Winners of the 2014 Canstruction®Orange County Design/Build Competition Revealed
COSTA MESA, CA [September 28, 2014] – The OC Food Bank is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Canstruction Orange County competition that brought together nineteen local architectural, engineering, and design teams to create phenomenal structures built entirely out of canned food. The structures are on display at South Coast Plaza in conjunction with the Festival of Children.
“This year we had the best teams and all-star judges coming together to help the OC Food Bank,” said Betsy Nickless, Canstruction Orange County Event Co-Chair. “The winning teams really did a wonderful job of creatively using thousands of cans to build an interesting sculpture from every angle.”The following Canstruction winners were decided by a panel of judges comprised of Afshan Afshar, AIA Orange County; Dwight Detter, Whole Foods Market; Wing Lam, Wahoo’s Fish Taco; Anita Lau – diary of a Mad Hungry Woman; and Kyle Patterson, J.L. Patterson & Associates.
HONORABLE MENTION – BASSENIAN | LAGONI ARCHITECTS: “ORANGEYou Glad We Are Helping to End Hunger?” (Total Cans: 2,332) is a giant orange with leaves created from teabags in green packets.
HONORABLE MENTION – CH2M Hill: “Get your Fill with Tetris” (Total Cans: 3,318) is a 10’-high Gameboy with Tetris on the screen.
HONORABLE MENTION – Disneyland Resort, Design & Engineering: “Melt Away Hunger” (4,932) depicts Olaf from the movie, Frozen.
MOST CANS – SVA Architects: “Don’t Let Hunger Drag-On” (Total Cans: 5,680) was inspired by How to Train Your Dragon.
BEST MEAL – Fluor: “Our LEGOcy to Children” (Total Cans: 5,258) shows giant Lego figures packing food boxes.
STRUCTURAL INGENUITY – Gregg Maedo + Associates: “CANzillaDestroys Hunger” (Total Cans: 2,710) depicts a 10’-high Godzilla destroying a city plagued with hunger.
BEST USE OF LABELS – Jacobs: “We Refuse to be ‘Koi’ About Hunger” (Total Cans: 2,519) is a 10’-long colorful Koi fish.
JURY’S FAVORITE – McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.: “Changing the Face of Hunger” (Total Cans: 2,315) used Leseur silver canned peas and beans to create a giant head with a hidden heart.
PEOPLE’S CHOICE – Fluor: “Our LEGOcy to Children” (Total Cans: 5,258)
At the completion of the exhibition on September 28th, all of the cans will be donated to the OC Food Bank. This year’s donations will allow the OC Food Bank to provide 233,840 meals to low-income Orange County residents. “Canstruction not only fights hunger by creating beautiful sculptures that will feed thousand of hungry families, but also allows the OC Food Bank to shine light on Orange County’s current hunger crisis,” said Mark Lowry, Director of the OC Food Bank. “Hunger and poverty are huge issues nation wide,and we are grateful to all the participants for helping us raise awareness and donating nutritious shelf-stable food items for families, children, and seniors in need.”
To teach children about the local fight to end hunger, the Festival of Children is also encouraging children to bring in a can of food to South Coast Plaza at noon on September 28th. Donors will get their picture taken with Yo Gabba Gabba!
If you are interested in information on how you can help end hunger during National Hunger Action Month and feed Orange County’s low-income children, please contact (714) 897-6670 x 3404 or mmorrill@capoc.org. Together, we can eliminate hunger and poverty in Orange County.
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