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Description: Architects Changed Traditional Building Materials For Sugar& Spice To Build Edible Gingerbread City Firms including Foster and Partners and Zaha Hadid went about crafting more than 60 miniature structures in incredible detail, using an array of sweet ingredients including liquorice, Jelly Babies and icing. The designs range from futuristic tower blocks to sports facilities and Holland Harvey Architects went about crafting a modern homeless shelter. The baking initiative is part of an annual exhibition curated by London's Museum of Architecture and on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Architects swapped traditional building materials for sugar and spice to create an edible gingerbread city of the future at London’s V&A Museum, to show that urban planning can be fun, and tasty. The annual exhibition, which is put together by London’s Museum of Architecture, runs from Dec. 8 to Jan. 6 and showcases buildings by architects, designers and engineers who had been asked to create a sustainable and inclusive city of the future. “We design and we work a lot in model making, and at this scale as well,” said Robert Nolan, an architect at APT. “If you can see yourself having fun with just gingerbread and then transplant that to something a bit more realistic, actually it’s not too far off and actually design is fun.” More than 60 structures have been baked and the city features a cable car made of liquorice, and cycle lanes and pedestrian route made entirely of sugar, while Holland Harvey Architects designed a modern homeless shelter.