To encourage new and unpublished entrants to the field of architectural history, the Hawksmoor Essay Prize is awarded to the author of the best essay submitted in competition.
The competition is open to current postgraduate students in their masters or PhD studies, and to early career researchers. The competition is international in scope and there is no geographical restriction on where entrants are undertaking or have completed research, nor on the subject matter of the research.
The winning essay will be published in the Society’s internationally respected journal, Architectural History. The recipient will also receive a £400 cash prize, and one year’s Society membership.
Deadline: 12 September 2025
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FollowThe Architecture Drawing Prize 2025 is now open for entries!
The Architecture Drawing Prize, a collaboration between Make Architects, Sir John Soane’s Museum, and World Architecture Festival, is now accepting entries for its 2025 competition.
TADP celebrates the art and skill of architectural drawing in all its forms. Established in 2017, the Prize has become a leading international platform, with shortlisted and winning entries exhibited at the prestigious Sir John Soane’s Museum in London.
What’s New for 2025?
This year, we’re embracing the evolving nature of architectural drawing, including the growing influence of AI tools and techniques. To reflect this, entries will be judged on an overall basis rather than in category silos, offering more fluidity and opportunities for diverse submissions. There will be multiple winners, along with a special prize for hand-drawing – to mark the initial inspiration behind these awards.
Why Enter?
Gain international exposure at the World Architecture Festival 2025 in Miami this November.
See your work displayed at the world-renowned Sir John Soane’s Museum in London in early 2026.
Your work will be reviewed by an esteemed panel, including Make Architects founder Ken Shuttleworth, acclaimed artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell, Lily Jencks of Lily Jencks Studio, and Foster + Partners’ head of design communications Narinder Sagoo.
The Prize is open to all architects, designers, and students from across the globe. We welcome drawings of every description – from traditional hand drawings to those incorporating the latest digital and AI techniques.
Standard entry fee: £99
Under 30’s and students entry fee: £49
Entry deadline: 12 September 2025
Stephen Coade Prize
Historic Buildings & Places are now inviting submissions for the 2025 Stephen Croad Prize
Do you have a new discovery on historical buildings of the United Kingdom?
Stephen Croad was an author, researcher and archivist of architectural history and during his career and in his voluntary roles made a profound impact on our knowledge and understanding of the UK’s architectural history.
In Stephen’s memory Historic Buildings & Places now run an annual competition, with a prize award of £600, to encourage new architectural research and writing.
In the spirit of Stephen’s own research and practice, contributions should be on factually verifiable, documenting new discoveries on historic buildings in the United Kingdom, whether part of the established canon or areas less examined. We will also consider essays on building conservation and heritage crafts. We would encourage submissions, revised according to the guidelines, based on work submitted towards an academic qualification already achieved…..
The deadline for submission is 31st May 2025.
Heritage Crafts: Emerging Metalworker of the Year Award
This award celebrates an early-career heritage craftsperson (in the first 5 years of their professional practice) who has made an outstanding start to their metalworking career. The award winner will be highly skilled amongst their peers, whilst raising the perceived value of their craft through sharing and awareness raising. They will have given themselves a fantastic chance of achieving long-term success, perhaps overcoming disadvantage or setbacks along the way.
The award is open to practitioners of any craft that uses metal as its primary material. Examples include (but are not limited to) blacksmithing, coppersmithing, bronze casting, cutlery, silversmithing, brass instrument making etc.
Anyone, including the maker themselves, can nominate for this award. Finalists will be expected to attend the high-profile Winners’ Reception in November 2025.
Deadline: 1 July 2025
2025 British Construction & Infrastructure Awards (BCIA)
The Awards for 2025 have been refreshed, along with the event name itself, plus they are free to enter* . They celebrate and honour the outstanding contributions of the British construction industry to society. This industry not only delivers transformative buildings and infrastructure that enhance lives and fuel economic growth but also creates exceptional job opportunities and careers, fosters strong community relationships, drives innovation, and champions the low-carbon agenda.
Introducing the Sir John Armitt Prize – This prize recognises projects that surpass objectives, satisfy clients, and deliver significant benefits to end-users and stakeholders. Winners embody industry excellence, showcasing what projects can achieve at their very best. This Prize will covet national media attention.
Sir John Armitt, Chair of the judging panel for the prize said:
“I am delighted to have been asked to help select the inaugural award in my name and celebrate the very best we can achieve. We design to satisfy a client’s desired outcomes. But at the same time, we need to satisfy wider stakeholders that we have created buildings and infrastructure which benefit the community and create an improved and uplifting environment. To achieve this, we must be creative, innovate, and challenge ourselves and our colleagues in a collaborative approach – and this award recognises a project team that exemplifies these very qualities.”
