Visitors to Toronto?s financial district may be wondering why there?s an cross section of planet earth made out of canned fish around the corner from a group of nesting dolls built from assorted canned in the lobby of the TD Centre. They?re just two of nineteen structures on display this week, as teams of professional designers, architects, engineers and students took part in Toronto?s 19th Annual Canstruction® Toronto Competition.
In all 52,165 pounds of donated non-perishable food were sculpted into audacious, edible statues all in an effort to fill Toronto?s hunger gap.
?Canstruction is a unique way for the design community to collaborate creatively in support of the Daily Bread Food Bank,? says Helen Kabriel, co-chair of Canstruction® Toronto. ?The competition is a catalyst for a city-wide conversation about hunger and our collective responsibility to address the challenges facing Toronto.? The ?Canstructures? are on display for public viewing in the lobbies of the TD Bank, TD North and Ernst & Young towers at 66 Wellington Street West until May 18th, before being disassembled and donated to Daily Bread Food Bank, the city?s largest distributor of food to food banks and meal programs.
“Canstruction does three great things,” said Neil Hetherington, CEO of Daily Bread Food Bank. “It provides almost half of our non-perishable donations in a month when public donations are low; it showcases the creativity and generosity of Toronto’s top archite...