Source:  Inside Scoop SF
Original Article:  http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2012/11/16/scenes-from-this-years-movie-themed-canstruction/

This week (and last through Saturday), 14 giant structures have made One Market at home. It’s the annual San Francisco Canstruction event, which brings together teams of architects, engineers and contractors to build giant, life-sized sculptures out of canned food. After the event, structures are dismantled and all food is donated to the SF Food Bank; t...

Source:  San Francisco Business Times by Jim Gardner, Managing Editor
Original Article: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2012/11/can-do-attitude.html

If you are walking through the lobby of One Market St. in the next couple of days, don’t be shocked to hear a 7 1/2-foot R2D2 figure beeping while he flashes his lights and swivels his head.

What really might surprise you is that the giant Star Wars robot, engineered by Barry Ralphs of Tipping Mar, is made almost entirely of cann...

At the end of the exhibit, all cans will be donated to the SF Food Bank.

Fourteen teams spent nearly 12 hours each building their sculptures using 3,000-5,000 cans each and will b...

Source:  The Examiner
Original Article:  http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/11/canstruction-fills-one-market-slideshow-2



The second annual Canstruction San Francisco is showcasing 14 unique structures made entirely of canned food until Nov. 18 at One Market in San Francisco.

Originally started in New York in 1992, the competition now spans across the globe with more than 140 cities world-wide.

This year’s theme is “The CANnes Film Festival” where each structure is based around legenda...

Source:   SMPS SF
Original Article:  http://smpssf.org/2012-canstruction-event/

Teams of architects, engineers and contractors will gather at the Paramount Group’s One Market building in San Francisco this November for the second San Francisco CANstruction^®, an event which last year generated donations of more than 50,000 pounds of food and $20,000 for the San Francisco and Marin Food Banks.

The event brings together teams of designers and builders to construct giant-sized structures from c...