The Interior Awards celebrate excellence in design and architecture across commercial, residential and community spaces. The quest to find the country’s top interior projects and designers is about to begin.

Finalists will compete for a share of $12,500 in cash prizes, $6,000 of which will go to the Supreme winner, $1,500 to the Emerging Design Professional winner, and $5,000 divied up between the three finalists in the Community Impact category, with $3000 going to the community supporting the winning project and $1000 to the community of each runner-up.

Key dates

• Entries open – 21 January 2025
• Early-bird discount ends – 7 March 2025
• Entries close – 30 April 2025
• Finalists present live – 21 and 22 May 2025
• Awards night – 26 June 2025

The Awards categories are: Retail; Hospitality; Civic; Healthcare and Wellness; Workplace (up to 1000m2); Workplace (over 1000m2); Education; Residential; Residential Kitchen; Emerging Design Professional; and Community Impact.*

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View the 2024 Interior Awards winners and browse the 2024 Interior Awards social gallery containing highlights of the 2024 Interior Awards evening.

^{*To be eligible for the Community Impact Award, projects must have been completed and handed over to the client or community between 1 January 2020 and 31 August 2023. Projects entered into the award categories of Workplace, Civic, Education, Hospitality, Retail, and Healthcare and Wellness must have been completed between September 2023 to April 2025; Residential and Residental Kitchen projects must have been completed between April 2023 to April 2025.}