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 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.

We anticipate receiving submissions of notational or planning drawings, drawings that relate to ideation, sketches, detail drawings, assembly drawings, and other working drawings that represent design and planning, and the communication of designs and ideas to others, for this discrete display within the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition.

Working Drawings are understood to be:

• Drawings from which something can be made
• Drawings that communicate or illustrate an idea as part of a process towards production
• Drawings that facilitate working through the development of an idea
• Drawings that form an instruction to others to fabricate or construct in any area that drawings are used in this way.

Applications for the Working Drawing Award is by online submission only.  Up to three drawings may be registered by each applicant for consideration by the Working Drawing Award Selection Panel.

All eligible drawing practitioners are invited to submit their entries HERE.

Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award – £2,000

The selected working drawings will form a special display as part of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition and will be included in a fully illustrated exhibition publication. The drawings for this display will be chosen by the Selection Panel and will be formed of works that the expert panel consider to be exemplary working drawings. Supplementary material may also be requested for the final display. The decision of the Selection Panel is final and binding, and no correspondence will be entered into. Please note that we do not expect working drawings to be framed although this may be appropriate for some drawings.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2023 will be selected by:

Online registration and upload of digital images of drawings by 5pm on Monday 5 June 2023.

Please note that all entrants for the Working Drawing Award are required to complete the online entry form, select the number of works they wish to submit, and upload digital images of their drawings.

Entrants are asked to carefully read the Rules & Guidelines for the Working Drawing Award and will be asked to confirm acceptance of these rules and guidelines during the online registration process.

The Project Manager for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Parker Harris, may be contacted by email: tbwdp@parkerharris.co.uk – please note that this is a Working Drawing Award enquiry in the subject heading of your email.

PLEASE NOTE: Entrants are welcome to submit drawings for both the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award AND the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition.

There will be submission and collection points at the following locations for full details please see Links and Downloads.

Applicants may submit up to three drawings on payment of a single Entry Fee for the Working Drawing Award:

Standard Entry: £15

Student Entry: £10

All applicants for the Working Drawing Award will be informed by email of the outcome of the Selection Process by 5pm on Monday 12 June 2023. The email will be from tbwdp@parkerharris.co.uk

If you do not receive an email by Monday 12 June 2022, please contact the Project Manager, Parker Harris, by telephone on 020 3653 0896 or by email at: tbwdp@parkerharris.co.uk

Following the selection process, those with drawings shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award must then send their drawings to a Collection Centre in July 2023 (for further details regarding the dates and times for delivery of works, please see the Submissions & Collections Timetable PDF in the Downloads/Links section of this website) along with completed Work Submission Form and Work Labels. There is no charge for use of a Collection Centre. Alternatively, selected Working Drawings may be sent (by mail/courier) directly to Trinity Buoy Wharf by 5pm on 17 July 2023.

All works selected for the Working Drawing Award as part of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 will be retained from the point of delivery for the duration of the exhibition and exhibition tour from July 2023 to July 2024.