http://casasugar.com/ Home sweet home. en http://casasugar.com/872171 <!-- no strip poll --><div id="epoll-view-872171"></div><script type="text/javascript">new Ajax.Request('/epoll/view/872171',{method:'get',onSuccess:function(transport){var epoll=$('epoll-view-872171');epoll.update(transport.responseText);}});</script><noscript><p><p>For some imperceptible reason, a few weeks ago I decided to challenge my office to a gingerbread house-making challenge, a "Gingerbread-Off," if you will. Turns out getting my walls and roof to stand on their own was not an easy feat, and suddenly memories of disastrous gingerbread houses from my youth rushed back to me. It was a fun weekend activity though, and I was excited to see what my coworkers had come up with. To be honest, I have to admit that I definitely had my butt kicked. <span class="inline center"><img src="http://images.teamsugar.com/files/users/6/61259/50_2007/gingerbreadhouses.preview.jpg" alt="" title="" class="outline image preview" height="550" width="442"></span> To find out which house truly takes the cake, please let us know which is your favorite. From top left, I went for a New Orleans style shot-gun house; PartySugar created <a href="http://yumsugar.com/872444" rel="nofollow">a snowy log-cabin</a>; PopSugar replicated <a href="http://teamsugar.com/user/brian/album/867853" rel="nofollow">Britney Spears' estate</a>; BuzzSugar channeled <a href="http://buzzsugar.com/872001" rel="nofollow">Dr. House</a>; and YumSugar fashioned a mid-century modern ranch.</p> </p><!-- no strip poll --><form action="/872171" method="post" id="epoll_view_voting"> <div><div class="poll"> <div class="vote-form"> <div class="choices"><div class="form-item"> <label>Which Sugar Gingerbread House Is Your Favorite?</label> <div class="form-item"> <label class="option"><input type="radio" name="edit[choice]" value="0" class="form-radio" /> CasaSugar's New Orleans-style Shot Gun</label> </div> <div class="form-item"> <label class="option"><input type="radio" name="edit[choice]" value="1" class="form-radio" /> PartySugar's Snowy Log Cabin</label> </div> <div class="form-item"> <label class="option"><input type="radio" name="edit[choice]" value="2" class="form-radio" /> PopSugar's Britney Spears' Estate</label> </div> <div class="form-item"> <label class="option"><input type="radio" name="edit[choice]" value="3" class="form-radio" /> BuzzSugar's Dr. Gingerbread House</label> </div> <div class="form-item"> <label class="option"><input type="radio" name="edit[choice]" value="4" class="form-radio" /> YumSugar's Mid-Century Modern Ranch</label> </div> </div> </div><input type="hidden" name="edit[nid]" id="edit-nid" value="872171" /> <input type="submit" name="op" value="Vote" class="form-submit" /> </div><input type="hidden" name="edit[form_id]" id="edit-form_id" value="epoll_view_voting" /> </div> </div></form> <!-- no strip poll --></noscript><!-- no strip poll --> http://casasugar.com/872171#comment Casa Poll gingerbread house Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:30:00 -0800 casasugar http://casasugar.com/872171 http://casasugar.com/845691 <p><a href="http://www.kmdarchitects.com/" target="_blank">KMD Architects</a>, 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.<br /> <span class="inline center"><img src="http://images.teamsugar.com/files/users/6/61259/48_2007/vig-2-480.jpg" alt="" title="" class="outline image preview" height="406" width="480"></span><br /> <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=445280" target="_blank">The Stranger</a>, a Seattle newspaper, calls the details of this sugary Chinatown Gate impressive:<br /> <blockquote>"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." </p></blockquote> <p>I'm both impressed and intimidated, because I'm about to embark on my own gingerbread-house-making adventurel. YumSugar is hosting a <a href="http://yumsugar.com/824036" >Gingerbread House Challenge</a> through Dec. 18. If you're up for it, I'd love to see what sweet skills all you Casa readers have up your sleeves. Get on over there and show us your goodies. <p> <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/" target="_blank">Source</a></p> http://casasugar.com/845691#comment architecture chinatown deck the haus gingerbread gingerbread house kmd architects san francisco Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:15:55 -0800 casasugar http://casasugar.com/845691