Creative Can Design Helps Feed Hungry
After six hours of building a massive sculpture in the likeness of King Kamehameha entirely from cans of food, employees from design firm WATG learned earlier this month that their creation had won the Jurors’ Favorite award in the seventh annual Canstruction competition at Pearlridge Center.
“We were really pleased,” said WATG architect Leigh Ishida, who was this year’s team co-captain. “We worked really hard with our design, and we practiced hard.”
The theme of this year’s event is “CANtastic Heroes,” and WATG’s winning sculpture is titled “CANmehameha: Hawaii’s Original Superhero.”
“Pretty early on, we all latched onto the idea of using Kamehameha as our theme,” Ishida explained. “We wanted to go in a different direction than we thought everybody else was doing.”
Canstruction brings together local architects, builders and design professionals in competition to create the best sculpture made from canned food ― all of which is later donated to the Hawaii Foodbank.
