Canstruction 2016 Honorable Mention
NEWS | NOVEMBER 2016
Washington, District of Columbia
MV+A took home an Honorable Mention in the Washington Architectural Foundation‘s Canstruction 2016, a can-based “architectural” competition to collect canned goods for the Capital Area Food Bank. Our “Sharknado,” based off of the Sharknado 3 movie, is comprised of 1,476 cans forming 2 sharks that wrap around the Washington Monument. After a staff brainstorm resulting in staff architect Courtney Drake’s highly contested “Sharknado” theme, architectural designer Colleen Korp and associate Brian Szymanski worked closely on the final design, while associate Wayne Broadfield decided on construction materials for the final build-out at the National Building Museum. In the design below, note the two-tone Washington Monument – the real life version uses two shades of marble, which we reflected with white and tan cans, winning the prize for “Best Use of DC Architectural Trivia.”
