Canstruction Architecture

If you’re looking for unique architecture you’ll probably want to pencil in the third annual Chicago Canstruction event, which by the way kicked off the 2008 NeoCon World’s Trade Fair. I hadn’t heard of the can buildings, then came across the second one online a bit ago. It’s super cool and appears to be a summer event.

According to Chicago Architecture Today, “20 top local architectural and engineering design firms unleashed their precocious inner-child as they utilized over 86,000 full cans of food ranging from Spam to Campbell’s Soup to construct scaled-models of notable figures. These food items will be donated to the CFD at the conclusion of the exhibition.”

This would be amazing to see. The second Canstruction took place in June 2008, so I’ll keep my eyes open for the third one this summer. To see more images click here and then scroll down a bit. See images from the first annual Canstruction event.

If you’re interested in more edible structures check out the following….

• Offbeat Gingerbread Homes 2008
• The perfect ice cold summer structure
• Classic Offbeat Homes: No one I think is in my tree…
• How would you like to live in this vegetable?

[image via Chicago Architecture Today]