A 14-strong architecture collective with a strong social conscience has won this year's Turner Prize.
Assemble blurs the line between art and architecture and was the first design studio ever to be nominated
They worked with the local community in Granby in Toxteth, Liverpool, to transform a number of rundown houses in an area which has seen huge deprivation since the 1981 Toxteth Riots.
Since being nominated they have also set up a workshop which makes products used in the renovations and these can now be bought by the public with the money being ploughed back into the project.
Before they were announced as winners, Matt Leung from Assemble told Sky News' Lucy Cotter that no one was more surprised by the nomination than they were.
"We were mostly confused at the beginning," he said.
"It's the largest visual art prize in the UK and we didn't really understand what was happening.
"It was quite bewildering but once we got the context of it - in the context of useful art and what that means - we used it as an opportunity to further the project, to set up Granby workshop as a social enterprise."
Turner has the power to transform careers even with a nomination.
Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen and Grayson Perry are all winners - Tracey Emin was only nominated yet this was enough to cement her place in the history books.
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