In this movie, Dezeen Awards jury chair Michel Rojkind explains why Matthew Mazzotta's modest, retractable The Storefront Theater beat projects by leading international firms to be crowned Architecture Project of the Year 2018.

American artist Mazzotta designed the retractable 100-seat theatre to fold out of a disused storefront in Lyons ? a small town in Nebraska.

The project won the Rebirth Project of the Year category at the Dezeen Awards ceremony in London last week, before beating projects by major firms such as David Chipperfield Architects and Foster + Partners to be named Architecture Project of the Year 2018.

The project won because it demonstrates how a simple architectural idea can have a positive impact on the local community, according to Mexican architect Rojkind, who was chair of the Dezeen Awards master architecture jury.
"There was a rich conversation about why this should be the winning project and in the end it was not about how big the project was or how complex it was," he explains in the movie, which Dezeen filmed at the judging day earlier this year.

"It was about an idea, how a simple element such as a wall can become a theatre and integrate the sidewalk and the street."

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