Canstruction Long Island 2014 design competition collects 28,052 cans of food; Has donated 290,000 cans over eight years

On October 23rd, the winners of Canstruction Long Island 2014's annual design competition were awarded at its awards reception held at RXR Plaza. Eight teams of architects, engineers, designers, contractors, vendors, students and community groups built colossal structures made entirely of cans of food, which were given to Long Island Cares, the Harry Chapin Food Bank along with $2,500 in cash donations. This year's structures consisted of 27,129 cans, totaling almost 20,000 pounds of food. The teams raised over $32,000 in order to purchase the cans for their structures. Additional donations from the public brought the total to 28,052 cans of food which will provide 16,070 meals to Long Islanders in need. The winning professional team structures for 2014 are: Most Cans * Structure Title: "Hunger Stops at the PumpCAN Patch" * Team Name: LKB Consulting Engineers * Total Cans: 6,772 * # Meals: 3,157 Juror's Favorite * Structure Title: "Oh Foodles!" * Team Name: Lines & Designs 3-D, LLC and Social Harmony * Total Cans: 5,376 * # Meals: 2,736 Best Use of Labels * Structure Title: "Hunger Stops at the PumpCAN Patch" * Team Name: LKB Consulting Engineers * Total Cans: 6,772 * # Meals: 3,157 Structural Ingenuity * Structure Title: "Oh Foodles!" * Team Name: Lines & Designs 3-D, LLC and Social Harmony * Total Cans: 5,376 * # Meals: 2,736 Best Meal * Structure Title: "Hunger Stops at the PumpCAN Patch" * Team Name: LKB Consulting Engineers * Total Cans: 6,772 * # Meals: 3,157 Honorable Mention * Structure Title: "COWABUNGA! Let's Stop Hunger Dude!" * Team Name: H2M architects + engineers * Total Cans: 4,150 * # Meals: 2,144 People's Choice * Structure Title: "Oh Foodles!" * Team Name: Lines & Designs 3-D, LLC and Social Harmony * Total Cans: 5,376 * # Meals: 2,736 Other Participating Professional Teams * Structure Title: "Beats Hunger" * Team Name: Wiedersum Associates Architects * Total Cans: 3,562 * # Meals:1,687 * Structure Title: "Lookout for Hunger" * Team Name: B. Thayer Associates * Total Cans: 1,724 * # Meals: 1,282 Student teams included the following: Most CANtabulous (Juror's Favorite) * Structure Title: "Let's Erase Hunger" * Team Name: Temple Sinai of Roslyn Youth Group * Total Cans: 1,660 * # Meals: 1,228 Best CANcept (Best Use of Labels) * Structure Title: "We CAN Solve World Hunger" * Team Name: Sacred Heart Academy * Total Cans:1,485 * # Meals: 1,101 Best CANfiguration (Structural Ingenuity) * Structure Title: "I Nominate You to Fight Hunger!" * Team Name: Friends Academy * Total Cans: 2,400 * # Meals: 2,104 Most CANtastic (Best Meal) * Structure Title: "We CAN Solve World Hunger" * Team Name: Sacred Heart Academy * Total Cans: 1,485 * # Meals: 1,101 Over the past eight years, Canstruction Long Island's annual design competition has raised over $385,000 to purchase and collectively donate over 290,000 cans of food representing more than 115 tons of food providing more than 190,000 meals for hungry Long Islanders. "Every year we are astounded at the creativity and ingenuity displayed by the professional and student teams alike to create these amazing structures," said Tracy Lobdell, executive director, Canstruction Long Island. "The discipline and drive to fundraise and collect the tremendous number of cans needed to build their designs is a credit to the determination of these teams to help their fellow Long Islanders fight hunger." The exhibit, located at RXR Plaza, was open to the public every day from Friday, October 24th through Thursday, November 5th. The cost of admission was a can of food, which visitors used to cast their vote for the People's Choice Award. For more information about participating in or sponsoring Canstruction Long Island, please visit www.canstructionli.org.