Bridgeland HS Wins International CANstruction Award
Bridgeland High School architecture students recently won the International CANstruction Competition “Best Meal Award” for their structure titled “Good Night Hunter” depicting the story behind Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting Starry Night.
CANstruction is an international nonprofit organization aimed at providing canned goods to local food banks by hosting competitions where teams consisting of architects, engineers, contractors and student mentees design and build large structures made of cans. After the competitions, the food is donated to local food banks.
During the 25th Annual CANstruction Houston Competition and Exhibition, Bridgeland students partnered with VLK Architects to create their Starry Night structure. At the competition, the team earned the “People’s Choice Award,” the “Most Cans Award” and the “Best Meal Award.” The structure was built from more than 6,900 taco-inspired canned food items, including beans, corn and nacho cheese and included taco spice packets and taco shell boxes to help create the village.
After winning awards at the Houston competition, the structure moved on to compete against other structures from other city competitions from across the world.
“This is an extremely big accomplishment,” said Josh Simmons, Bridgeland architecture teacher. “This isn’t just an award that’s won by high schools, this is an award that’s competing against industry professionals, major architecture and construction firms and other huge partners in major cities across the world. The fact that we won is absolutely mind-boggling. This is a huge win for us and I’m super excited to be a part of it!”
Visit the CANstruction website for more information.
