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Seung Mee Choi, assistant pastry chef, left, and Alice Leich, executive pastry chef, both of Parkhurst Dining at the Carnegie Museums, watch as the Loysen   Kreuthmeier Architects/Prantl's Bakery team builds "Fallingwater" an edible cake.
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The Carnegie's CAKEitecture: Building cakes, and a fan base

Rebecca Droke/Post-Gazette

The Carnegie's CAKEitecture: Building cakes, and a fan base

The Carnegie has hit upon a successful new marketing gimmick: free food.

At its CAKEitecture event last weekend, staffers stopped counting when the crowd reached 2,000. Jonathan Gaugler, media relations manager, said the staff thinks the party may well have been the museum's best-attended after-hours event in its history.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Heinz Architectural Center, The Carnegie paired five architectural firms with local bakeries to design architecture-themed cakes (see here: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/life/food-column/food-column-let-them-build-cake-then-eat-it-673728/). Subjects ranged from the local (Fallingwater, East Liberty's Motor Square Garden, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood) to the international (the Sydney Opera House and a modernist house in Holland).

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The judges' favorite was Fallingwater, designed by Loysen + Kreuthmeier Architects and Prantl's Bakery. The people's choice, a Mister Rogers' Neighborhood/Pittsburgh mash-up by the Young Architects Forum and Dozen Bake Shop, even included a running trolley.

But the free cake and ice cream weren't the only draw. The cakes were housed in the museum's Hall of Architecture, but the crowd also spilled upstairs for a video presentation and exhibition celebrating the architectural center's birthday -- and folks seemed as enthusiastic upstairs as down.

"We were thrilled and happy that so many people got so excited about it," Mr. Gaugler said.

First Published: February 14, 2013, 10:00 a.m.

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Seung Mee Choi, assistant pastry chef, left, and Alice Leich, executive pastry chef, both of Parkhurst Dining at the Carnegie Museums, watch as the Loysen Kreuthmeier Architects/Prantl's Bakery team builds "Fallingwater" an edible cake.  (Rebecca Droke/Post-Gazette)
Megan Hart, left, Alice Leich and Patrick Ellis look at "It's a Delicious Day in the Neighborhood!," an edible cake made for CAKEitecture, Heinz Architectural Center's 20th anniversary celebration, at Carnegie Museum of Art on Saturday. Dozen Bakeshop, where Ms. Hart is head cake designer and Mr. Ellis is assistant cake designer, teamed up with the Young Architects Forum to create their Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood-themed cake.  (Rebecca Droke/Post-Gazette)
"East End AAA," created by Perkins Eastman/Madison Ave.  (Rebecca Droke/Post-Gazette)
Megan Hart, head cake designer at Dozen Bakeshop, creates Queen Sarah Saturday, a character from the Land of the Maple Leaf, for a Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood themed cake.  (Rebecca Droke/Post-Gazette)
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