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Design Competition - NT Awards
As part of this year’s NT Awards Night celebrations, we are hosting a fun and informal architectural design competition for table centrepieces.
Participants are invited to design and fabricate small-scale architectural models that house an LED tealight candle, creating a glowing object that will sit on the dining tables throughout the evening. These pieces will collectively transform the room into a miniature architectural exhibition.
This is a creative, light-hearted competition open to anyone in the architecture and design community – whether working solo or as a group.
How will it work?
What: Small architectural models that house an LED tealight candle, to be displayed as centrepieces on the dining tables at the NT Awards.
How to enter: Drop off your creation at the George Brown Gardens Visitor Centre. Be sure to write your name or your studio’s name under your piece.
Deadline: Friday, 26 June
Judging: Judging will take place on the night of the NT Awards.
Prize: Dulux Colour Atlas, courtesy of the Institute’s Principal Partner, Dulux.
ENTRY FEES
| Chapter | Standard entry fee (ex gst) | A+ Membership Fee (10% discount) ex gst |
|---|---|---|
| NT | $700 | $630 |
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Entries for 2026 opened on Monday 17 November 2025.
To enter the Australian Institute of Architects Architecture Awards Program, an entrant must be a registered architect and Institute member. To be eligible to enter, entrants must meet the following three requirements:
1. Member Status
- be an architect registered in the State or Territory of the project or deemed to be registered in the State or Territory under the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 (Cmwlth), and
- be an Institute Member at the time of entry, and
- be a principal of the practice who owns, or is a formal licensee, of the copyright in the work being entered.
2. Practical Completion
- The project must have reached practical completion by 31 December in the year proceeding the year of judging. (e.g. To be eligible for the 2024 National Architecture Awards, your project must have reached practical completion by 31 December 2023)
Projects must receive a PASS result in at least 2 out of the 6 sections (General, Projection of Land and Ecological Systems, Siting and Urban Design, Energy Efficiency and Consumption, Selection of Building Materials and Process & Social Issues) on the Sustainable Architecture checklist located at the beginning of the online entry form*. This does not guarantee consideration in the Sustainable Architecture category, you must opt in to do so via the online entry
form.*Entrants in the Small Project Architecture and Heritage categories are still required to complete the checklist to the best of their ability but are NOT required to meet the minimum 2 out of 6 result and are exempt from this requirement.
Watch this video to understand the changes made regarding the sustainability checklist.
ENTRY HANDBOOK
AWARDS AND PRIZES POLICY
Policy
Before submitting an entry into the Chapter Architecture Awards, please become familiar with the Awards, Prizes and Honours Policy.
Terms and conditions
Ensure you also read the Terms and Conditions before submitting an entry.
Consent forms
It is the entrant’s responsibility to ensure that the following Copyright Consent Forms are completed and signed. Entrants are required to submit these forms to the Institute as part of the online entry system.
2026 KEY DATES
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Entries Open | 17 November, 2026 |
| Entries Close | 20 March, 2026 |
| Jury Presentations | 13 - 17 April, 2026 |
| NT Awards Night | 27 June, 2026 |
NT ARCHITECTURE PRIZES
Akeyulerre Healing Centre | Susan Dugdale & Associates | Photographer: Sue Dugdale
The Indigenous Community Architecture Award
Jabiru Health Centre | Platt Architects | Photographer: Skelton Studio
The Tracy Memorial Award
Larrakeyah Passchendaele Refurbishment | GHD Design | Photographer: Shaana McNaught
EmAGN Project Award
People's Choice Award
M+J Builders Office Fitout | Hames Sharley | Photographer: Shaana McNaught Photography
2026 JURY
We are thrilled to officially announce the appointed Jury for the 2026 NT Architecture Awards.
These awards celebrate the diversity of built outcomes across the state and the vital contributions of our local members. We congratulate those selected; each juror brings unique expertise to the rigorous peer-review process that defines Australia’s most esteemed architecture awards.
Join us in June 2026, where the winners will be announced in a fantastic evening set to celebrate excellence and innovation.
VIEW JURY LIST
- JURY CHAIR – Katherine Ashe
- LAY JUROR – Jan-Marie Jaillei
- ARCHITECT JURY – Les Platt
Katherine Ashe
Katherine Ashe has been teaching, practising, and studying architecture in Western Australia since 1996. Her work explores a range of approaches to architectural design and seeks creative diversity through relationships with different institutions, industry, research, and studio education. These innate connective tendencies emerge as a symbiotic studio-teaching approach and experimental practice.
Katherine is a co-founder of vittinoAshe architects in Boorloo/Perth and a senior lecturer/co-chair of the architectural design stream at the University of Notre Dame in Walyalup/Fremantle. Currently undertaking a design practice-based PhD at RMIT, she is using case studies, diverse modes of working, and speculative projects to explore processes that embed architecture in its situation. Influenced by her childhood in the remote desert regions of Australia, Katherine is particularly interested in developing a project-specific capacity to foreground deeply felt knowledge – Traditional and Western – to integrate into her creative works.
vittinoAshe, co-directed with Marco Vittino, is a small studio committed to a process-driven, collaborative architectural production. Projects are of varying scales and types, from strategic visioning to small, highly crafted interiors, where resonant traces, people, places and stories all begin to coalesce. Katherine is a registered Architect and in 2018 received the Western Australian Institute of Architects’ Emerging Architects Prize, recognising her ongoing contribution to practice, education and research.
Jan-Marie Jaillei
An award-winning interior designer with over 25 years of international experience, Jan-Marie Jaillei has honed her craft across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Trained at London’s renowned Inchbald School of Design in Interior Architecture and holds a diploma in Architectural Feng Shui from the New York Design Institute, her approach blends global design influences with modern luxury.
As the founder of Darwin-based JMJ Interiors for the past 10 years she leads a talented team in delivering bespoke residential and commercial projects from concept through to completion of build. A respected industry leader and Deputy Chair of the DIA SA/NT branch, Jan-Marie is honoured to serve as a lay juror for the 2026 Architecture Awards.
Les Platt
Les has been a practicing Architect in the Northern Territory since 1981, bringing decades of expertise across a diverse range of project types. He has extensive experience in remote community and health infrastructure and is a dedicated advocate for sustainable design. Notably, Les delivered the first two green-rated buildings in the Northern Territory, and his commitment to excellence was recognised last year when he received the Tracy Memorial Award for the Jabiru Health Centre.
Expressions of interest to join the 2026 NSW Architecture Awards Jury are open now!
Online Juror Applications close strictly at 11:59pm Thursday, 23 October 2025.
Architects on all juries must be Institute members (Member Level 1, Fellows, or Life Fellows). Non architects, including lay-jurors or expert advisors, are not required to be Institute members.
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