II – COMPETITION RULES
_ Article 1: Purpose
Through the organization of the Prix W 2025 award, the Foundation emphasizes the level of importance of the architectural and urban grafting for the preservation of the European heritage and its evolution in our contemporary world. In addition, the Foundation wishes to offer the opportunity for future architects to test and fine-tune their creative potential.
_ Article 2: Entry guidelines
The competition is open to architecture students and young architects from European Union and Switzerland schools but also Serbia, Montenegro, Ukraine and Georgia… who graduated after 1 January 2022. They will have to prove their current or past registration in a school. Participation in the competition may be individual or as a team of a maximum of two people, each member of the team having to meet the criteria mentioned above.
A candidate may only participate once in the competition and with one project. Multiple entries will automatically result in individual and collective disqualification if the entry is made as part of a team.
Employees of Wilmotte & Associés, current or former, may not participate directly or indirectly in the competition. Their participation will automatically lead to individual and collective disqualification, if they participate as part of a team.
Participation is free.
_ Article 3: Organization of the competition
The languages of the competition are French and English. All the documents submitted must be made in either one of these two languages.
Registration
Registration have to be online on www.prixw.com.
Documents are available for download after registration.
Questions – Answers
Questions about the project or the procedure can be submitted on the prixw.com website until midnight on 17 March 2025. Answers will be communicated to all participants through the website (prixw.com).
Handing in of the projects
The deadline for handing in the projects online from 24 March until 30 March 2025 at noon. You can send your projects from 17 March 2025 on prixw@wilmotte.fr.
Applicants must comply with the submission criteria as set out in the competition specifications below.
Applicants who do not comply with these criteria will be disqualified.
Any complaints must be made within fourteen days of the announcement of the results.
Results
The jury will meet in the days following the submission to select the winners. The awards ceremony will take place on 8 May 2025 at the Foundation's gallery in Venice. The winning projects will be exhibited and presented to the press on that occasion.
The first three winners are required to attend this event, otherwise they will lose the awards listed below.
The Foundation will cover the travel and accommodation costs of the 3 winning teams.
*Students from the UK are still eligible to participate in the competition.
In case of dispute, only the French rules will be valid.
_ Article 4: Selection of prize-winners
The Jury
The international jury is composed of architects, journalists, urban planners and other qualified figures. The president of the jury will be elected by its co-jurors.
Jury organization
The jury selects the projects from 31 March to 4 April 2025. The names of the Winners will be released after final jury deliberation.
The selected projects will be exhibited to the public during the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 and will be published by the Foundation.
Selection Criteria
The jury will award the prizes based on the following criteria:
Site analysis
Originality and creativity of the concept
Quality of urban and architectural graft
Quality of the render
Clarity of the proposition
This list is not exhaustive list and is given as an indication. The order and weighting criteria are left to the discretion of the jury.
The jury may nominate projects or award special distinctions if it deems necessary. It may also decide not to award all the prizes if the quality or the number of submitted projects proves to be insufficient.
_ Article 5: PRIZES
The prizes will be attributed as follows:
1st Prize: The first prize-winner will receive a 8,000 Euros grant.
2nd Prize: The second prize winner will receive a 6,000 Euros grant.
3rd Prize: The third prize-winner will receive a 3,000 Euros grant.
The three winners and the projects mentioned will be exhibited in Venice at the Wilmotte Foundation Gallery during the 2025 International Architecture Biennale.
All these projects will also be included in a publication dedicated to the Prix W.
Participants will not be entitled to any other compensation.
_ Article 6: Ownership and use of projects and information provided by the candidates
Documents and projects submitted will not be returned to the candidates.
The organisers reserve the right of non-commercial usage of the projects and identity of the participants, for exhibition, publication and communication purposes for which they are to be the sole judges, without limitation in time. The organisers may also make copies (meaning textual, graphic or photographic representations) of submitted documents for the same purposes.
The participants remain owners of their projects and of their rights of exploitation.
In application of the French «database and privacy» law (law 78-17 of January 6th 1978 regarding data processing and privacy), the participants are hereby informed that the personal information collected for the present competition is necessary for the organisation of the competition. The information is for the sole usage of the Wilmotte Foundation. By the act of registering and transmitting personal information, competition candidates agree to these conditions, and are entitled to access and correct this information.
_ Article 7: GUIDELINES
The Wilmotte Foundation reserves the right to extend or, in case of absolute necessity, to cancel the present contest. The Wilmotte Foundation undertakes to inform the participants of this, but cannot be held responsible for this.
In case of ambiguity or conflict, the interpretations given by the President of the Jury to the French version of the present rules, the subject and the specifications will be considered authoritative.
Registration for the competition implies full acceptance and adherence to these rules
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Each team/participant may submit only one project. The submission must be made in electronic format.
It will be done in one go on the website www.prixw.com/submission25 before March 30, 2025.
Please read the conditions of participation below and consult the F.A.Q. regularly
