Terracotta Design Awards Categories

TDA 2026 - Home Feature Your Project Terracotta Facades Terracotta Futures Terracotta Reimagined

Competetion Category Terracotta Reimagined

Create, prototype, and showcase new terracotta products.

Product and element design that expands what terracotta can do, in form, system, or application. Work that treats the unit, not just the building, as the site of invention.

Eligible

Jaali systems
Brick innovations
Surface systems
Screens
Modular systems
Interior and exterior components

What Strengthens Your Submission?

A new or expanded use case for terracotta
Smart and considered relationship between form and function
Repeatable, manufacturable, and real-world thinking
Useful at an actual project level
Innovation in unit and system logic, not only appearance
Elegant detailing and resolution
Sustainability and material efficiency considered in the design
The design balances innovation with constructability and maintenance logic
Work that is kind to the earth is stronger when it can show how

Include at least one image showing the product or element in use or in context, not only as an isolated object. Technical drawings strongly encouraged.

Registration Closes
18 August 2026
Submission Deadline
24 September 2026
Award Ceremony
24 October 2026

We're happy to assist with your submission.

Get in touch with our team

awards@nuvocotto.com