Gallery: A Castle Made of 500,000 Sugar Cubes by 5,000 People

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    The crystalline city is comprised of saccharin spires, high-calorie columns, along with great walls of glucose and is one of the few pieces of art that can expand your mind and give you type 2 diabetes simultaneously.
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    *Sugar Metropolis* is a model of an imaginary city, crafted using ordinary sugar by a swarm of art lovers.
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    Jamison works with a group of collaborators led by Mark Revels (pictured), Mary McCaffrey, Lydia Holmes, and David Turner.
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    He experimented with different kinds of sweets and eventually realized that sugar cubes, with their regular dimensions, pristine color, and brick-like structure, made them the perfect choice to build with.
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    A specially formulated adhesive is used to keep the cubes connected, though Jamison limits its use to non-visible faces so that the individual cubes remain visible in his confectionary castles.
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    A group of retirees constructing a garrison at the first *Sugar Metropolis*.
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    Irish sculptor Brendan Jamison (right) got the idea of using maltose as a muse when he was working on a stop-motion animation that called for candy.
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    "Some members of the public built new designs on their own, other collaborated with friends and family, and others built on top of existing buildings," says Jamison. "This was particularly exciting as it created wonderful hybrid architectural styles."
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    Jamison is raising funds on [Kickstarter](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1527683766/sugar-metropolis-giant-community-sculpture-in-harl) to help bring the Sugar Metropolis to New York City—Harlem's Sugar Hill district to be specific.
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