Special criteria

• The project has to be a rehabilitation or restoration of an existing building located in any city in India, which was previously underused or abandoned.
• The new building should have been designed for private use or a public activity like theatre, library, museum, etc.
• Participants must submit a maximum of 10 professionally shot photographs each of what the building was before and what the structure is now. These must be put together as a presentation in a PDF format.

Entry rules & regulations:

• Participants must upload their entries on the microsite in PDF, JPEG or PNG format only. It is an online submission.
• Entries can also be submitted by email at kbda@kohler.com. Entries submitted over email must include the following details: designer name, firm name, contact details, company website, category and sub-category, project description (in 300 words or less) and project location.
• Submissions must include sketches, plans, elevations, any other before and after images of the space with professionally shot pictures (interiors and exteriors).
• The number of pages in the PDF/Images should not exceed 10. The total file size should not be greater than 50 MB.
• The project should be described as per the guideline questions in a document in 300 words or less. All information on the project must be addressed through ONE sheet of the PDF only.
• The project must be absolutely complete and based in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka & Maldives.
• The project should not be more than 5 years old (not older than 2017).
• Projects that have won or been nominated in previous KBDAs are not eligible to re enter.