The awards take place on 8 October 2025, are brought to you by the Institution of Civil Engineers and New Civil Engineer and celebrate the hard work and dedication of the whole project team – from clients, architects, designers and contractors .
There are 24 prestigious award categories for you to enter, all judged by our independent panel of 100+ expert judges , who ensure integrity and rigour in our awards process. New for 2025 , we are delighted to announce the Energy Project Award, the Water Project Award, the International Project Award, four Design & Delivery Excellence Awards and the overarching special category in the Sir John Armitt Prize – great additions to an already prestigious set of award categories!
The awards take place on 8 October 2025. Considering the challenges faced by the industry, there is no better year to enter the BCIA. Make the most of this incredible opportunity and submit your entry by Friday 9 May 2025 ( *Enter by 25 April 2025 for free ).
The Craftsmanship Category is open for entries
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Projects which demonstrate bricklayers’ exceptional skill and the highest level of craftsmanship may enter this category.
The category welcomes all building types from sculptural work to large-scale brickwork detailing.
This category is very much about recognising the contribution of the people who undertake the brickwork and is about the level of craftsmanship in application, rather than design.
Projects must have been completed within the last two years, and substantially use BDA-member bricks.
Entries open for RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence
Nominations for the RTPI Awards for Planning Awards Excellence are now open through to 14 December 2018.
The awards are the longest running and most high-profile awards in the industry. For 40 years they have rewarded the brightest talent in the profession; the teams, projects and individuals that transform economies, environments and their communities all over the UK and internationally.
With planners tackling some of the most pressing issues of our time, from population growth and housing shortage to environmental issues and climate change, it has never been more important to reward the contributions of the profession to society.
Being shortlisted for one of the prestigious awards is an excellent opportunity to raise the profile of a team, consultancy or individual. It is also completely free to enter.
New to this year is “Excellence in Tech within Planning practice”. This category recognises any projects that have used a new type of technology or used technology in a new or innovative way.
The finalists will be announced in February 2019 and the winners will be announced at a ceremony on 24 April 2019, at Milton Court Concert Hall in central London.
If you would like to make a submission, click here for more information.
Brick Awards 2018 Entries Now Open
The Brick Awards 2018 entry process is now open!
The annual Brick Awards celebrate the best examples of clay brick in our built environment. Each year the awards attract over 300 entries from leading architects, housebuilders, developers and contractors, across 15 hotly-contested categories.
The Brick Awards benefit from an exceptionally well-credentialled judging panel and as such, has established a reputation as one of the industry’s most respected and well-attended events. Moving into its 42nd year, we encourage everyone who is passionate about the built environment to enter their brick projects.
It’s FREE. It’s simple. It’s easy to begin.
Student Summer Employment
Heritage Documentation Programs seeks applications from qualified students for 2018 summer employment documenting historic sites and structures of architectural, landscape, and technological significance throughout the country. Duties may involve on-site field work and preparation of measured and interpretive drawings and written historical reports for the HABS/HAER/HALS Collections at the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Projects last 12 weeks, beginning in late May or early June.
Applications are due March 16, 2018.
Positions are open to currently enrolled students carrying at least a half-time course load at an accredited institution. Students must also be enrolled in courses for autumn 2018 in order to be eligible. (Graduating students who will not be attending college in autumn 2018 are not eligible.) IDP credit is available for qualified students who successfully complete the HDP summer program.
20th Sussex Heritage Trust Awards Launches Sponsored by Harvey’s Brewery
The 2018 Sussex Heritage Trust Awards were launched at the award-winning Depot in Lewes on Tuesday 13th February.
2018 is the 20th anniversary of the Awards scheme, designed to recognise and reward high quality conservation and restoration projects, good design of newly built projects and the use of traditional skills and crafts.
The winners of the 2018 Sussex Heritage Trust Awards will be presented by the President of the Trust, Lord Egremont, on Wednesday 4 July at 12.30pm.
To enter the 2018 Awards please go to www.sussexheritagetrust.org.uk or email: info@sussexheritagetrust.com.
Churches Conservation Foundation’s grant award scheme
The scheme seeks to support young craftspeople with an interest in religious built heritage, who want to travel to increase their expertise and knowledge. Up to two awards of between £500 and £1,000 will be granted to young craftspeople. The Foundation Trustees are looking for applicants demonstrating the most innovative and enthusiastic approach to learning heritage skills, and with the clearest idea of how their own knowledge and future career in heritage will benefit from the award.
The grant can cover attendance at conferences or seminars, study tours and short-term internships. To be eligible, applicants must:
· Be under 30 years of age on April 1st 2018
· Be studying for a relevant craft or traditional building skill, or recently qualified in one
· Have a demonstrable and ongoing commitment to religious built heritage through a track record of relevant volunteering and/or study
· Be prepared to disseminate themselves what they learn through social media and also to provide photographs and a short report to the trustees, which may be published online and in any way by the foundation
Closing date for applications is Friday 26th January 2018.
