{"id":624891,"date":"2026-09-15T00:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T00:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624891\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T00:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T00:50:14","slug":"21st-annual-canstruction-returns-to-downtown-honolulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624891\/","title":{"rendered":"21st Annual CANstruction returns to Downtown Honolulu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Unique sculptures made of thousands of canned goods are taking over a new downtown location for AIA Honolulu\u2019s 21st annual CANstruction competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Held inside the Central Pacific Bank Atrium, the event features eight teams of local architects and designers testing their skills by building massive 3D sculptures entirely out of canned food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Honoring AIA Hawai\u02bbi\u2019s 100th anniversary, this year\u2019s theme, \u201cCANtennial: Designs of the Decades,\u201d challenges teams to recreate iconic moments from each era, organizers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">All cans will be donated to the Hawai\u02bbi Foodbank. The public can view the sculptures and vote for the People\u2019s Choice Award from now through Friday, Sept. 18. Each $1 vote serves as a direct donation to the food bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Over its 21-year history, AIA Honolulu\u2019s CANstruction event has collected 787,005 pounds of canned goods and raised more than $110,000 for the food bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To view the competing teams or cast a vote, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aiahonolulu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.aiahonolulu.org\/\">www.aiahonolulu.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Unique sculptures made of thousands of canned goods are taking over a new downtown location&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-624891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}