Arcaid unveiled the shortlist for its best architecture photograph of 2017

22/10/2017. Arcaid Photography Awards [BER] Germanay, Winner > 11.2017
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The light in a concrete gymnasium in China, a seemingly endless atrium in South Africa and two triangles as backstage of playground facade in Tokyo all feature among the 20 images shortlisted to be named architecture photograph of the year.

Buildings in use: Gymnasium of the New Campus of Tianjin University, China, by Atelier Li Xinggang, photographed by Terrence Zhang

Buildings in use: Gymnasium of the New Campus of Tianjin University, China, by Atelier Li Xinggang, photographed by Terrence Zhang

Buildings in use: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark, by Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Olafur Eliasson, photographed by David Borland

Buildings in use: Selegie House, Singapore, by the Housing and Development Board, photographed by Siyuan Ma

Buildings in use: Derby Arena Velodrome, UK, by Faulkner Brown Architects, photographed by Martine Hamilton

Buildings in use: Office building, Beijing, China, photographed by Tom Stahl

Sense of place: Museum of the Pop Culture (formerly known as the EMP Museum), Seattle, USA, by Frank Gehry, photographed by Conchi Martínez

Sense of place: Folk Art Museum, China Academy of Arts, Hangzhou, China, by Kengo Kuma, photographed by Terrence Zhang

Sense of place: Black Rock Lighthouse Service at Burning Man, Nevada, USA, photographed by Tom Stahl

Sense of place: Choi Hung Estate, Hong Kong, photographed by Fabio Mantovani

Sense of place: Messner Mountain Museum Corones, South Tyrol, Italy, by Zaha Hadid Architects, photographed by Tom Roe

Exterior: Sumida Hokusai Museum, Tokyo, Japan, by Kazuyo Sejima, photographed by Laurian Ghinitoiu

Exterior: SALA Ayutthaya Hotel, Thailand, by Onion, photographed by Wison Tungthunya

Exterior: North wall of the Revel Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, photographed by Brian Rose

Exterior: Bosjes Chapel, Ceres, Cape Town, South Africa, by Steyn Studio, photographed by Adam Letch

Exterior: Samsung Electronics HQ building in San Jose, California, USA, by NBBJ, photographed by David Crawford

Interior: Gymnasium of the New Campus of Tianjin University, China, by Atelier Li Xinggang, photographed by Terrence Zhang

Interior: Tianrenhe Museum, Hangzhou, China, by HHDFUN, photographed by Zhenfei Wang

Interior: Dongzhuang Building Museum of the Western Regions, China, by Xinjiang Wind Architectural Design & Research Institute, photographed by Yao Li

Interior: Ponte City Apartments, Johannesburg, South Africa, photographed by Ryan Koopmans

Interior: Baan Mom private residence, Bangkok, Thailand, by Integrated Field

20 photographs finalists in the Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards 2017. The shortlist was selected by a panel of judges, and the winner, who will be announced in November, will receive €2,550 (£2,275) and will have their photograph exhibited in Image+Space gallery in Beijing.

The shortlist was selected by a panel of judges that included Amy Croft, Artist and curator of Sto Werkstatt, Clerkenwell London, Richard Bryant, Architectural Photographer, Katy Harris, Communications Director, Foster + Partners, Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham MBE, Klein Dytham Architecture, David Jenkins - Publisher, Circa Press, John Hill, Editor of the World-Architects eMagazine, Kate Goodwin, Head of Architecture and Drue Heinz Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, Matt Emmett - Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards Winner in 2016, and Andrew Chen Li, AIA, Deputy Chairman (Founder) Chief Architect, Cendes Architecture.

"The winning images not only captured the aesthetics of different architecture and space, but also went beyond recording the images by telling stories about the meaningful built environments," said Chen Li.

All shortlisted photographs will be exhibited at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin next month, during which the winner will be announced. The winner and the other shortlisted entries will be exhibitedin at Sto Werkstatt, London, in early 2018.

Here's the full shortlist: