Applications for Project Awards, for projects commencing on or after 1 March 2024 through to 31 December 2024, will open on 10 October 2023 and close on 16 November 2023. 

This funding round is for Projects commencing in 2024. Deadlines for applications for Projects commencing in 2025 will be announced later this year.

The purpose of this fund

The award supports specific projects in the field of Architecture. The purpose of the award is to support:

• the making of innovative and challenging new work;

• the making of work which develops the arts practice of architects;

• the making of work which develops theoretical and/or practical aspects of architecture;

• ambitious, high-quality initiatives that deliver a presentation to an audience.

Update on the Architecture Project Award

The former Engaging with Architecture Scheme has been incorporated into Strand 1 and Strand 3 of the Architecture Project Award. The Architecture Project Award comprises three strands:

• Strand 1 Research and Development – for exploring, testing and developing ideas in architecture that relate to and could be developed in time into either Production (Strand 2) OR Engagement (Strand 3) projects
• Strand 2 Production – for once-off ambitious new work from architects or architecture graduates at all career stages, in, or about, architecture
• Strand 3 Engagement - for public engagement projects.

Please see Strand 3 Engagement of the Project Award if you have ideas for public engagement projects (that are ambitious, innovative, creative and that specifically aim to enhance and extend the public’s experience of, and involvement with, architecture) or see Strand 1 Research and Development if you wish to explore, test and develop ideas in architecture that relate to and could be developed into either Strand 2 (Production) OR Strand 3 (Engagement) projects.