Canstruction Phoenix Metro is a non-profit event that brings together creative minds for a friendly design competition. Each year, teams compete to create the most impressive sculptures made entirely out of canned food. After the event, all the food is donated to the St. Mary’s Food Bank to help fight hunger in our community.
The 2025 theme was Nostalgia. 37,222 pounds of food collected. 75,892 meals provided.
The structures were up at Arrowhead Towne Center Mall. A panel of judges met and scored the structures naming Best Original Design, Best Use of Labels, Best Meal, Structural Ingenuity, and Most Cans.
See the winners below.
Canstruction Tucson: Build for Hunger is a fun and unique building competition between local architects, engineers, builders, contractors, and designers. Using canned foods and other non-perishable items, these Cansculptures will be built and on display at the Park Place Mall as a larger-than-life art exhibition. The 2025 these was Landmarks!
Canstruction Tucson donates all food used to build sculptures to the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, and all proceeds will contribute to building healthy, hunger-free communities.
This year’s Canstruction sculptures were built with approximately 20,000 non-perishable canned food items! Fun fact: It would take 3,421 regular pint-sized canned food jars to reach the height of the Empire State Building. The cans used for Canstruction stacked end-to-end would stand taller than 6 Empire State Buildings.
Canstruction 2025 also brought in more than $10,000 in donations this year!
See the winners below.
2025 Winner: Structural Ingenuity – The Tack Room Tucson’s Culinary Landmark by a.23 Studios and Ennovative Engineering
