Video: The most unusual examples of edible architecture
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Of course, people need food primarily to maintain the vital functions of the body. For some, for pleasure. And some - for creativity. The heroes of our today's article combined food and construction, thus creating amazing examples edible architecture … Sculptor Roger Pelcher (Roger Pelcher) built the world's largest gingerbread house in 2006. For the construction of the sweet structure, the author needed more than 6 tons of gingerbread and about 2 tons of glaze. The amount of time spent on the construction of the house-record holder is also impressive - 1,700 hours.
Chinese author Song Dong he built a model of an entire Asian city with a church and a stadium out of biscuits and biscuits. The piece, which took 72,000 sweets to create, was exhibited at London's Selfridges department store.
Another model of the city was created by the efforts of the students of the University of Toronto under the guidance of professional architects and engineers. The main "building material" is canned food and packaging with cereals.
No one creates edible landscapes as well as they do Karl Warner (Carl Warner). From fruits, vegetables, cheese, meat and other products, the photographer manages to recreate landscapes so realistic that you would never guess at first glance that they are not real!
In 2008, the Architectural Jelly Banquet was held in London, during which architects and sculptors competed to create original buildings and structures from jelly. In the image you can see a British copy of St Paul's Cathedral. Douglas Murphy (Douglas Murphy).
Liz Haycock (Liz Hickok) also works with jelly: her translucent multi-colored cities, illuminated by soft light, seem to be illustrations for a fairy tale.
Prudence Emma State (Prudence Emma Staite) took pizza dough as a building material and built a replica of the Roman Colosseum.
For a pastry chef Mike McCarey it's not a problem to make a cake in the form of anything, including an architectural structure. A famous landmark or a fairytale house - it all depends on the wishes of the clients and the imagination of the author.
Unknown masters of Photoshop decided to fantasize about edible cities. I must admit, fruit and vegetable houses made on a computer look very, very attractive. Maybe you should try to design something similar in real life?
In the Ukrainian Kolomyia in 2000 the Easter Egg Museum was built. Not only is the museum of such a plan - the only one in the world, but also its building is decorated in the form of a huge painted egg.
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