In this movie, architect Sarah Izod explains how she drew from the children’s book Where the Wild Things Are to create an other-worldly ceremony for the inaugural Dezeen Awards.
Thirty-three Dezeen Awards winners were revealed at the ceremony, which washosted by British comedian Sir Lenny Henryand attended by 400 people.
The event took place on 27 November in a landmark former industrial building in London, whichIzodfilled with textiles, stilt walkers and painted trees.
Izod said her favourite childhood book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak served as inspiration for the atmosphere of the evening.
“The ambition was to have the guests arrive and feel like they were entering some sort of strange nocturnal forest,” she explained in the movie, which Dezeen filmed at the ceremony.
“The raw architecture of the former industrial space was the starting point – it had a sense of other-worldliness.”
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