GROHE × FOAID · 2026 edition
Two tracks, five categories and fifteen winners, plus three honorary awards decided by GROHE. Built work by India's architects and interior designers, and a conceptual challenge open to all.
The programme structure
By typology
Multiple entries allowed for built projects completed between 1 Oct 2024 and 30 Sep 2026, in up to 2 categories. Top 3 per category: 12 winners.
Conceptual · one brief
A common floor plan and the GROHE product catalogue are given to every participant to design a bath space. The top 3 projects are awarded.
About the ChallengeAbove the categories
Public vote among the four Track 1 (Built Work) first-place winners. GROHE Challenge winners are not eligible. Announced last on the night.
Highest-scoring practice under five years old across all entries, derived from the jury scores.
Design leadership for a body of work, not a single room. Optional and jury-conferred. Continues the precedent GROHE set in 2024.
The honorary awards are decided by GROHE and presented only to eligible submissions featuring GROHE products.
Eligibility
Registered practices of every scale, metro and non-metro.
Studios with built bath-space work in the last 18 months.
Practices under five years old. The entry form identifies young firms for Emerging Practice of the Year.
Track 1 is entered by the practice that designed the built space. Track 2 is open to all. Free to enter.
The process
On this portal, with your documents.
Up to 2 Built Work categories, plus the Challenge.
Drawings, images and statements.
Before 15 Nov 2026.
Track 1 · Built
Plans, sections, at least 5 photographs, client brief, concept note and design process.
Track 2 · GROHE Challenge
Brief response, concept drawings, plans and renders.
One registration covers every entry from a practice. Free at every stage. All entries are anonymised on receipt: the jury sees a code, never your name.
Awards timeline
Registration push runs 10 Oct – 5 Nov.
Upload entries any time until the deadline.
Final extension, if announced: 30 Nov 2026.
GROHE brand reps grade entries A, B or C as they arrive.
A-grade entries scored online by the jury.
Email, WhatsApp, Instagram, LinkedIn, website and PR.
At The Collective Spa, GROHE's annual flagship event.
The jury
Three jurors per category for the Built track, across four categories.
Three jurors for The GROHE Challenge (conceptual) track.
All entries are judged on the same four criteria. Track 2 brief responses carry additional weight on spatial idea and use of GROHE products.
Round 1
Round 2
Honorary
Winner rewards
Commissioned from an Indian product designer. An object with a story.
Written judgement under the jurors' names. A permanent record.
A curated travel experience with India's leading architecture community.
Shot on location. Yours to use, ours to publish.
The annual publication of India's best bath spaces.
A professional shoot with full usage rights for the practice.
National and international design press and platforms.
An international stage for Indian work.
Badge, certificate, social assets and a press template.
The 365-day plan
GROHE's annual flagship event, where the awards ceremony happens. The night that launches everything.
Breakthrough ideas in bathrooms. Sent to studios, displayed at events.
Monthly conversations with jury members, winners and shortlisted practices.
Exhibition tour, experience-centre activations, city masterclasses led by winners.
Open call, shortlist reveal, winner announcements and Room of the Month.
Live sessions with jury members and winners, open to the profession all year.
One film per winner, released weekly. Each one a standalone piece.
Films, citations, photography and jury conversations, reused all year.
Only three months need new production. Everything else is the ceremony, redistributed.
The GROHE annual publication
GROHE's name on the spine. Every year.
Title options
Keynote speakers
Europe
BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group)
DenmarkZHA
UKStefano Boeri Architetti
ItalySnøhetta
NorwaySouth & Southeast Asia
WOW Architects
SingaporeAndra Matin Architects
IndonesiaWOHA
SingaporeBedmar & Shi
SingaporeSubject to confirmation and availability.
Questions
Yes. Entering is free at every stage, and one registration covers every entry from your practice.
You can submit multiple Built Work entries in up to 2 categories, and enter The GROHE Challenge as well.
Bath spaces completed between 1 Oct 2024 and 30 Sep 2026, entered by the practice that designed them.
Not for the category awards. The three honorary awards are presented only to eligible entries featuring GROHE products, so the form asks which products you used.
No. Every entry is anonymised on receipt and shown to reviewers and jurors only by its code. Do not put your name, firm name, watermarks or photo credits in any file.
Yes, until the deadline, as long as the preliminary review has not graded the entry.
Register once, save drafts as you go, and submit before 15 Nov 2026.