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One Drawing Challenge: Public Vote Now Open!

This is your chance to celebrate and reward the communicative power of great architectural drawings.

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Finally, the moment has come: The Public Voting Period for the very first One Drawing Challenge is now open! This is your chance to celebrate and reward the communicative power of great architectural drawings, helping us to crown 2 Top Winners as inaugural champions in the process.

Voting is free, quick and easy — simply click the button below to head to the Public Voting Gallery and begin selecting your favorite drawings:

View One Drawing Challenge Entries

You are limited to one vote per day per entry, you can vote for as many entries as you like. Click on an entry to see an enlarged version, and share your favorites with the hashtag #OneDrawingChallenge to join in the hype!

After the Public Voting Period closes, the 100 eligible entries with the most votes will be named Finalists. These Finalists will then be scored by our expert jury to decide the 2 Top Winners and 10 Runners’ Up.

Remember, you are voting based on which drawings best answer the competition’s big question: Can you tell a powerful architectural story with a single drawing?

For more details on the three main competition criteria, head this way.

As a reminder, the Top Winners will receive the following prizes:

  • $2,500 prize money
  • iPad Pro (12.9-inch, 256GB)
  • Apple Pencil (2nd Generation)
  • Procreate software package
  • Luxury drawing and marker sets by Sakura and COPIC
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Ambidextrous Architecture by Mohammed Syafiq Hassan Jubri (example image; not an entry for the One Drawing Challenge). Image Courtesy of World Architecture Festival

We encourage you to share the Entrants’ Gallery with your friends and colleagues across social media, because the more people that vote, the better picture we get of what truly great architectural drawings look like today.

The Entrants’ Gallery will open on August 26th, 2019 at 9am EST, when the Public Voting Period begins. The Public Voting Period will then run until midnight on September 6th, 2019.

Good luck to all entrants in this year’s biggest architectural ideas competition!

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