Gingerbread City returns for 2024!
Gingerbread City is now open to visitors. The Museum of Architecture’s Gingerbread City is a celebration of place. It is intended to get people who may not normally spend much time thinking about the built environment to engage with the challenges of creating good places that best support how we live, work and play.
This year’s theme is ‘Recycled City’ - focussing on re-imagining urban spaces by re-using land, buildings, and materials to create inspiring environments for living, working, and playing.
Development within our plot follows the principles of Repurpose, Retrofit and Regeneration. Our approach focusses on reuse and recycling, and demonstrates how existing structures, buildings, and brownfield sites can be innovatively adapted to meet evolving community needs and planning policy aspirations.
Our plot features four distinct elements:
Candy Church Leisure Centre – the retrofitting of an historic church into a leisure centre, respecting the building’s heritage while providing a space for fitness, wellness and community activities; Sugarloaf Lofts – a former warehouse repurposed for housing, utilising renewable materials, reflecting the adaptability of industrial architecture for contemporary needs; Ginger Mill hub – a disused factory transformed into a mixed-use hub featuring co-working spaces, artisanal shops and cafes; and The Snowman’s Square – a regenerated brownfield site providing a communal space for social engagement and sustainable travel.
The Recycled City illustrates how thoughtful design can connect the past with the present. Our design creates a dynamic, urban environment that promotes heritage conservation, sustainable design and fosters a vibrant community, where the vision of a truly circular urban development is brought to life.
Tibbalds has also assisted in the production of activity packs, seeking to inspire children and young adults to think about issues we are facing in the built environment, the benefits of repurposing existing buildings, and the role adaptive reuse can play in solving today’s environmental challenges.
The exhibition is open now, until 29th December 2024. It is located at the newly re-purposed building, The Gaumont, in Chelsea on the King’s Road. To purchase tickets and find out more about the event, visit www.thegingerbreadcity.com
The exhibition also features on the BBC and Associates Press News:
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