Gingerbread houses 2010
Gingerbread houses 2010
This year the Swedish Museum of Architecture's annual gingerbread house exhibition features 95 entries. See photos of all the entries here
This year's winners were announced on Sunday December 12.
The theme of 2010 is:
“I’m home now” – on feeling at home or being rootless.
Home can be a safe haven to which you return each day, a place far away or a longing for something unachievable. What is home to you?
This year’s theme is about something that is central to all of us. We build and care for and love our homes. We see our homes as a human right. Yet there are many people who do not have a home or who have been forced to leave their home and to search for a new one.
As usual, there is no limit as to how the theme can be interpreted. All the entries will be displayed at the Museum of Architecture.
Competition
Competitors will be divided into three groups:
• Architects and professional bakers
• Children up to the age of 12
• Everyone else who bakes
A winner from each category will be elected by a Jury.
Between 1 December and 10 December the public can vote for their favourite entry either at the museum or here.
Prizes will be presented to the winners on 12 December at 2pm at the Museum of Architecture.
THE EXHIBITION
The exhibition will open on 1 December 2010 and the entries will remain on show until 9 January 2011.
THE JURY
Jan Hedh
chocolate connoisseur, master pastry cook, author and world championship medallist. Member of the Skåneland Gastronomic Academy.
Rachid Lestaric
architect, nominated for the Swedish concrete industry’s prize Årets betongarkitekt 2010 and to the interior design prize Guldstolen 2010.
Lena Josefsson
chair of the Friends of Moderna museet, art collector and patron of the arts.
Sandra Axell
project manager at Stadsmissionen [Stockholm City Welfare Mission]. Loves both edible and non-edible creative domestic activities. She started a club for such activities six years ago.
Lena Rahoult
Director of the Swedish Museum of Architecture. Previous work as archive manager, designer and exhibition producer. Francophile with a love of antique fabrics.
COMPÈRE
Farzad Farzaneh
well-known from a children’s TV programme and as creator of a summer café in the Skinnarvik Park in Stockholm.
DJs
Greg & Jamie Fitzpatrick
Greg started out as a street and studio musician. In the 1980s he was known in Stockholm as Mr. Synt from creating the sound of synth-based group Adolphson & Falk.