Finalists for the Art of Building Photographer of the Year Award 2014
11/12/2014.
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A woman gazing through a small window in the bathroom in a building by Giuseppe Perugini, flames lapping the edges of an Indian brick kiln, the structure by Herzog & De Meuron's Beijing Olympic stadium, a rare infrastructure perspective of Amsterdam's newest Metro Line or a photo of Gothic doorway in Milan's Doumo taken on a Smartphone, have been selected as the finalists of the Chartered Institute of Building’s (CIOB) 2014 Art of Building Photographer of the Year competition.
Photographer: Frank Machalowski. Title: Multiexpo Potsdam#5. Photo taken in: Potsdam, Germany. Photographer from: Germany. Photographer's description: This multi-exposure picture reduces the building to its core without any irrelevant background. It emphasises the building.
Photographer: Richard Pennington. Title: Concrete Arteries. Photo taken in: Amsterdam, Holland. Photographer from: Essex, UK. Photographer's description: A rare infrastructure perspective of Amsterdam's newest Metro Line. I liken the concrete Metro tunnels of the city to the arteries running throughout our bodies that keep it alive and functioning.
Photographer: Hoang Long Ly. Title: Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. Photo taken in: Abu Dhabi - UAE. Photographer from: Vietnam. Photographer's description: This mosque is a religious icon not only for Abu Dhabi but also for the Islamic world of UAE.
Photographer: Pessoa Neto. Title: Library by Siza Vieira. Photo taken in: Portugal. Photographer from: Portugal. Photographer's description: I really loved the light coming down the centre of the Library building. I saw two young kids and just waited for the moment.
Photographer: Yana Bulyizheva. Title: Songs of light. Photo taken in: Milan, Italy. Photographer from: St.Petersburg, Russia Photographer's description: The photo shows Duomo not from the main facade, it shows details, and this architectural element is like a powerful luminous song for me. *This photo was taken on a Smartphone.
Photographer: Wahid Adnan. Title: Getting lost on a roof. Photo taken in: Bangladesh. Photographer from: Bangladesh. Photographer's description: A Muslim man is deep into his thoughts on a roof of a building surrounded by other buildings. Access to a roof in Dhaka is not always possible for people as the owners don't allow tenants to go up.
Photographer: Mario Bejagan Cardenas. Title: Bird’s Nest Puzzle Close-Up. Photo taken in: Beijing, China. Photographer from: Abu Dhabi, UAE. Photographer's description: Beijing National Stadium is an eye-catching state of the art structure. The stadium is a work of exceptional design and proves to be a mind-boggling complex artefact as you get up close.
Photographer: Mario Bejagan Cardenas. Title: My home, my playground and my cemetery. Photo taken in: Manila, Philippines. Photographer from: Abu Dhabi, UAE Photographer's description: Thousands of families have made a city’s graveyard their home as authorities grapple with rising population and housing shortage. Depressing community where hapless residents call this place a home among the dead.
Photographer: Lana Yankovskaya. Title: Capsule. Picture taken in: Germany. Photographer from: Kiev, Ukraine. Photographer's description: Mysterious construction, as if it were from the future, but at the same time from the past. Remember aliens or a crazy architect, about emptiness and uselessness, that in fact, nobody needs what we do, and everything will turn to ashes.
Photographer: Patrick Mouzawak. Title: Inception. Photo taken in: Milwaukee, USA. Photographer from: Madrid, Spain. Photographer's description: The multiple layers created by this architectural form with a human attending to it as if carefully repositioning the triangle shapes herself.
Photographer: Pulock Biswas. Title: Little House. Photo taken in: Bangladesh Photographer from: Bangladesh. Photographer's description: It becomes a work of art.
Photographer: Rajaram. Title: Near to fire for bricks. Picture taken in: Pondicherry, India. Photographer from: Pondicherry, India. Photographer's description: People are working near a blazing fire to bake the bricks. Making a single brick is not as easy as we think.
Photographer: Pierre Cuony. Title: Up. Photo taken in: London. Photographer from: Switzerland. Photographer's description: This picture is a low angle shot of a beautiful building in London. Good place, right time.
Photographer: Lisa Shalom. Title: Giuseppe Perugini Bathroom. Photo taken in: Fregene, Italy. Photographer from: California, USA Photographer's description: Giuseppe Perugini was a famous architect who built very modern home decades ago in the heart of Fregene, Italy. Since his death, the home is abandoned. Here is a woman gazing through a small window in the bathroom.
Photographer: Flores Giorgini. Title: Water pipe on a roof. Photo taken in: São Paulo, Brazil. Photographer from: Paris, France. Photographer's description: When I took this photo it was because I found it really strange that this pipe was on the roof; it is an interesting contrast with modern buildings.
A woman gazing through a small window in the bathroom in a building by Giuseppe Perugini, flames lapping the edges of an Indian brick kiln, the structure by Herzog & De Meuron's Beijing Olympic stadium, a rare infrastructure perspective of Amsterdam's newest Metro Line or a photo of Gothic doorway in Milan's Doumo taken on a Smartphone, have been selected as the finalists of the Chartered Institute of Building’s (CIOB) 2014 Art of Building Photographer of the Year competition.
The fifteen photographs were shortlisted by a panel of judges – including photography critic and editor Sue Steward, award-winning photographer Matt Wain and the editor of Construction Manager magazine, Elaine Knutt – to win the digital photography competition, organised by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).
The photographs can now be voted on by the public, until 11 January 2015, and decide who is the name of the winner awarded a £3,000 cash prize. The Art of Building Photographer of the Year competition, now in its fifth year, is open to both amateur and professional architectural photographers.
The name of the winner will be announced on 5 February.
In a press release, Saul Townsend, CIOB spokesman, said.- “There is a cornucopia of styles and stories in this year’s final. In a world full of high definition colour technology, black and white photography still inspires a host of photographers. Voters are in for a visual treat and will hopefully be inspired to look at the built environment in a new way and to take part themselves next year.”
Remember, you're only allowed to vote once, so choose carefully! Vote for your favorite before January 11, 2015 on CIOB’s Art of Building website
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