If last-minute is your signature style for the holiday season, here's a crafty idea from a fellow designer that you can use to impress your guests or as a fun family-friendly activity. Robert Christo is a Brooklyn-based architect who enjoys building gingerbread houses with his family during this time of year. He decided to take the well-loved pastime a step further and draw some IKEA-like architectural drawings for a Gingerbread Village. With some frosting, a good amount of gingerbread, and whatever sweet edibles you need, use Christo's handy instructions as a guide to assemble your own festive town, including homes, shops, village green, a schoolhouse, and sledding hill. (Hopefully you won't need an Allen wrench in the process.)
Update: Robert Christo shared a few more drawings he sketched.
To zoom in on the drawings, click here.
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This looks great, though the urban design concept needs work... presumably that's an option. Nice drawings!
eggnog or vodka for the pond?
Gingerbread Schnapps
I'm so pleased that this type of architectural drawing is back in vogue again. So legible.
Bourbon in the pond, of course.
Made in Revit?
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