The Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2023 is open to architects, designers and makers worldwide.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award aims to celebrate and promote the role of drawing within architecture, design and making processes. It is a special category within the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition and has a separate Entry Process and Selection Panel.

This Working Drawing Award of aims to explore the role of drawing in design and making processes today and to expand and enhance our knowledge and understanding of working drawings – drawings from which something can or will be made, fabricated or constructed. It is anticipated that architects, designers, engineers, makers, planners, scientists, amongst others, who use drawings to ideate, plan and communicate designs will submit their drawings.

This award of £2,000 is open for drawings by architects, designers and makers. It will be selected by Ben Heath, Principal, Grimshaw Architects; Debbie Hillyerd, Senior Director of Learning, Hauser & Wirth; Michael Pavelka, Costume & Set Designer for Stage, Screen, and Opera.

Up to three drawings may be registered by each applicant for consideration by the Working Drawing Award Selection Panel.

The selected working drawings will form a special display as part of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition from 28 September to 15 October 2023 which will then tour to venues in the UK until June 2024, and will be included in a fully illustrated exhibition publication.

The Call for Entries is open to all drawing practitioners worldwide, whether they are emerging, mid-career or established.

The deadline for the Working Drawing Award is Monday 5 June 2023, 5pm BST.

Applications are made online: https://tbwdpworkingdrawings.artopps.co.uk/online-entry/