Competition 2026 Entry Instructions

My Intermode Home 2026

Competition Rules, Terms & Conditions:

1. Competition Details

Name of Competition: “ My Intermode Home 2026” (the Competition)

Promoter: Intermode Pty Ltd (Intermode)

Entry Period: Opens 1 October to 31 October 2026 at 11:59 pm AEDT

Maximum Entries: One (1) entry per participant.

Age limit: Entrants must be 18 years or older.

2. Prizes

1st Prize: An architect designed Concept Proposal for an Intermode House, designed to your brief and on your site located in Queensland, NSW, Victoria or Tasmania. This prize is valued at $9,900.

2nd Prize: Two bottles of wine from Yal Yal Estate Winery. This prize is valued at $96.

3. How to enter

During the Competition Period, email your Design Brief as a PDF (max 3 pages and less than 15Mb in size) to [email protected]. Include your name, contact details and nominated site address or property details (Lot/DP number). The brief may cover:

Your Story & Your Site: who will live in the home, your lifestyle, the site and what makes it special. Include site photographs if available.

Your Brief: the spaces you need and how the home should work, including family life, entertaining, outdoor living, working from home and sustainability.

Your Design Vision: Describe your perfect Intermode Home. This could be a simple sentence, a sketch or visuals. It’s up to you!

4. Optional use of AI

Entrants may use AI tools, including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude or similar platforms, to help organise ideas, write or illustrate their ideas. AI use is optional and attracts no judging preference. Entrants remain responsible for their entry, must have the right to use all submitted material and should identify AI-generated imagery where practicable. Concept imagery does not need to be technically or architecturally resolved.

5. Judging

The judges for the competition will be the Intermode Design Team. The judges decision will be final and no disputes will be entered into.

6. Eligibility and special conditions

The proposed project site must be owned by the entrant or a relative of the entrant and must be located in Queensland, New South Wales or Victoria.
If the proposed site is owned by a relative, the entrant must nominate the owner and obtain the owner’s written permission before entering.
Architects, building designers and builders are not eligible to enter.
The entrant warrants that all submitted information is true and correct and that the entry does not infringe another person’s intellectual property, privacy or other rights.

7. Winner notification

The prizewinners will be notified by email. In accordance with applicable statutory requirements, the prize winner will be published in the Journal section of the Intermode website for not less than one (1) month.

8. Prize claim and use

The prize must be claimed within twelve (12) months after the Competition closes, unless otherwise agreed in writing by Intermode.
The prize is not transferable to another person without Intermode’s express written consent and is not redeemable for cash. Intermode retains copyright in the Concept Proposal.
The Concept Proposal may not be used by a third-party architect, designer or builder without Intermode’s express written permission.
The Concept Proposal is limited to the deliverables stated below.
No changes or additional deliverables are included unless Intermode agrees otherwise in writing.

9. Privacy and promotional use

Personal information will be handled in accordance with Intermode’s Privacy Policy. Entry information will be used to administer and promote the Competition and to contact entrants about the Competition. Any broader marketing use should be subject to a separate, clearly expressed consent. Each entrant retains ownership of original entrant-created material. By entering, the entrant grants Intermode a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to reproduce and communicate the entry, or excerpts from it, for administering, announcing and promoting the Competition and its outcomes. Intermode will not publish the entrant’s full name or site address without separate written consent.

10. General

Intermode may cancel, suspend or modify the Competition where necessary due to circumstances beyond its reasonable control, subject to applicable law.

Intermode is not responsible for late, lost, corrupted, incomplete or misdirected entries caused by technical or transmission issues outside its reasonable control.

Nothing in these conditions excludes rights or remedies that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

By entering, the entrant agrees to these Competition Rules, Terms and Conditions.

11. Definition of Concept Proposal

The First Prize includes the following deliverables for an Intermode House:

+ Google maps desktop review of the site by Intermode.

+ One (1) site visit by Intermode, only where the site is located within two (2) hours of the Melbourne or Sydney CBD.

