Uniondale, NY - November 19, 2014 - On October 23, the winners of Canstruction® Long Island 2014’s annual design competition were announced at its awards reception held at RXR Plaza in Uniondale. Eight teams of architects, engineers, designers, contractors, vendors, students and community groups built colossal structures made entirely of cans of food, which were given to Long Island Cares, the Harry Chapin Food Bank along with $2,500 in cash donations.
This year’s structures consisted of 27,129 cans, totaling almost 20,000 pounds of food. The teams raised over $32,000 in order to purchase the cans for their structures. Additional donations from the public brought the total to 28,052 cans of food which will provide 16,070 meals to Long Islanders in need.
The winning structures for 2014 are:
Professional Teams:
Most Cans:
Structure Title: “Hunger Stops at the PumpCAN Patch”
Team Name: LKB Consulting Engineers
Total Cans: 6,772
# Meals: 3,157
Juror’s Favorite:
Structure Title: “Oh Foodles!”
Team Name: Lines & Designs 3-D, LLC and Social Harmony
Total Cans: 5,376
# Meals: 2,736
Best Use of Labels:
Structure Title: “Hunger Stops at the PumpCAN Patch”
Team Name: LKB Consulting Engineers
Total Cans: 6,772
# Meals: 3,157
Structural Ingenuity:
Structure Title: “Oh Foodles!”
Team Name: Lines & Designs 3-D, LLC and Social Harmony
Total Cans: 5,376
# Meals: 2,736
Best Meal:
Structure Title: “Hunger Stops at the PumpCAN Patch”
Team Name: LKB Consulting Engineers
Total Cans: 6,772
# Meals: 3,157
Honorable Mention:
Structure Title: “COWABUNGA! Let's Stop Hunger Dude!”
Team Name: H2M architects + engineers
Total Cans: 4,150
# Meals: 2,144
People’s Choice:
Structure Title: “Oh Foodles!”
Team Name: Lines & Designs 3-D, LLC and Social Harmony
Total Cans: 5,376
# Meals: 2,736
Other Participating Professional Teams:
Structure Title: “Beats Hunger”
Team Name: Wiedersum Associates Architects
Total Cans: 3,562
# Meals: 1,687
Structure Title: “Lookout for Hunger”
Team Name: B. Thayer Associates
Total Cans: 1,724
# Meals: 1,282
Student Teams:
Most CANtabulous (Juror’s Favorite):
Structure Title: “Let’s Erase Hunger”
Team Name: Temple Sinai of Roslyn Youth Group
Total Cans: 1,660
# Meals: 1,228
Best CANcept (Best Use of Labels):
Structure Title: “We CAN Solve World Hunger”
Team Name: Sacred Heart Academy
Total Cans: 1,485
# Meals: 1,101
Best CANfiguration (Structural Ingenuity):
Structure Title: “I Nominate You to Fight Hunger!”
Team Name: Friends Academy
Total Cans: 2,400
# Meals: 2,104
Most CANtastic (Best Meal):
Structure Title: “We CAN Solve World Hunger”
Team Name: Sacred Heart Academy
Total Cans: 1,485
# Meals: 1,101
Over the past eight years, Canstruction® Long Island’s annual design competition has raised over $385,000 to purchase and collectively donate over 290,000 cans of food representing more than 115 tons of food providing more than 190,000 meals for hungry Long Islanders.
“Every year we are astounded at the creativity and ingenuity displayed by the professional and student teams alike to create these amazing structures,” said Tracy Lobdell, Executive Director, Canstruction® Long Island. “The discipline and drive to fundraise and collect the tremendous number of cans needed to build their designs is a credit to the determination of these teams to help their fellow Long Islanders fight hunger.”
The exhibit, located at RXR Plaza in Uniondale, was open to the public every day from Friday, October 24 through Thursday, November 5. The cost of admission was a can of food, which visitors used to cast their vote for the People’s Choice Award.
For more information about participating in or sponsoring Canstruction® Long Island, please visit the website.
