Ice cream cone by Shelden Architecture.

Four architectural firms are behind the canned food masterpieces on display now through Nov. 18 at Wichita’s Town East Mall. The Kansas Food Bank’s Canstruction Event is an annual event that serves as a reminder to holiday shoppers to remember those in need during the holidays by contributing to canned food drives. The event also allows local architecture firms to put their design skills on display. Each firm comes up with a design, then places an order with the Food Bank for the number, sizes and colors of cans needed to build the design. After the event, all cans go to the Kansas Food Bank for distribution to food pantries. This year’s participating firms are Spangenberg Phillips Architecture, Gossen Livingston and Associates, Shelden Architecture and Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey Architecture.

This can-made bomb, designed to destroy hunger, is by Spangenberg Phillips.

This lighthouse made of cans is by Gossen Livingston and Associates.

A tornado made of cans is blowing through hunger in Kansas. This display is by Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey Architecture.