Congratulations to Gnorton the Garden Gnome for being the Juror's Favorite in this year's Kansas City Canstruction contest benefiting Harvesters Community Food Network. Click "Read More" for more info and our movie of Gnorton being canstructed!

Canstruction is a design/build competition held in cities throughout North America.  Teams of architects, engineers, and students compete to design and build giant structures made entirely from full cans of food. The results are displayed to the public as magnificent sculpture exhibits in each city where a competition is held.  At the close of the exhibitions all of the canned food used in the structures is donated to local food banks for distribution to emergency feeding programs that include pantries, soup kitchens, elderly and day care centers.

Partnering with several other firms (PKMR, encompas, Holmes Murphy, SK Design Group, Creative Planning Benefits and Designtex), Gastinger Walker Harden Architects created a sculpture called "Garden is where the Gnome is". 3150 cans of food are used in the sculpture, which is enough to provide 2,150 meals! This year's team was (from left to right in the photo: Jennifer McFarland, Kaysha Rios, Aimee Gray, Dan Nenonen, Gnorton, Amanda Neugebauer, John Kyger, Laura Scott, Matt Gearheart, Bruce Wagar and Erich Torneden (not pictured).

Below is a time-lapse movie of Gnorton and his garden being created. You'll need Quicktime installed to watch the movie. You can download it for free here.

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