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World Photography Day: 25 Rising Architectural Photographers to Watch in 2025

ArchDaily Team — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Architectural photography provides a window into the built world, making significant structures more accessible to people who may never have the chance to visit them. A good architectural photograph captures more than just the physical structure; it conveys the mood, scale, and context of a space. Each photograph is unique and shaped by the photographer's eye, which conveys their sensitivity and perception of the built environment through their lens.

Tasik Creative and Innovation Center / SHAU Indonesia

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Tasik Creative and Innovation Center is designed by SHAU as an example of ‘socio-climatic’ design strategy specifically tailored to the context of West Java, Indonesia. It was commissioned by former Governor Ridwan Kamil to support emerging creative communities and individual artists in Tasikmalaya, a vibrant city with approximately 733,000 inhabitants, located 120km Southeast of Bandung and known for its weaving craftsmanship.

Halo House / Tamara Wibowo Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:00:00 +0000

Quietly sitting in the corner of a calm neighborhood in Semarang, Halo House takes form of contemporary barn that is arranged in respect to location of existing trees on site while adopting passive design in the house. There are two components in the house; one is the pitched roof structures arranged in elongated manner along the north south axis, another is the thin platform in the center connecting the pitched roof structures. This platform is then punctured where existing trees are located in a circular manner while defining the courtyard throughout the house. The circular expression is then adopted further to accentuate main areas, such as entry, dining area, and swimming pool. These circular voids, or as we call them “halo”, give strong characteristics to the architecture and spatial experience in the house. The halo allows light to penetrate in an interesting form into the house throughout the day and gives shape to the falling rainwater.

Microlibrary MoKa / SHAU Indonesia

Hana Abdel — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Microlibrary MoKa (Modular Kayu) was developed with the idea of cost efficiency, and prefabrication, to be delivered as a flat-packed building system on-site to be assembled with minimal impact in a short time. The building modules are based on plywood boards as a basic measurement to avoid cutting and wasting materials as much as possible. Several of the modules can be arrayed and arranged to form larger configurations according to functional needs.

Paamprokan Square / SHAU Indonesia

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 19:00:00 +0000

Pangandaran is a town on the south coast of West Java with a population of 420.000 people in 2020, locally known for its beach and nature tourism. Paamprokan square is part of Governor Ridwan Kamil's priority public space programs for West Java. 'Paamprokan' means 'to gather' in Sundanese. This public space is an example of a public-private synergy with a developer. To gain direct access from the beach road to their property area through government-owned land, the developer donated the construction of the square.

Lava House / Atelier Riri

Hana Abdel — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 21:00:00 +0000

Lava House took inspiration from the nearby Mount Merapi, inspiring the melting-like look in the roof and stairs. The Volcano also inspired the organic-shaped semi-public space on the first floor. The design aimed to bring more in-depth spatial experiences indoors and bridge the indoors with the outdoors.

Twisted Detached House / Phidias Indonesia

Hana Abdel — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 20:00:00 +0000

Situated on a corner site, this house has two facades with one additional facade facing the corner. In general, this house provides a variety of spatial experiences that are well interpreted both in the plans and in the built form.

QUB Rooms / Tamara Wibowo Architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 22:00:00 +0000

Qub Rooms is a 10-room hotel located in a dense commercial strip in the center of Semarang, Indonesia. Once a mundane 3-story shophouse, the building was transformed into an industrial yet chic structure with a unique facade made out of multiple sized openings, cladded with black steel, creating an unexpected sight among the 90's white ceramic tiles and blue glass facades. Fitting within the urban fabric of the city, the qub(ic) shaped openings articulated across the facade in varied sizes are meant to blur the visual understanding of the real floor levels behind the facade thus heightening the scale of the building.

DipoMuria Commercial Center / SHAU Indonesia

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 01:00:00 +0000

DipoMuria commercial center in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, hosts a photo studio, restaurant, café, and retail shop and is modeled after an urban village typology. On one hand, this makes the design fit better into the low rise and small-scale residential neighborhood and on the other hand, also gives the possibility to play with the volumes and provide more experienceable sequences of in-between spaces to explore and hang out.

Summer Friend House / Phidias Indonesia

Hana Abdel — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 01:00:00 +0000

Living in a tropical country like Indonesia allows us to have unlimited access to sunlight. It means, we could have “summer” all year round. That condition may or may not be good for a house, depending on how much sunlight penetration that still comfortable for the inhabitants. East and West facing are usually big concern in tropical context. Our “Summers Friend House” is one of the solutions for the issue, that showing architectural strategies for a compact house, in a narrow west facing site.

Well of Light House / Phidias Indonesia

Hana Abdel — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 22:00:00 +0000

Situated on the hustle & bustle Bekasi area, West Java, Indonesia, The Well of Light House is designed to be an oasis for the residents. The basic approach is to create a Tropical Contemporary style house. The main principle of the house is to create passive cooling by optimizing light penetration and air flow into the whole house through building massing configuration, solid and void façade, and material.