Randall-Paulson Architects won the award for Best Use of Kroger Labels in this year’s CANstruction for our sculpture, You’re not in CANsas Anymore.
Our structure depicts a famous scene from the Wizard of Oz, with a house made of cans resting on the Wicked Witch of the East with her glittery ruby slippers. "You're not in CANsas anymore" uses a hearty meal of baked beans, corn, green beans, sweet peas, refried beans, spaghetti with sauce, egg noodles, and tortilla chips. And what Midwestern style meal wouldn’t be complete without Kool-Aid?
A special thank you to the following companies for their generous contributions:
• The Conlan Company
• Paulson Mitchell Incorporated
• Paulson Baudry and Associates
• Barrett Woodyard and Associates
• Anderson Insurance
Check out our mention in The Atlanta Journal Constitution and read more about CANstruction at http://www.canstruction.org/
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Putting the can in can-do sculptures to fight hunger
By DAVID GRAVES
The Atlanta Journal-Constituion
Published on: 11/09/2007
This is can-do spirit if there ever was one.
Over at Underground Atlanta Thursday, 20 teams of architects, engineers and designers were hard at work finalizing layouts and constructing massive monuments made up mostly of canned goods.
They'll all be competing for a chance to head to the national competition at the American Institute of Architects national convention in Boston in May. Up to 52,000 canned goods and boxes were being used to build 20 sculptures — from Aqua Teen Hunger Force to a huge manually powered can opener to R2-D2.
Also taking shape Thursday was Randall-Paulson Architects' Yellow Brick Road-themed "You're Not in CANsas Anymore." HKS, Inc. architects were busy building their elaborate White House for "Presidential CANdidates," which will use 8,516 packages of tuna, pinto beans, black-eyed peas and spaghetti when complete.
Architectural majors from Southern Polytechnic State University, the only student organization in this year's contest, continued the patriotic theme with "Proud to be an AmeriCAN." Its twin towers will stand 9 feet and calls for 536 can goods.
"It's good to give back to the community," says Jake Begnaud as he and two teammates stretch to add layers to their monument. "Since it's time for Thanksgiving and Christmas, we wanted to do something American."
Each team was given $500 seed money for the competition and allowed to raise more money. Judging takes place Friday.
And when the exhibit is done, all food will be donated to the Atlanta Community Food Bank just in time for the holidays.
But right now, the focus is making all these thousands of cans take shape.
IF YOU GO: Free. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday. Through Nov. 18. Underground Atlanta, 50 Upper Alabama St., downtown Atlanta. 404-523-2311,
www.under-atlanta.com