
I discover new and fabulous buildings all the time all over my home town. My favourites are the art nouveau or jugendstil buildings which are so dominant in central and southern Helsinki. This year’s gingerbread creation is a diminished gingerbread version combining features of two neighbouring houses dating from 1907. They both have beautiful elements of art nouveau architecture including diverse shapes of windows and elaborate and imaginative front doors. The Finnish Jugend facades also often feature asymmetrically placed bay windows, gables, towers and playful decorations. (See below for a link to some fabulous photos.) With more time hopefully next year I might attempt to reconstruct a more ambitious example. 🤔

Helsingin Pietarinkadulla on vuonna 1907 valmistuneet hurmaavat naapuritalot, joista sain inspiraation tämän vuoden piparkakkuteokseeni. Jugend ajan sekalaisen malliset ikkunat, hauskat etuovet, monimuotoiset erkkerit ja tornit sekä mielikuvitukselliset koristeaiheet loivat hurmaavia ja mielenkiintoisia julkisivuja. Sen ajan rapatuissa taloissa suosittiin kellertäviä sekä ruskeaan ja roosaan vivahtavia vaaleita sävyjä. Sininen, harmaa ja vihreä olivat kalliimpia pigmenttejä, joita ei paljonkaan käytetty. Tähän nyt kuitenkin valikoituivat vihreän eri sävyt omien mieltymysteni mukaisesti. Alla kuvassa myös viime vuotinen kutakuinkin ehjänä säilynyt vaaleanpunainen piparkakkufasaadi, jonka mallina oli Annakadun noin kymmenen vuotta vanhempi talo.

✨ Happy New Year! Hyvää Uutta Vuotta! ✨
P.S. Check out some Helsinki eye candy here if you’re a fan of beautiful buildings: https://finland.fi/life-society/admiring-art-nouveau-helsinkis-architectural-eye-candy/
I love your Gingerbread Facades…and thanks so much for the link to the article about the beautiful old buildings in Helsinki – I learned a lot!
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Thank you Kjerstin 😊💐 Glad you found something interesting through the link too. There are over 600 buildings in Helsinki from that era so the article was literally just a scratch of the surface as you may well know? 🌟
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The gingerbread houses are just beautiful. And the details of the houses are charming. Great Christmas feeling!
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Thanks Kirsi for you lovely comment 🥰
Have a great New year! 🎆🎇✨
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Absolutely beautiful! I enjoyed the link, also. People say “cute overload” when something is super adorable, but this would be “charm overload”!
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Happy to hear that 😊
I’m lucky enough to live in the middle of this “charm overload” 🥰 so I’ll have a hard time again next year deciding which one of these beauties I’ll choose as a model!
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