{"id":159771,"date":"2016-11-24T14:15:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T19:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/?p=159771"},"modified":"2024-02-19T02:14:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T07:14:12","slug":"architects-sheraton-seattle-hotel-gingerbread-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/archives\/architects-sheraton-seattle-hotel-gingerbread-village","title":{"rendered":"Architects team up with Sheraton Seattle Hotel for 24th annual Gingerbread Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id='pressboard-ad-sponsorship-tag' style='margin-bottom: 35px;'><\/h4><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gingerbread-village-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[159771]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gingerbread-village-1.jpg\" alt=\"gingerbread village 1\" width=\"591\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Photo: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sheratonseattlehotel\/\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sheraton Seattle Hotel\/Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seattle&#8217;s<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a024th annual <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gingerbreadvillage.org\/\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gingerbread Village<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is here. The popular event is a collaboration between top local architects and chefs at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, and this year they&#8217;ve teamed up to build majestic wizardry-themed gingerbread masterpieces.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/\">Skanska<\/a>, participating architects and builders include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/architect\/ankrom-moisan\">Ankrom Moisan<\/a>, MBAKS &amp; Gelotte Hommas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/architect\/mg2\">MG2<\/a>, Bailly &amp; Bailly, 4D Architects and\u00a0CallisonRTKL\u00a0&amp; Hargis.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Their large-scale Harry Potter-inspired creations will be on display\u00a0in the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheratonseattle.com\/gingerbread-village\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sheraton Seattle Hotel&#8217;s lobby<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0from now until\u00a0January 1st, and visitors will have the chance to vote for their favorite concept.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gingerbread-village-2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[159771]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gingerbread-village-2.jpg\" alt=\"gingerbread village 2\" width=\"456\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Photo: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sheratonseattlehotel\/\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sheraton Seattle Hotel\/Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Staff at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel\u00a0donate over 7,000 volunteer hours for this event. The displays use over 1,200 pounds of dough, 800 pounds of icing, 200 pounds of white chocolate, 250 pounds of almond paste and hundreds of pounds of candy. You may be wondering if you can eat the gingerbread structures when the event ends. The answer is no. After six weeks, the sweet buildings are rendered inedible, so enjoy them with your eyes while they last!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gingerbread-village-3.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[159771]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gingerbread-village-3.jpg\" alt=\"gingerbread village 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Photo: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sheratonseattlehotel\/\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sheraton Seattle Hotel\/Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Gingerbread Village\u00a0is free, but a $5 donation per person is recommended. All proceeds will\u00a0benefit the Northwest Chapter of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=Juvenile+Diabetes+Research+Foundation+(JDRF)+Northwest+Chapter&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enCA690CA691&amp;oq=Juvenile+Diabetes+Research+Foundation+(JDRF)+Northwest+Chapter&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation<\/a>, which funds research to cure type 1 diabetes and its complications. The event\u00a0has raised more than $841,000 for the foundation\u00a0over the past 20 years.<\/p>\n<div id='pressboard-ad-sponsorship-msg'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top local architects have designed this year&#8217;s wizardry-themed gingerbread creations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":159772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11269],"tags":[],"coauthors":[8840],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - 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