
Via the inestimable
Things Magazine, we are treated to a delightful post-holiday holdover in the carefully juried collection of the finest submissions of confectionary architecture (
see also) competing for top honours in the annual
McGingerbread Hell Awards. McMansions in miniature (
previously) are timid and amateurish transgressions of all the aspects of good design, mass-produced with a clashing of styles, ornament and elements meant to signal wealth and refinement. .