Canstruction 2014: Time to Vote

By Chris von Spiegelfeld • August 25, 2014

This past Saturday, the National Building Museum’s BIG Maze received a new neighbor. Teams of architects converged on the first floor of the museum to assemble their Canstruction out of non-perishable food items. Impressively, like last year, all Canstruction teams finished under Saturday’s afternoon deadline to complete their projects without any major complications.
Currently, there are a combined 28 Canstructions occupying the east side of the museum where they will be on display until September 6. Now teams must turn from Canstruction mode to marketing as they vie for the highly coveted People’s Choice Award.
Canstruction, an annual design competition organized by the Washington Architectural Foundation, has architectural and engineering teams “canstruct” structures out of canned goods. Fans then vote for their favorite canstruction by contributing to the team’s Razoo page or by donating non-perishables to the team’s bin located in the Building Museum. The team with the most “votes” wins the People’s Choice Award. After the event, all contributions, as well as canned goods, are given to the Capital Area Food Bank.
Below are this year’s participants. Click on the thumbnails below to see the project in full detail. Afterward, vote for your favorite canstruction(s) by clicking the link below the thumbnail.

Participants

Note, a few teams are still in the process of setting up their pages. We’ll update the vote links as soon as their page is available.

Markon Solutions Little Red Wagon: Pulling Us Out of Hunger Vote	Page/ Mini Golf Vote	Fentress Architects Don’t Skate Past Hunger Vote	Hartman-Cox Architects Nipping Hunger in the Spud Vote
SmithgroupJJR / Hitt Contracting Stacking the Pantry Vote	WDG Architecture Meals Shouldn’t Be Hit or Miss Vote	The Associated General Contractors of Metro DC Young Constructors Forum Nutrition is the Golden Ticket Vote	Dewberry CAN-DEE-Land Vote
McKissack & McKissack “The CANtraption” Vote	HKS Architects CANimal Cracker Box: The Great Escape Vote	ABC Metro Washington Student Chapter (MC SCA) The LinCAN Logs Vote	MV + A ‘IRON Out’ Hunger Vote
Cooper Carry Ima Gonna Win Against Hungah! Vote	Wiencek + Associates Architects + Planners CAN’t Go Hungry Hippo Vote	Barnes Vanze Architects, Inc. Checkmate Hunger Vote	Sorg Architechts Green Giant’s Cornado Vote
CannonDesign To Eat or Not to Eat… Vote	Lee & McShane, PC Strike Out Hunger Vote	The SK&A Group Together We Win – United We Eat Vote	Perkins + Will Eat, Play, Work – CAN Dispensers for the Washingtonian Vote
Stantec Don’t Clown Around With Hunger! Vote	Skansa USA Pac-Man: Take a Bit Out of Hunger Vote	R2L Architects It’s PLINKO! Vote	URS Corporation CAN We Play a Little Longer? Vote
EYP Can of Fortune! Vote	WNUK SPURLOCK Architecture / Keast & Hood Structural Engineers Lego My Eggo Vote	Michael Baker International CANopy House Vote	HDR Architecture Hail to the Red Beans! Vote