DECORATING CAKES: ARCHITECTURE VS DESIGN

Everyone who has good taste loves cake, and everyone who has good design taste loves a well-designed cake. When it comes to cake design, we already have preconceived notions of what the cake is for based on the colors and style. A white tiered cake for weddings, a colorful character cake for a kid’s birthday, an armadillo for a grooms cake (thanks Steel Magnolias), and much more. Cake designers put so much time into the details on the cakes – the roses, the fondant, the gold leaf – because that is the first thing people see.

However, no matter how beautiful a cake looks, no one will eat it if it tastes horrible.

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Designing a building only for the façade is like decorating a tasteless cake. We can dress it up, cover it in colorful cladding, even add gold leaf, but it will still be a tasteless building if the interior is not considered. Architecture is not about designing only the façade; it is about creating a great experience in both interior and exterior applications. When we focus solely on the building skin, we become exterior designers – not architects.

RAINDROP CAKE

BMW BUBBLE BUILDING

Let’s not design the cake, let’s make it.