One Can Make a Difference. We are excited to be participating in the upcoming CANstruction Boston 2014 happening this weekend at the Boston Society of Architects, Atlantic Wharf. PAYETTE creatives and volunteers look forward to this every year: generating ideas and inspiration and group execution on build day. Our ideas have been brewing since June when the PAYETTE CANstruction team rounded up their concept votes from Staff.
Above: 2012 CANstruction Event statistics
This year’s theme–POP CULTURE–is described as “This could be a sculpture representing the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images and other phenomena heavily influenced by mass media in the late 20th and early 21st century. Pop Culture encompasses not only trends and fads but political figures, athletes, celebrities and even cartoon characters that capture the public imagination.”
2014 Event Timeline
Build out: Saturday, October 11, 2014
Judging and Official Opening: Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Awards Gala: Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Decanstruction: Saturday, November 1, 2014
All the canned goods are going to the Merrimack Valley Food Bank based out of Lowell, Massachusetts.
Below: process images from PAYETTE’s entry last year; interesting to see how the endless array of branded canned goods can transpire to the perfect color palette. Design decisions are everywhere!
Slideshow: 13 years of past PAYETTE CANstruction entries
We are honored to share PAYETTE has received two 2026 Green Good Design Awards from The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies—Land’s Sake Farm and The Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard.
“Green GOOD DESIGN identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and works to develop a public awareness program that informs the general public about which global companies are doing the best job in ecological and sustainable design for our world. Architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, as well as product, packaging, and graphic design projects from over 30 nations were honored with the 2026 Green GOOD DESIGN Award.”
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