Creating for a Cause: CANstruction Designs Benefit San Antonio Food Bank
By Leslie Foley
Architects and friends built structures featuring canned food items to benefit the San Antonio Food Bank. Now in its 18th year, the CANstruction design-build competition returned to North Star Mall as one of the San Antonio Food Bank’s Hunger Action Month campaign events throughout September to raise awareness for hunger relief.
Coordinated by the San Antonio chapter of the Society for Design Administration and The American Institute of Architects, eight teams representing the architecture, engineering, and construction industries designed, procured, and constructed giant CanArt® sculptures; inspired creations, sure to delight and impress. Shoppers stopped for selfies and photo opps at each CANstruction.
All canned goods used to create the unconventional art exhibits were donated to the San Antonio Food Bank at the close of the competition. In 17 years, CANstruction has donated more than 600,000 pounds of food.
Awards
Most Cans, Best Original Design and Best Use of Orange
Ford Powell & Carson and SKYE MEP
Best Meal
HDR & Joeris General Contractors
Best Use of Labels
RVK, JCB, Lundy & Franke, Nunnelly and Travis Millwork
Structural Ingenuity
San Antonio College-AIA Student Chapter
