Canstruction 2009 Award Winners
CANstruction AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED –
THIS YEAR’S BEST SCULPTURES MADE FROM CANS OF FOOD
Now they CAN celebrate the fruits of their labor. The CANstruction Rochester 2009 award winners were announced Friday evening November 13 at the fourth annual Awards Banquet for the design and build competition to benefit Foodlink at the Bausch & Lomb Wintergarden. The finished sculptures are on display through November 20 (M-F, 6 am - 7 pm).
(Jurors’ Favorite is considered the top award)
Jurors’ Favorite: The Pike Company - The Pharaohs Feat to End Hunger
Structural Ingenuity: Labella Associates - CAN You Hear Hunger Now?
Best use of labels: Wegmans Development Group - If We Don’t Fight Hunger, Then Whoo Whoo Will?
Best Meal: QCI Direct - We CAN Gobble up Hunger
Honorable Mention: Gardner Plus Architects - All Aboard in the Fight Against Hunger
All winners go on to compete in their category internationally through submission of slide photography to a national panel of jurors.
Other entries in the competition were: Clark Patterson Lee – “Stamping Out Hunger”;
Construction Explorers – “CANacopia: Plenty of Cans to Go Around!”; and Smith & Associates – “CAN-fu Panda: If You CAN’t, He CAN!”
Five local “celebrity” judges gathered at the site last Monday evening (Nov. 9), received their instruction packets from event co-chairmen Ken and Rick Glazer, and painstakingly went about viewing and reviewing each of this year’s eight entries. “The instructions outline the five award categories and establish a point system so the judges understand what they are looking for in each presentation and how to assign a score based on their findings as well as their feelings,” said Ken Glazer.
This year’s local judges were Mark Peterson, President and CEO, Greater Rochester Enterprise; Trevor Harrison, Partner & Founder, HBT Architects; Alfred Pardi, President, Pardi Partnership Architects P.C.; Alex Bitterman, Professor, RIT School of Design; and Dan Eaton, chef/host, YNN’s “Cooking at Home” show.
“We’re pleased to again be the presenting sponsor of this event,” said Larry Glazer, CEO of Buckingham Properties. “The time, energy and creativity that goes into these sculptures not only results in a great contribution to fight hunger, but also creates camaraderie and team-building within each team, between the teams and within the community.”
Other sponsors include YNN , WoodWise Land Company, LeFrois Development, Landsman/Mayzon Real Estate Services, Bausch & Lomb, Woods Oviatt Gillman LLP, Dataflow, AIA Rochester, Pardi Architects, HBT Architects, Pride Mark Homes and Peg in Post Painting & Restoration.
About Canstruction:
Canstruction is an international charity of the design and construction industry created by the Society for Design Administration. Architects and Engineers in cities across the country, and internationally, compete in a design-build competition to create giant works of sculptural art, made entirely out of canned and packaged foods.
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