Building Hope

Cincinnati Canstruction
Can-Do Celebration

Friday, May 19
5:30–7:30 p.m.

Black Box Theater at the Aronoff Center
Corner of Seventh and Main Streets

Tickets $20, includes admission and light appetizers provided by Cincinnati COOKS!. Cash bar available.

Categories are Best Original Design, Structural Ingenuity, Best Use of Labels and Best Meal.

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If you’ve ever built a fort out of pillows, a secret lair from a giant box, or a wall out of canned goods, Canstruction is made for you!

This is the first year since 2019 the Canstruction has been held in Cincinnati.

An international community service project of the design and construction industry to benefit community food banks, local teams design and build incredible structures from canned good. In Cincinnati, teams from BHDP, Champlin Architects, CSA, Danis, FFE Engineering and Architecture, GBBN, HDR, Hixson, Huseman Group, MA Design, MSA Design, SHP, and Turner are participating in this year’s competition.

Photos by Shae Combs

The 2023 Canstruction locations are

• The Weston Gallery, 650 Walnut St.

• Hertz Center, 600 Vine St.

• The Scripp Center, 312 Walnut St.

• Atrium 1 and 2, 221 E. Fourth St.

• First Financial, 255 E. Fifth St.

• GBBN Lobby, 332 E. Eighth St.

The architects, engineers, designers and contractors build fantastic giant-sized structures made entirely out of canned foods. The creations are on view to the general public as a giant art project. But at the close of the competition, all of the food used in the structures is donated to the local food bank for distribution to community emergency feeding programs.

Through the generosity of volunteers, celebrity jurors and members of the community, Cincinnati Canstruction has contributed 817,000 pounds of food to the Freestore Foodbank, enough to provide over 681,000 meals to people in the Tristate.