Gingerbread City showcases architect design skills

Popcorn and tentacle at the ready at Chelsea Cinema

Gingerbread is associated with a number of things - Christmas, being an excellent construction tool when erecting giant displays of biscuits when you're a contestant on Great British Bake Off, and the slightly peculiar choice of a couple who wanted to have a son and so baked one for themselves.

And it has another, lesser-known, string to its bow - a medium for architects to show off their design skills.

Gingerbread City has established its urban sprawl at the Gaumont in Chelsea, where it's on display at the Museum of Architecture.

The baked buildings use traditional gingerbread, sweets and icing.

Services are delayed due to icing on the tracks

This year, more than 25 gingerbread structures have been created with the theme of Recycled City, showing examples of buildings and places that have been - or could be - turned into something new and exciting.

They include transformed railways arches, water towers, power stations, disused chapels, factories and shipping containers.

Spitbank Fort has had many iterations - a military defence, a museum and a luxury hotel "with sea views" before it was created in gingerbread

Less tasty but structurally sounder, Spitbank Fort was originally built in the 1860s as a defence against military ships

Organisers have described the exhibition, to which more than 50 designers and architects contributed, as a "magical gingerbread metropolis".

They said it showed how architects and designers could help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems such as climate change, "all through the medium of gingerbread".

It is on display until 29 December.

The workforce could do with a health and safety briefing. Where are the hard hats? The barriers? The hi-vis jackets? The allergy warnings?

Perhaps I can catch you after all, gingerbread man, with your broken leg

A winter ginger wonderland

"Is it a bird? Is it a plane?" No, it's probably just a hyperglycaemic episode

A rather humdrum offering of Battersea Power Station rendered in brick instead of gingerbread