that yielded a sweet representation of the Domino Sugar Factory by BCT Architects.
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Baltimore basics: Instructables user kitchentablescraps, who has been through architecture and pastry school, offers up a step-by-step guide and template to create a Baltimore-style gingerbread brownstone.
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Urban factories and storefronts (1880-1930): Bendel Store in gingerbread by Sweet Lisa's.
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Gothic Revival (1840-1900): Gothic Revival gingerbread church by Becky Stella.
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Georgian Style (1714-1830): Georgian gingerbread church by Peggy Butler.
photo by: Design Salad
Early Colonial/Rural Tradework (pre-1700s): Tradework Colonial gingerbread house.
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Tudor Revival Style (1880-1930): Tudor Revival Style gingerbread house.
photo by: The Oklahoman
Pueblo Revival (1880-1930): Pueblo Revival gingerbread house.
photo by: Inhabitat
Urban factories and storefronts (1880-1930): Killough's Music in North Carolina by Kelsey Sewell.
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Modern (1920-1960): Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in gingerbread by Tsontakis Architecture with Classic Cakes and Confections.
photo by: Life Without Buildings
Brutalism (1950-1970): The Tate Modern in gingerbread by Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreaves.
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