
Arcaid has shortlisted 20 of the year’s best architectural photographs in the running for the 2016 Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards. The annual award presents prizes in four categories - Exteriors, Interiors, Sense of Place, and Building in Use - and judged by an esteemed panel on their atmospheric quality, composition, use of scale and more.
This year, judges for the award include Emily Booth, executive editor of The Architectural Review; artist and Sto Werkstatt curator Amy Croft; Katy Harris, director of communications at Foster + Partners; architect Kai-Uwe Bergmann of BIG and photographers Fernando Guerra and Ulrich Müller.
The photographs will be showcased at World Architecture Festival from November 16-18 in Berlin, Germany, where the overall winner will be announced. The shortlist of 20 images is as follows:
Buildings in Use

Photographer: Fabrice Fouillet
Building: Musee de Confluences, Lyon, France / Coop Himmelb(l)au

Photographer: Adrien Barakat
Building: Allianz Headquarters, Zurich, Switzerland / Wiel Arets Architects

Photographer: Julien Lanoo
Building: Independence Square, Accra, Ghana

Photographer: Laurian Ghinitoiu
Building: ‘Forest of Light’ for COS, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy / Sou Fujimoto Architects

Photographer: Torsten Andreas Hoffmann
Subject: Dharavi, Mumbai, India
Exteriors

Photographer: Nick Almasy
Building: Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, China / Gensler/Marshall Strabala

Photographer: Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre
Building: SESC Pompeia, Sao Paolo, Brazil / Lina Bo Bardi

Photographer: Edmund Sumner
Building: Lattice House, Kashmir, India / sP+A Architects (Sameep Padora)

Photographer: Julien Lanoo
Building: Vitra Shaudepot, Weil am Rhein, Germany / Herzog & de Meuron

Photographer: Sebastian Weiss
Building: Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland / Yrjo Lindegren and Toivo Jantti
Interiors

Photographer: Fabrice Fouillet
Building: Jesus Church, San Sebastian, Spain / Rafael Moneo

Photographer: James Newton
Building: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, United Kingdom / Selgascano

Photographer: Kilian O’Sullivan
Subject: Interior and portrait of Derry Road Resident on the Queen’s Birthday / Bell Phillips Architects

Photographer: Matt Emmett
Building: Covered Reservoir, Finsbury Park, London, United Kingdom / East London Water Works Company 1868

Photographer: Will Scott
Subject: Helical Staircase in Workshop, Littlehampton, United Kingdom / Finkernagel Ross Architects
Sense of Place

Photographer: Victor Romero
Building: Baku National Stadium, Azerbaijan / ROSSETTI with Heerim Architects

Photographer: Paul Turang
Building: Hygge House Warming Hut, Winnipeg, Canada / Plain Projects, Pike Projects, Urbanink

Photographer: Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre
Building: Blok 23, Novi Beograd, Belgrade, Serbia / Aleksandar Stjepanovic

Photographer: Julien Lanoo
Building: The stage for Haduwa Arts & Culture Institute, Ghana / [a]FA [applied] foreign affairs

Photographer: Mark Wohlrab
Building: Bruder Klaus Field Chapel, Mechernich-Wachendorf, Germany / Peter Zumthor
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