2026 PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

If you have a passion for the built environment and urban landscape enter the 2026 Sunshine Coast Open House Photography Competition. Snap your photos over the Sunshine Coast Open House program between Friday 16 October and Sunday 25 October 2026.

Deadline for entries: Friday 30 October.

Entries can be submitted in five categories:

Exterior
People
Interior
Timber
Landscape/Garden

With one winner being selected from across all categories. The overall winner will be awarded $1000 in prize money.

Entries are judged on creativity, quality, and significance to architecture by a panel of architects, built environment photographers and industry representatives.

The Sunshine Coast Open House Photography Competition is proudly sponsored by Queensland Timber Flooring

Queensland Timber Flooring

DISCOVER THE WINNERS FROM 2025

WINNER – OVERALL: Nik Kahler, Landscape, Sunshine Coast City Hall (2025)

WINNER – STUDENT: Sienna Topp, Moon Mountain Sanctuary (2025)

2025 COMMENDATIONS


Exterior – Angela van Boxtel – St Marys Church

Exterior – Chris Riou – Moon Mountain Sanctuary

Exterior – Jack Reid – Pan Pottery

Exterior – Jess Hume – Caloundra Lighthouses

Exterior – Katie Saxby – Lyrebird
Exterior – Kel Callaghan – Moffatt Morphing House

Exterior – Nicky Ford – Caloundra Lighthouses
Exterior – Piers Cunningham
Exterior – Prue Henschke
Exterior – Susan Dickens
Exterior – Tom Collins
Exterior – Bella Rogers- Lyerbird
Exterior – Geoff Simon – City Hall
Exterior – Jess Lamb – Moon Mountain-Sanctuary
Exterior – Katie Anderson – Moffat Morphing House

Exterior – Kerry Mulgrew – Moffat Beach House
Exterior – Shaun.Lauder – Moffat Morphing House
Exterior – Peta Hempsall – Majestic Theatre Pomona
Exterior – Deborah Mooney – Wilson Beach House Garage Door
interior – Angela van Boxtel – Halse Lodge
Interior – Chris Riou – Kite House
Interior – Jack Reid
Interior – John Mainwaring
Interior – Nicky Ford
Interior – Susan Dickens
Interior – Valerie Roose
Interior – Will Reid – Pan Pottery
Interior – Adrian Clement – Kijiji
Interior – Andrea_Dudley – Kite House
Interior – Bella Rogers -Lyerbird
Interior – Geoff Simon – Caloundra Lighthouses
Interior – Katie Anderson – Moffat Morphing House
Interior – Shaun Lauder – Moffat Morphing House
Landcape – Millie Murray – Moon Mountain Sanctuary
Landscape – Angela van Boxtel – Moffat Morphing House
Landscape – Chris Riou – Moon Mountain Sanctuary
Landscape – Hedley Cunningham
Landscape – Nicole Stevens – Alsahwa-Estate
Landscape – Tom Collins
Landscape -Will Reid
Landscape – Jess Lamb -Wallumburn- House and Garden
Landscape – Katie Anderson – Moffatt Morphing
Landscape – Shaun Lauder – Moffatt Morphing House
Landscape – Deborah Mooney – Wilson Beach House
People – Angela van Boxtel – Lyrebird House
People – Chris_Riou – Pan Pottery Studio
People – Jack Reid
People – Katie Saxby – Lyrebird
People – Kristy Mylrea
People – Lyn Donald
People – Nicole Stevens – Alsahwa Estate

People – Sophie Galbally
People – Susan Dickens
People – Tom Collins
People – Will Reid – Pan Pottery Studio

People – Andrea Dudley – Wilson Beach House
People – Bella Rogers – Lyrebird
People – Geoff Simon – Caloundra Lighthouses
People – Katie Anderson – Moffat Morphing House
Timber – Angela van Boxtel – Moffatt Morphing House

Timber – Chris Riou – Kite House
Timber – Jess Hume – The Wheelhouse
Timber – Kate Rankine – Bariya Rainforest-House
Timber – Katie Saxby – Lyrebird
Timber – Kel Callaghan
Timber – Tom Collins
Timber – Will Reid
Timber – Bella Rogers – Kijiji

Timber – Jessica Brooking – Kijiji

Timber – Katie Anderson – Moffatt Morphing House
Timber-Deborah Mooney-Wilson Beach House

2025 STUDENT COMMENDATIONS

Exterior – Rory Cunningham
Exterior – Sienna Topp
Exterior – Matthew Wroe
Interior – Zan Lauder
Interior – Zan Lauder
Lansdscape – Jessica Wroe
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

Sunshine Coast Open House acknowledges the traditional Country of the Kabi Kabi and the Jinibara Peoples of the coastal plains and hinterlands of the Sunshine Coast, and recognises that these have always been places of cultural, spiritual, social and economic significance. We wish to pay respect to their Elders – past, present and emerging, and acknowledge the important role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people continue to play within the Sunshine Coast community.