Architectural landmarks recreated using jelly
Some of the world's most famous landmarks have been recreated in jelly by leading architects.
Gelatinous creations have been entered into a bizarre contest by top designers includung Sir Norman Foster, Wil Alsop and Lord Richard Rogers.
Ten shortlisted entries will go on show at the ‘Architectural Jelly Banquet’ at University College London tomorrow night.
The event - the climax of London Festival of Architecture - will see the judging of the jellies which will be done on the criteria of innovation, aesthetics and wobble factor.
Other goings-on at the banquet where guests will arrive dressed as desserts will be jelly wrestling and "bespoke wobbling soundscapes and projections,” whatever that is.
Professor Stephen Gage (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) who is one of the judges, said: “As babies, we first learn about our world by touching it and putting bits of it in our mouth. Part of our subconscious appreciation of shape may well be a dim memory of how it might feel in our mouth.
"Thus, a dome is round and coolly satisfying, while a pointed building is like a sharp and dangerous knife. Jelly architecture returns architecture to the mouth, where we can once again taste it.”
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