Portland Canstruction® Event – Next Week
One of the most visually stunning demonstrations of talent and creativity within the architectural and engineering communities, benefitting Oregon Food Bank.
Portland, Ore. – September 16, 2019– Kelley Imaging presents the Canstruction Portland 23ndannual Canstruction® exhibition and competition. There are 8 teams comprised of 19 companies that will transform over 33,000 cans into giant whimsical and wildly inventive sculptures made entirely out of full cans of food. An annual art show, design competition, and food drive all rolled into one; Canstruction® raises hunger awareness by challenging teams of architects, engineers, and contractors to create larger-than-life pop art masterpieces. These Can-structures will be on display for a week at Pioneer Place in the lower level, located at 700 SW 5thAvenue, Portland, Oregon from September 23-29, 2019.
Our sponsors for this year event are Kelley Imaging, Precision Imaging, Bric Architecture, and Oregon Building Officials Association.
This year’s participating companies are:
David Evans and Associates
Enviroments
FFA Architecture and Interiors
HDR
Hennebery Eddy Architects
IA Interior Architects
KPFF
LRS Architects
Modulus Consulting
Murrysmith
OTAK
PAE
Skanska
SSOE Group
Swinerton
Turner Construction Co.
WSP
ZGF
September is also Hunger Action Month™ when America takes action to fight hunger in our communities. All month long, you have the opportunity to make an impact on our effort to feed more Americans than ever before. Help us raise awareness by making donations or volunteering so we can solve hunger together. Every action feeds the human spirit.
Each month 260,000 people access a food pantry in Oregon and Clark County, Washington, and one third of them are children. Our goal for 2019 is to raise 60,000 meals to help feed thousands of people struggling with hunger in our community. Since its inception, this Portland event has raised more than 1 million meals to help fight hunger. After the teams construct their masterpieces, each structure will be judged by the Portland Canstruction® jury and awards will be given for Best Meal, Structural Ingenuity, Best Use of Labels, Best Original Design, and the Golden SPAM Award. For more information, visit www.canstructionpdx.org.
About Canstruction®: Canstruction®is a 501(c) (3) charity committed to ending hunger by hosting the most unique food charity in the world. It is a design/build competition held in cities throughout the world. Portland is one of more than 200 cities around the world taking part in the international competition, which has donated more than 20 million pounds of food to local hunger programs since its founding in 1992.
About Oregon Food Bank: Oregon Food Bank works to eliminate hunger and its root causes…because no one should be hungry. Oregon Food Bank believes that hunger starves the human spirit, that communities thrive when people are nourished, and that everyone deserves healthy and fresh food. Oregon Food Bank helps feed the human spirit of 740,000 people through a food distribution network of 21 regional food banks serving Oregon and Clark County, Washington. Oregon Food Bank also leads statewide efforts to increase resources for hungry families and to eliminate the root causes of hunger through public policy, local food systems work, nutrition and garden education, health care screening and innovative programming. Find out how to feed the human spirit at oregonfoodbank.org.