Photographers are invited to submit an unlimited number of individual images across a wide range of categories. You have the flexibility to enter each image into the category that best suits its theme, or even submit the same image in multiple categories if it aligns with different criteria. Each submission will be evaluated independently by our esteemed panel of judges, ensuring every photo receives the recognition it deserves.
Explore how light & shadow transform architectural spaces. From stark contrasts to subtle gradients, this category celebrates light & shadow as a design element in itself.
Showcase the beauty and complexity within. From grand lobbies to intimate rooms, we’re looking for interior spaces that reveal design, mood, and detail.
Celebrate bold forms, clean lines, and innovative materials. This category is for buildings that define our contemporary landscape.
From ancient temples to Gothic cathedrals—highlight structures that have stood the test of time and carry stories of the past through their design.
Capture the rhythm and scale of cities around the world. Skylines, street grids, and urban density all belong here.
Less is more. Submit images that reflect simplicity, precision, and restraint in form, light, and composition.
Shift the view. Whether looking up, down, or capturing towering structures—this category is about verticality and spatial tension.
Architecture in use. Show the relationship between people and space—how bodies, movement, and presence bring buildings to life and provide a contrast to the static structure.
Express architecture as poetry. This category welcomes conceptual, abstract, or stylized work that transforms structure into visual art.
Mirrored surfaces, water, or glass—celebrate the interplay between architecture and its reflected image in the world.
Balance and precision at its best. Submit compositions that explore mirrored forms, orderly design, and harmonious proportion.
Focus on shapes, patterns, and visual rhythm. This category celebrates abstraction found in structure, line, and repetition.
Take to the skies. Aerial and drone photography that reveals scale, context, and patterns not visible from the ground.
Timeless and expressive. Submit monochrome images that reveal architectural form through contrast, texture, and tone.
From glowing cityscapes to quiet shadows—this category focuses on architecture after dark, in twilight, or dim conditions.
Use time as your brush. Highlight architecture using long exposures—blurring motion, enhancing light, or capturing stillness.
A broad category for singular architectural icons, everyday structures, or visually compelling facades—anything built that inspires.
Celebrate engineering and elegance. From minimalist footbridges to monumental spans, this is for architecture that connects.
Spirals, symmetry, and perspective—this category showcases staircases as sculptural and functional design elements.
Frames within frames. Capture windows as portals of light, structure, or reflection, whether as detail or compositional focus.
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