Yes, you can enjoy these photos of the 19th annual Canstruction Exhibition, which puts 100,000 boring cans of food to good use by turning them into large-scale, gravity-defying sculptures (for charity). The show, which is part of a public food drive for City Harvest, features designs from 26 architecture and design firms. This year's creations include replicas of Alexander McQueen’s famed Lady Gaga shoes, Angry Birds, the Titanic, a "Don’t Walk" sign, the Brooklyn Bridge, and a working QR Code.
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100,000 Cans Turned Into Inventive Sculptures For Canstruction 2011
Bomb Lager, A Can-Only NYC Craft Beer
For the past few years quality craft beer has slowly been making its way into cans (hi Sixpoint!) but a quality craft beer available only in a can still remains a rare sight in your average cooler. Which is something Bomb Lager, which currently just makes one beer and only sells it in cans, is trying to fix.
Struggling Budweiser Introduces New Can To Reclaim Beer Throne
Despite a seemingly neverending revenue stream from legions of frat boys around the country, sales for Budweiser have been down recently, so to combat the loss, the diminished King of Beers is rolling out "sleek" new redesigned cans. Will the brodudes bite?
How Many Cans Can Ride The 6 Train?
This scene was spotted on the 6 train by Grand Central earlier today. Question: Is it Subway Douchery if someone is doing something nice for the environment?
Canstruction 2009 Winners Canfirmed!
Down at the Winter Garden in the World Financial Center, this year's Canstruction exhibit is underway, with 100,693 cans being used to make ingenious sculptures to benefit City Harvest. All these sculptures were assembled in a single night, and yesterday the winners were announced, with jurors declaring "Feed the Bank (Piggy Bank)," by Arianna Braun Architects, PLLC, best in show. The award for Best Use of Labels went to the Beatles-inspired "We Get By With A Little Help From Our Friends," by Ted Moudis Associates. Best Structural Ingenuity went to "A Fungus to Feed Us" by Platt Byard Dovell White Architects
Garbage Time
The Gotham Gazette has a fairly comprehensive overview of the unpleasant byproducts associated with densely populated living: garbage. The details are illuminating, 64,000 tons of weekly garbage that amounts to 7 billion pounds every year. The feature is an examination of the accumulation of daily decisions that New Yorkers make every day about the things they consume and dispose of. Paper, plastic, food waste, electronics, and other things we throw in the trash add up...
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