Gingerbread city returns to London with ‘Recycled’ theme

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Gingerbread city returns to London with ‘Recycled’ theme  'Gingerbread City' returns to London for its annual run with the theme of 'Recycled City on Nov. 28, 2024. The 'Recycled City' is made out of gingerbread, icing and sweets, and this year's edition was all about re-using existing buildings, as the chairman of The Museum of Architecture, Rob Fiehn, pointed out.  The exhibition, being held at The Gaumont in Chelsea, will be open to the public from Nov. 30 to Dec. 29.  REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe    Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes #tmtnews #london #gingerbreadcity

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00:00Thank you for having me.

00:02Yeah.

00:07And, um, I think you should, I think,

00:10I'm going to be able to do this.

00:12Yeah.

00:13Also, don't be, yes, I'm not,

00:15because it's, I mean, really hard.

00:17I mean, we're, I don't, we just can't.

00:21Yeah.

00:22Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:23Simple.

00:25Yeah.

00:27Yeah.

00:38Thank you for choosing influenza.

00:52There is a booming business in architecture in reusing existing buildings and this is

01:10really important because if you demolish a building and you build a new one it takes

01:15a huge amount of carbon which is really bad for the environment. So we wanted to creatively

01:20inspire people and show them how we can reuse existing buildings and also sometimes much

01:26loved buildings which are kind of iconic on the landscape.

01:39The main building is a circular building so trying to recreate that out of gingerbread

01:42was quite challenging but a fun fact behind the scenes was that we actually used an old

01:46leftover piece of metal ductwork from a building site to bake our gingerbread around it to

01:51get that kind of circular shape.

02:18So we've got very structurally sound icing holding the whole thing together and it's

02:22pretty robust and the gingerbread itself is very structurally sound as well. It doesn't

02:27taste very nice but it stays up for a whole month.

02:31So that's the tower and the trunk. This is the row which is the one that I described

02:37of done by my team mate Alex. We know there is going to be a light there so we are also

02:44recycling the old model that we made for Gingerbread City last year. We break it into

02:50different pieces and make it into part of the model for this year.

03:04The super strong gingerbread so it's not very tasty but I did try eating it. It's very difficult

03:10to bite it.

03:17The gingerbread itself can't be reused but we are going to throw it into organic waste

03:23so it will go back into the system and then the exhibition plinths and the boxes they

03:31can all be reused in the future. So the reuse element is the display equipment.

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