KMD Architects, a San Francisco-based architecture firm with an award-winning international practice in architecture planning and urban design, has abandoned its seasoned mediums of glass and steel for child's play and sugar (something I'm a big fan of). That's right, KMD recently constructed Chinese New Year, a dynamic gingerbread version of San Francisco's famed Chinatown Gate, for Seattle's Gingerbread Village, a gingerbread collective meant to raise awareness about juvenile diabetes.
The Stranger, a Seattle newspaper, calls the details of this sugary Chinatown Gate impressive: "The scales of the dragon are made from chocolate coins; the spines on its back are a line of Hershey's Kisses; the roof of the Chinatown gate is tiled with dark-green jelly beans."
