For the last 17 years, Canstruction has been a gem among gems when it comes to charity projects. Their website describes what the Canstruction project is all about:
"A foundation of the Society for Design Administration (SDA), Canstruction® is a Trademarked design/build competition currently held in cities throughout North America and Australia, and cities from around the world will soon be participating. Teams of architects, engineers, and students mentored by these professionals compete to design and build giant structures made entirely from full cans of food. It takes 8-12 weeks and thousands of cans of food to create a structure."
Teams can use cans of food and a limited number of other items (of which adhesives are decidedly NOT one) to create these structures. And it not only looks cool: every last can goes to a food charity. A lot cooler than just bringing non-perishable foods in a brown paper bag...that's all I'm capable of doing.
This month, the World Financial Center Winter Garden in lower Manhattan, just like every year, is hosting the Canstruction exhibit in New York City. Every year since my brother moved to New York, his firm (Platt Byard Dovell White Architects) has been crowned for its creativity, after pulling all-nighters to piece the work together can by can. This year was no exception, with a trio of 'shrooms straight out of Super Mario 64 taking the blue ribbon for "Best Structural Ingenuity":
Kudos, broseph.
More Canstruction projects can be found on this Gothamist post.
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