In Brief: Canned Good Design; On-Time Art

⇒ They don’t call them canned goods for nothing. Through December 8, you can stop by the World Financial Center in New York City to view the results of the 16th annual design/build competition known as Canstruction, in which teams representing 40 of New York’s top architectural and engineering firms compete to create giant structures made entirely from canned goods (the giant sundae at right, for example). Co-presented by the Society for Design Administration and the American Institute of Architects, the exhibit will ultimately be dismantled and all of the canned food will be donated to City Harvest for distribution to emergency feeding programs.