NRI WINS CANSTRUCTION AWARD

The 21st Annual Canstruction NYC Design/Build
Competition was held in NYC from October 31st
through November 13th in the Winter Garden and lobby of 200 Vesey Street,
Brookfield Place (formerly known as World Financial Center). Canstruction is an international
charity competition that showcases colossal structures made entirely out of
full cans of food.

The winners of the 21st Annual Canstruction Competition
were:

Jurors’ Favorite: Pour Your
Heart Out by Leslie E. Robertson Associates (LERA)

Structural Ingenuity: We CAN
Kill Hunger by STUDIOS Architecture

Best Meal: Hunger Never Sleeps
by Eleanor Roosevelt High School

Best Use of Labels: Cloudy with
a Chance of Tuna by Gilsanz Murray Steficek LLP

Honorable Mention: Once Upon a
Can by Thornton Tomasetti

Honorable Mention: Despicable
Hunger: Minions CanRise! by Perkins Eastman / Harlem RBI

The Cheri Mellilo Award, for
most inspirational structure, was given to National Reprographics Inc. for
their entry, Jackie “42″ Robinson. The NRI team assembled a wall with
the number “42”. This was the
fourth annual awarding of this prize named for Canstruction Founder, Cheri C.
Melillo. Each year the criteria for this award changes and is awarded by the
organizing committee or its agents. Cheri’s son, Brion van Over, and husband,
Bruce Melillo awarded this year’s prize to a team that has embodied the spirit
of Canstruction through participation and service all 21 years of the
Canstruction’s existence here in New York.

At the end of the event, all food is donated to local
hunger relief organizations!

For more information about Canstruction, and to view a gallery of images, click here

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Publisher’s comments:

First, congrats to the NRI team on their award. But, more than that, congrats to the NRI team
for their support of, and participation in, Canstruction for 21 consecutive
years!

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Just my opinion, but this is an event – Canstruction
competitions are held in many different cities across the country each year –
that ALL reprographers should support and take the time to participate in. I am aware that C2 Repro, out on the west
coast, supports and participates in Canstruction events in its neck of the
woods. What about the rest of you?! Step to the plate next year!

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