CANstruction 2025 November 2, 2025
Posted by judylobo in Zoo.Tags: Art exhibit, Brookfiled Place, Canstruction, City Harvest, Food, Food as Art, NYC, photography
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Canstruction is back at Brookfield Place! The clever and fun annual design competition challenges teams of architects, engineers, and contractors to build sculptures made entirely out of unopened cans of food. The large-scale sculptures are displayed in an exhibition space free and open to the public and later donated to City Harvest to help feed those in need. Canstruction® New York has donated over 2 million pounds of food to local food banks since 1993, and over 1.2 million pounds to City Harvest since 2006. Since 1992, Canstruction® has raised nearly 82 million pounds of food for hunger relief organizations around the world with its signature, trademarked CanArt. It is a very short exhibition and closes November 10th. Perhaps you CAN put it on your list for this year. 
You CAN do it! November 10, 2024
Posted by judylobo in Zoo.Tags: Art exhibit, Brookfield Place, Canstruction, City Harvest, NYC, photography
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Canstruction returns to Brookfield Place! The annual design competition challenges teams of architects, engineers and contractors to build sculptures made entirely out of unopened cans of food. The large-scale sculptures are displayed in a free exhibition space open to the public and later donated to City Harvest to help feed those in need. Canstruction is an art exhibit and Canstruction is a fundraiser. There are 23 sculptures that populate the two levels of Brookfield Place. This year’s sculptures run the gamut from fairytales to cartoon characters to movie villains. There’s Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Pokemon’s Squirtle, Perry the Platyus and Remy. They are joined by the man eating plant from Little Shop of Horrors and the scary giant sandworm from Beetlejuice. All of these are made of cans that will eventually be donated to City Harvest just in time for Thanksgiving. Canstruction® New York has donated over 2 million pounds of food to local food banks since 1993, and over 1.2 million pounds to City Harvest since 2006. Since 1992, Canstruction® has raised nearly 82 million pounds of food for hunger relief organizations around the world with its signature, trademarked CanArt. It is a very short exhibition and closes tomorrow November 11th. Perhaps you CAN put it on your list for next year.
Can Do! November 12, 2023
Posted by judylobo in Zoo.Tags: art, Art exhibit, Brookfiled Place, Canstruction, City Harvest, NYC, photography
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Canstruction returns to Brookfield Place. I admit to admiring this competition each year when I see it featured on TV but I never ventured downtown to check it out in person. No excuse for this laziness and I will now have it on my ‘must see’ annual things. This yearly design competition challenges teams of architects, engineers, and contractors to build sculptures made entirely out of unopened cans of food. The large-scale sculptures are placed on display and later donated to City Harvest to help provide families with a holiday meal. Canstruction® New York has donated over 2 million pounds of food to local food banks since 1993, and over 1.2 million pounds to City Harvest since 2006. Since 1992, Canstruction® has raised nearly 82 million pounds of food for hunger relief organizations around the world with its signature, trademarked CanArt. It closes tomorrow, November 13, so there’s still time to go on down. Bring some canned food to donate while you are there. 