A serious award for photographs of built space.
Photo of the WEEK
Photo of the Week
Opposition - Mice Bunker Berlin
Opposition shows Berlin’s Mice Bunker, an icon of Brutalism caught in a crisis of meaning. Its sloping concrete skin, protruding ventilation pipes and watchful security camera…
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Photo of the Day
Look Up!
Pale panels and reflective glass turn a simple glance upward into a study of line, light and contrast. And then, as if on cue, the plane…
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Fine Art
Personal, crafted interpretations of built space where architecture becomes visual language.
Aerial
Urban and architectural structure viewed from above, where pattern, planning, and scale become the subject.
Black and White
Monochrome work where tone, contrast, shadow, and form carry the architectural emotion.
Cityscape
The city as a complete visual system: skyline, density, rhythm, infrastructure, and atmosphere.
Historic & Heritage
Buildings, monuments, interiors, and places where memory, restoration, and cultural identity matter.
Human & Architecture
Photographs that reveal scale, use, movement, and the relationship between people and designed space.
Industrial
Factories, infrastructure, warehouses, and production spaces treated as architecture with their own visual force.
Minimalism
Reduced compositions built on line, surface, balance, negative space, and disciplined seeing.
Modern Architecture
Contemporary structures, materials, facades, and spaces that define the language of the present.
Night & Low Light
Architecture transformed by dusk, night, artificial light, reflection, shadow, and quiet atmosphere.
Open
A flexible space for strong architectural perspectives that do not sit neatly inside one category.
Real Estate
Professional property and architectural images where clarity, craft, and spatial invitation work together.
Symmetry
Balanced compositions, mirrored structures, and geometric order used with precision and intent.
Abstract
Details, surfaces, fragments, shadows, and forms that turn architecture into visual abstraction.
Cultural
Architecture as identity: places shaped by ritual, local memory, community, tradition, and continuity.
Geometry
Lines, grids, curves, repetitions, and spatial systems photographed with structural awareness.
Stairs
Vertical circulation, movement, tension, and perspective expressed through staircases and transitions.
France
A dedicated path for photographs made in France, from heritage buildings to contemporary spaces.
A jury of architectural photography's most respected voices
Paul Raftery
Architectural photographer and filmmakerPaul Raftery is known for precise, atmospheric architectural photography and film, creating images of built work across the world with clarity, patience, and spatial sensitivity.
John Gollings
Architectural photographerJohn Gollings has documented the built environment across ancient and modern cities, bringing a long architectural eye to structure, urban memory, and visual context.
Glenn McArthur
Photographer and educator.Known for his work as a designer, a writer of several award-winning books on architecture and design, and an art educator at OCAD University.
Submit work that makes architecture felt.
Enter photographs with a clear point of view: exterior, interior, city, detail, geometry, atmosphere, or human scale. The strongest submissions do not simply show a place; they make the viewer understand why it matters.
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