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A Ziggurat-designed gathering
The Architecture of Connection

Do you remember a gathering that captivated all of you?

The people. The pace. The music. The comfort. The food. Ziggurat designs gatherings where structure turns that captivation into connection.

Ziggurat architects human connection.

We plan for everything that shapes a gathering: the room, the senses, the authority in it, the light, even who needs to meet whom.

Texture: candlelight, linen, table detail
For Social

A dinner, a retirement, a celebration.

Ziggurat designs personal gatherings for the people in them, where the goal is connection.

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Texture: structure, grid, the room of record
For Business

A summit, a board retreat, a room of record.

Ziggurat designs gatherings to facilitate business purposes, balance participation, and build constituent trust.

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An event planner curates the space. Ziggurat architects the people, and the space.

Most planners design for social media: the photos, the videos, the aesthetics, at the expense of the people it's for. Ziggurat designs for the room first, then partners with photographers and videographers so the captures still outlast it.

Event Planners & Designers

Plans around budget and brand standards

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Plans around the social architecture of the people being served

Event Planners & Designers

Chooses aesthetics that photograph well, regardless of who is in the room

Ziggurat

Chooses aesthetics based on what serves that specific audience, not the camera

Event Planners & Designers

Treats the guest list as a logistics detail, not a design input

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Curates who is in the room as deliberately as the room itself

Ten well-matched people in an unfinished space will have a much better time than a hundred uncurated guests in a beautiful one.

Jeremy, Founder, Ziggurat

A new team. An architecture that's hard to deny.

Ziggurat pairs gathering design with the discipline of corporate consulting. We are a new practice, and we would rather show you what that produces than ask you to take our word for it, at a cost built for a first engagement.

Photo: arrival
Photo: the gathering
Photo: a detail
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Five considerations. A single structure.

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Your next gathering is still undesigned.

Tell us what it's for. We'll tell you what it should feel like.