Twenty shots shortlisted for the Architectural Photography Awards 2018

04/10/2018. [Amsterdam] Netherlands
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA

The 2018 World Architecture Festival is coming up next month, and after Barcelona, Singapore, and Berlin hosted it in previous years, Amsterdam will be this year's place to be for the architecture community from November 28–30. As part of its annual awards program, now the twenty finalists of the Architectural Photography Awards.

Buildings in Use — Project: The Hive at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK by Wolfgang Buttress. Photographer: Omer Kanipak

Buildings in Use — Project: The Hive at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK by Wolfgang Buttress. Photographer: Omer Kanipak

Sense of Place — Project: The Piazza Duomo from the Arengario Balconi of the Palazzo dell'Arengario, Museo del 900 in Milan, Italy by Italo Rota and Fabio Fornasari. Photographer: Marco Tagliarino

Buildings in Use — Project: Azur Arena in Antibes, France by Auer Weber architects. Photographer: Aldo Amoretti

Sense of Place — Project: The Hive at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK during winter by Wolfgang Buttress. Photographer: Jeff Eden

Exterior — Project: The Bank of China Tower, Ningbo China by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. Photographer: He Zhenhuan

Sense of Place — Swimmers on the riverside opposite the construction of Raffles City Chongqing, China by Safdie Architects. Photographer: Zhu Wenqiao

Exterior — Project: Long Museum West Bund Shanghai, China by Atelier Deshaus. Photographer: Pawel Paniczko

Sense of Place — Project: Castle Neuschwanstein in Winter. Photographer: Dirk Vonten

Buildings in Use — Project: Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama,USA. Photographer: Brad Feinknopf

Buildings in Use — Project: The Vantablack Pavilion, Pyeongchang, South Korea by Asif Khan. Photographer: Laurian Ghinitoiu

Interior — Project: A semi-abandoned power station in Kelenfold, Budapest, Hungary. Photographer: Roman Robroek

Interior — Project: The Théodore Gouvy Theatre in Freyming-Merlebach, France by Dominique Coulon & Associés. Photographer: Eugeni Pons

Exterior — Project: Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Border Crossing Facility by ECADI.Photographer: Shao Feng

Interior — Project: The Ouse Valley viaduct in Sussex, UK by David Mocatta. Photographer: Andrew Robertson

Buildings in Use — Project: A Soviet-era Sanatorium "Sacartvelo" with a stray dog and rubbish, in the town of Tskaltubo in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia designed by architect Kalashniko. Photographer: Ryan Koopmans

Interior — Project: The ceiling of Liège-Guillemins station in Belgium by Santiago Calatrava. Photographer: Suraj Garg

Exterior — Project: The perforated concrete skin of Vm Estancia in Chennai,Tamil Nadu, India by KSM Architecture. Photographer: B.R.S.Sreenag

Interior — Project: The Vortex, Bloomberg headquarters, London, UK by Foster + Partners. Photographer: James Newton

Sense of Place — Project: The Seashore Chapel in Qinhuangdao, China by Vector Architects. Photographer: Ai Qing

Exterior — Project: Apartment building in Yaiza, Lanzarote, Spain. Photographer: Marius Liutkevicius

The four main categories—Exteriors, Interiors, Sense of Place, and Buildings in Use—were expanded by two new additional categories this year.- Mobile and Portfolio. The shortlisted photographs will be exhibited at WAF in Amsterdam, and visitors will have the chance to vote for their overall winner of the four main categories.

Here are the shots that made it on this year's shortlist.