Sir David Adjaye will design the 2019 BRIT Award statues
The designer behind 2019's BRIT Awards statues have been revealed, as well as a confirmed date for the ceremony.
The 2019 BRIT Awards have announced that British-Ghanaian architect, Sir David Adjaye OBE, will be the mind behind 2019's statue awards for the ceremony.
Sir David Adjaye is responsible for buildings such as Washington DC's Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, London's Stephen Lawrence Centre, Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, and many more.
The #BRITs 2019 awards are on their way...
— BRIT Awards (@BRITs) October 23, 2018
Designed by the incredible Sir David Adjaye and produced in partnership with Lasvit, they'll be handed out to our winners on 20 February 2019!@dadjaye @AdjayeAssoc @LasvitDesign pic.twitter.com/LVsd1nD0hT
2018's red statue award was made by Sir Anish Kapoor, while the late Dame Zaha Hadid designed the 2017 award.
Speaking about being chosen to create 2019's BRIT Awards, Sir David Adjaye explained, “I am so delighted and honoured to be appointed. The BRITs are an iconic, eponymous celebration of British creativity and a true testimony to the wealth of talent working and supporting, making and producing and creating music both in this country and globally - it is an absolute pleasure to be given the opportunity to participate in honouring fellow creatives in this way.”
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