Building a Baseball

This time lapse video was taken during the “Canstruction Chicago 2007” at the Museum of Science and Industry. Thirteen teams of Chicago architects and engineers built structures entirely out of cans of food. After the event, over 50,000 pounds of food were donated to the Greater Chicago Food Depository.

The baseball, titled “Catch Me If You CAN!,” completed by the architecture firm BoothHansen, was awarded “Jurors Favorite” and “People’s Choice.” The baseball was constructed using a total of 5,500 cans including Bumblebee tuna (ball), Hormel ham (stitches), Perrier water (grass), and Jewel Peanut butter (dirt). It took about 7 hours to build.

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