A food drive with a sense of humor

A food drive with a sense of humor: "A food drive with a sense of humor

By Rachel Fershleiser

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners is the Pine Street architecture firm renowned for sleek glass and metal designs like the Jacob Javits Center in New York, the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, and the pyramid expansion on the Louvre Museum in Paris. This week, however, the company experimented with some different building materials: boxes of pasta and canned clams.

It is the firm’s first year participating in Canstruction, the 13th annual charity-food-drive-cum-design-competition that challenges architects and engineers to build massive sculptures from donated non-perishables. The giant clamshell the team built competed with a tuna can mermaid, a canned olive King Kong clutching Mrs. Butterworth, no fewer than three can iPods, as well as nearly thirty other constructions."