In a growing metropolis with one of the best food and restaurant scenes on the continent, it can be easy to forget that hunger and poverty are still major issues in Toronto, and across the globe as well. The Daily Bread Food Bank is Toronto’s largest community food bank, and is visited more than 800,000 times each year. Approximately 32 per cent of food bank users are children.

To help raise awareness about the growing problem, teams of engineers, architects, designers, and students attending universities in these fields united at the TD Centre in downtown Toronto this week, for the 15th annual CANstruction competition. The competition pits the teams against each other to create the most eye-catching and thought-provoking displays using packaged food. Since 1992, Canstruction has contributed more than 17.5 million pounds of food to food programs around the world, demonstrating that the fight against hunger is a winnable battle.

At this year's competition, the 'CANstructures' were judged in four categories; Jurors Favourite, Structural Ingenuity, Best Meal and Honourable Mention. Below we have included a list, as well as photographs, of this years winning displays.