Key Dates, Live Presentations and Award Night Tickets

Interior Awards Finalists Portal

Congratulations on being named a finalist. You are now invited to participate in the second phase of the awards programme, which consists of a face-to-face presentation to the judging panel. We will require you to supply additional images and confirm project/practice details for publication.

Please note that to be a finalist you must be PRESENT at the live judging event to present your submission (excluding Community Impact Award finalists). In brief, this is your chance to really impress the judges!

FINALIST BADGES

Please find below your 2025 Interior Awards finalist badges. Feel free to use these on your website, email signatures, social media and marketing communications. Click here to download badges.

ADDITIONAL ITEMS REQUIRED AND DEADLINES

Please respond to the email and submit your Google Web Form. It is important to enter a valid Gmail (or Google affiliated work account) for this webform, this is so you can save your progress and upload documents. If you do not have a Gmail account, they are free to create here.

Via email: Confirm live presentation date and time, presenter(s) names (a maximum of three) – due Thursday 8th May 2025

On Google Web Form: Upload presentation, 10 x images and content – due Thursday 15th May 2025

LIVE PRESENTATIONS

DATE – Wednesday 21st and Thursday 22nd May 2025
LOCATION – Link Marketing Services – Level 30, PwC Tower, 15 Customs Street West, Auckland 1010
DIRECTION – Make your way to the lobby on Level 7 of the Pwc Tower to access the elevators.

  • Up to three key people can present the project. Please submit the names of the presenter(s) via the finalists webform above.
  • Each entrant has been allocated a 15-minute time slot. Please ensure that your presentation to the awards jury does not exceed 10 minutes, to allow for a minimum 5-minute Q&A with the judges following your presentation.
  • The presentations offer finalists an opportunity to explain their entries in more depth and elaborate on them; including information on time frames and budgets, as well as areas of creativity and innovation.
  • Entrants can also present further images to those previously submitted — with an emphasis on interior photos (rather than exterior), floor plans, renders, videos, boards or models.
  • The entire presentation, including your Q&A, will be live-streamed on ArchitectureNow and uploaded after the event. You can see examples by following links below.

Tickets will be available for purchase from Friday 16th May 2025 following the link below.

Tickets

Faq’s


➢    What format should I use for my presentation?
Please supply your presentation in .ppxt powerpoint file formatted to 16:9 aspect ratio, HD1080p. For embedded media; please re-render any Hi-Res images (especially floor plans) to a smaller format. The full width and height of your presentation will be 1920 x 1080 pixels. Please avoid including any 4K resolution files in your presentation, or images that have not been resized to fit these dimensions.

If you have any embedded videos, please could you type a ‘(VT)’  into your presentation’s file name so the AV team on the day will be prepared for it, so we can adjust sound levels for the jury to hear any audio over the video. Similarly to the last point, the broadcast and video standard for the event is 1080i50 – so if you could please also refrain from adding a 4K video to your presentation. We recommend any videos that you would like to play out, are exported as 1080i50, this will allow your videos to look the best and most cohesive to the Jury.

*Note – We also recommend that you have a test/run-through of your .pptx document in Powerpoint’s slideshow mode before you submit your presentation, as this is where issues will arise with any larger/embedded files.


➢    What AV/media will be available for the presentation?
A digital screen with appropriate A/V will be available. Your presentation will be pre-loaded in advance on a Mac and ready ahead of your scheduled presentation time. We will provide a clicker to change slides.

➢    Will judges visit finalists’ project sites?
No, the judges will not visit project sites. Winners will be selected based on face-to-face presentations by finalists.
 
➢    Where do I park when I arrive?
There is pay parking available at the Downtown Carpark.

➢    When will I find out if I have won an award?
Winners will be announced at the Awards and Networking Evening on Thursday 4th July 2024. Winners will not be notified in advance of this date. 

INTERIOR AWARDS NIGHT DETAILS & TICKETS

DATE – Thursday 4th July 2024, 6:30pm
LOCATION – St Matthew in the City
ADDRESS – 132 Hobson Street, Auckland 1024
PARKING – Parking

Tickets will be available for purchase from TBA. Please take advantage of your early access as this event has been sold out for the past 12 years.
www.interiorawards.co.nz/tickets/