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Boston CANSTRUCTION winners announced

Eighteen Boston-area architecture and design firms gathered at Bunker Hill Community College to find out who the winners were of the 2008 CANSTRUCTION project. ?The firms designed sculptures out of a combined total of 55,000 cans of food items. ?All of the food will be donated to The Greater Boston Food Bank. Winners included: Symmes Maini & Mckee Associates, DiMella Schaffer, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., TRO Jung/Brannen, CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott and Nitsch Engineering. The structures were judged by an esteemed jury including Christopher Peabody, Account Manager, Peabody Office Furniture; Dan Dombak from Equity; Marc Margulies, President, ?Margulies Perruzzi Architects, Inc.; ?Diane Georgopolus, President, Boston Society of Architects; ?Fernando J. Domenech, President, Domenech Hicks & Krockmalnic, Inc.; Jeanne-Marie Boylan, Bunker Hill Community College Board of Trustees Chairman; ?Joan Delorey from Ames & Gough; and Ara Krafian from Symmes Maini & McKee. ?"We thank all of the architecture and design firms for this extremely generous and timely donation," said Steve Cheatham, Food Acquisition Group Director of The Greater Boston Food Bank. ?"The food from this donation will go to feed the men, women and children of eastern Massachusetts, many of whom need to make a choice this time of year between heating their homes and feeding their families." CANSTRUCTION is a trademarked event organized by The Society for Design Administration which partners at the local level with chapters of the American Institute of Architects and other professional allied organizations to produce the competitions
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