Gingerbread City showcases architect design skills

Gingerbread is associated with a number of things - Christmas, being an excellent construction tool when erecting giant displays of biscuits when you're a contestant on Great British Bake Off, and the slightly peculiar choice of a couple who wanted to have a son and so baked one for themselves.

And it has another, lesser-known, string to its bow - a medium for architects to show off their design skills.

Gingerbread City has established its urban sprawl at the Gaumont in Chelsea, where it's on display at the Museum of Architecture.

The baked buildings use traditional gingerbread, sweets and icing.

This year, more than 25 gingerbread structures have been created with the theme of Recycled City, showing examples of buildings and places that have been - or could be - turned into something new and exciting.

They include transformed railways arches, water towers, power stations, disused chapels, factories and shipping containers.

Organisers have described the exhibition, to which more than 50 designers and architects contributed, as a "magical gingerbread metropolis".

They said it showed how architects and designers could help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems such as climate change, "all through the medium of gingerbread".

It is on display until 29 December.

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