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Canstruction 2012: Building Awareness and Breaking the Rules
Every year for the past 20 years, teams of architects and engineers descend upon the Winter Garden at World Financial Center to do what they do best—build impressive structures. Using only unopened cans of food, some creative planning and lots of ingenuity, two dozen teams spend a single night turning more than 100,000 cans into pop art for charity.
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