To find out more and download an application form visit www.churchesconservation.org
HGSCEA Emerging Scholar Essay Prize
- Dates: 16 Oct – 18 Dec, 2017
- Location: United States
- Contact: Juliet Koss
- Email: jkoss@scrippscollege.edu
- Website: http://hgscea.org
Applications are now being accepted for the Emerging Scholars Essay Prize from the Historians of German, Scandinavian, and Central European Art and Architecture (HGSCEA), an award of $500 given annually to the author of a distinguished essay published the preceding year on any topic in the history of German, Scandinavian, or Central European art, architecture, design, or visual culture. Submissions, which must be in English and may be from electronic or print publications, must have a publication date of 2017; applicants must be either current Ph.D. students or have earned a PhD in or after 2013 and must be members of HGSCEA at the time of application. (For membership information, see hgscea.org.) The recipient of the Prize (along with honorable mentions as appropriate) will be chosen by the members of the HGSCEA Board, notified in late January 2018, and publicly announced at the HGSCEA dinner reception during the College Art Association annual conference.
Submissions should include a copy of the publication and a CV and should be sent by electronic attachment to the HGSCEA Secretary, Juliet Koss (jkoss@scrippscollege.edu), before December 18, 2017.
The Marsh Christian Trust
The Marsh Christian Trust was established in 1981 and has two main areas of work; grant-making and the Marsh Awards.
The MCT is a grant-making body which also runs an Awards Scheme of some 75 Awards in partnership with organisations across the fields of Heritage, the Arts, Social Welfare and Environmental Conservation. The Awards recognise those who voluntarily or professionally go above and beyond to make a difference to a cause that they believe in. The IHBC sees itself as a key partner in this endeavour for the current (and possible future) awards.
Grants
The Trust provides grants to registered charities working in the fields of social welfare, literature arts and heritage, environmental and animal welfare, healthcare and medical research, education and training and a small number overseas.
For further information and to check whether your organisation is eligible, please go to “Grants”
Awards
The Trust runs a portfolio of Awards with a number of internationally and nationally recognised organisations such as Barnardos, the British Museum and the Zoological Society of London. The Awards seek to recognise unsung heroes who all aim to improve the world we live in. Recipients of Marsh Awards range from scientists working in conservation biology and ecology, to authors and sculptors from the arts world, and those who give their time unselfishly to work with the young, the elderly, people with mental health issues and for our heritage.
Further details: LINK
Travel Grant: building heritage skills through travel
The Churches Conservation Foundation makes awards of between £500 and £1000 in June each year to young craftspeople showing the most innovative and enthusiastic approach to learning heritage skills, and those with the clearest idea of how the development of their knowledge and future career in heritage will benefit from the award.
Deadline for applications: Monday 15th May 2017.
TRAVEL GRANT: Building heritage skills through travel
The trustees of Churches Conservation are pleased to announce the second year of the foundation’s grant award scheme, which will be for young craftspeople with an interest in religious built heritage wanting to travel to increase their expertise and knowledge, ultimately benefitting heritage skills in the UK. Thanks to a generous donation from the foundation’s trustees, up to two awards of between £500 and £1000 will be granted in June to young craftspeople showing the most innovative and enthusiastic approach to learning heritage skills, and with the clearest idea of how their own knowledge and future career in heritage will benefit from the award.
The grant will cover the following:
- Attendance at conferences or seminars
- Study tours
- Short-term internships
To be eligible, applicants must:
- Be under 30 years of age on April 1st 2017
- Be studying for a relevant craft or traditional building skill*, or recently qualified in one
- Have a demonstrable and ongoing commitment to religious built heritage through a track record of relevant volunteering and/or study
- Be prepared to disseminate themselves what they learn through social media and also to provide photographs and a short report to the trustees, which may be published online and in any way by the foundation
Applicants are asked to complete an application form, describing how they meet the criteria, include an outline of their travel plans with a draft travel budget and attach a CV.
The award must be used to support the applicant’s main expenses in direct and demonstrable connection with heritage learning, and be used before January 1st 2018
The deadlines for all applications is Monday 15nd May. Judges will assess the applications and make awards in June.
Applications should be addressed to :-
The Chairman
Churches Conservation
c/o The Churches Conservation Trust foundation@thecct.org.uk
For details of the 2016 travel grant reports see www.churchesconservation.org
*relevant crafts or building skills are those which contribute towards the conservation of a religious heritage building and its contents, such as wall painting conservation, wood carving, stonemasonry, glass work, relevant furniture and decorative skills and others.