+ Written return brief for the house and garaging.

+ One (1) Site Analysis.

+ One (1) Site Plan.

+ One (1) Floor Plan.

+ One (1) Freehand Sketch.

+ Up to six (6) black-line computer-generated Renderings of the house, interior and exterior.

No changes to the above deliverables will be provided by Intermode as part of the Competition prize.

28 September 2026

My Intermode Home 2026

Competition Rules, Terms & Conditions:

1. Competition Details

Name of Competition: “ My Intermode Home 2026” (the Competition)

Promoter: Intermode Pty Ltd (Intermode)

Entry Period: Opens 1 October to 31 October 2026 at 11:59 pm AEDT

Maximum Entries: One (1) entry per participant.

Age limit: Entrants must be 18 years or older.

2. Prizes

1st Prize: An architect designed Concept Proposal for an Intermode House, designed to your brief and on your site located in Queensland, NSW, Victoria or Tasmania. This prize is valued at $9,900.

2nd Prize: Two bottles of wine from Yal Yal Estate Winery. This prize is valued at $96.

3. How to enter

During the Competition Period, email your Design Brief as a PDF (max 3 pages and less than 15Mb in size) to [email protected]. Include your name, contact details and nominated site address or property details (Lot/DP number). The brief may cover:

Your Story & Your Site: who will live in the home, your lifestyle, the site and what makes it special. Include site photographs if available.

Your Brief: the spaces you need and how the home should work, including family life, entertaining, outdoor living, working from home and sustainability.

Your Design Vision: Describe your perfect Intermode Home. This could be a simple sentence, a sketch or visuals. It’s up to you!

4. Optional use of AI

5. Judging

The judges for the competition will be the Intermode Design Team. The judges decision will be final and no disputes will be entered into.

6. Eligibility and special conditions

The proposed project site must be owned by the entrant or a relative of the entrant and must be located in Queensland, New South Wales or Victoria.

If the proposed site is owned by a relative, the entrant must nominate the owner and obtain the owner’s written permission before entering.

Architects, building designers and builders are not eligible to enter.

The entrant warrants that all submitted information is true and correct and that the entry does not infringe another person’s intellectual property, privacy or other rights.

7. Winner notification

The prizewinners will be notified by email. In accordance with applicable statutory requirements, the prize winner will be published in the Journal section of the Intermode website for not less than one (1) month.

8. Prize claim and use

The prize must be claimed within twelve (12) months after the Competition closes, unless otherwise agreed in writing by Intermode.

The prize is not transferable to another person without Intermode’s express written consent and is not redeemable for cash. Intermode retains copyright in the Concept Proposal.

The Concept Proposal may not be used by a third-party architect, designer or builder without Intermode’s express written permission.

The Concept Proposal is limited to the deliverables stated below.

No changes or additional deliverables are included unless Intermode agrees otherwise in writing.

9. Privacy and promotional use

10. General

Intermode may cancel, suspend or modify the Competition where necessary due to circumstances beyond its reasonable control, subject to applicable law.

Intermode is not responsible for late, lost, corrupted, incomplete or misdirected entries caused by technical or transmission issues outside its reasonable control.

Nothing in these conditions excludes rights or remedies that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

By entering, the entrant agrees to these Competition Rules, Terms and Conditions.

11. Definition of Concept Proposal

The First Prize includes the following deliverables for an Intermode House:

+ Google maps desktop review of the site by Intermode.

+ One (1) site visit by Intermode, only where the site is located within two (2) hours of the Melbourne or Sydney CBD.

+ Written return brief for the house and garaging.

+ One (1) Site Analysis.

+ One (1) Site Plan.

+ One (1) Floor Plan.

+ One (1) Freehand Sketch.

+ Up to six (6) black-line computer-generated Renderings of the house, interior and exterior.

No changes to the above deliverables will be provided by Intermode as part of the Competition prize.

28 September 2026

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