Hufton + Crow won the prestigious award of Arcaid Images -and $3,000 prize money- for their interior photograph of Zaha Hadid Architects' Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan. They were runners up with the same building in the exterior category. The three additional runners-up announced were Victor Romeo, Inigo Bujedo Aguirre, and Joao Morgado.
The international panel of judges featured: Kristina Julia Bacht, Amy Croft, Sir Terry Farrell, Bjarne Hammer, David Jenkins, Ken Schluchtmann, and Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown. During the shortlisting process, judges focused on the photographers' composition, sense of place, atmosphere, and use of scale.