Winner and 20 of the World's Best Building Images for Arcaid Awards 2015

The winner of the 2015 ARCAID IMAGES ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD was announced at The World Architecture Festival. The overall winner of the Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Award in association with Sto and supported by World Architecture Festival is - FERNANDO GUERRA.

Photographer.- Fernando Guerra. Architect.- Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés.

Fernando Guerra's stunning image of Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés' EPFL Quartier Nord in Ecublens, Switzerland, has won the Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Award. Announced at the ongoing World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Singapore, the image was selected by a panel of judges for its ability to "translate the sophistication of architecture into a readable and understandable two dimensions".

Below, is the 20 shortlisted of the year's best architectural images, for 2015 annual Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards. The images were presented in four categories - Exteriors, Interiors, Sense of Place, and Building in Use - and judged by an esteemed panel on their atmospheric quality, composition, use of scale and more. The winner for the Photographer of the Year Award last year was Hufton + Crow who now served as a judge.

4 of the 20 best photograhies were from Fernando Guerra, who is the overall winner of 2015

"The architecture itself is the focus and the image regarded only as the medium. The Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Award aims to put the focus onto the skill and creativity of the photographer,” said the Award’s organizers. Each shortlisted image was judged on the merits of the photography for composition, sense of place, atmosphere and use of scale; Guerra had the highest scoring image overall.

“The high level of photography has made it a very difficult the task to choose the winners. The most important thing for us has been the concept and atmosphere of the images. How they have been perceived and expressed through the creativity and inspiration of the photographer,” said architects and jury members Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga.

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Photographer.- Fernando Guerra / Architect : Pedro Gadanho + CVDB.

Photographer.- Fernando Guerra. Architect.- OTO Arquitectos.

Photographer.- Su Shengliang. Architect.- Atelier Deshaus.

Photographer.- Grant Smith. Architect.- Article 25.

Photographer.- Tan Lingfrei. Architect.- Public housing development.

Photographer.- Ieva Saudargaite. Architect.- Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo (WATG).

Photographer.- Ryan Koopmans. Architect.- Rem Koolhaas OMA.

Photographer.- Mark Gorton. Architect.- Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.

Photographer.- Laurian Ghinitoiu. Architects.-: Estudio Barozzi & Veiga.

Photographer.- Doublespace (Amanda Large & Younes Bounhar). Architect.- Regroupement d'Architectes El Kabbaj.

Photographer.- Mads Mogenson. Architect.- AAM Architektin.

Photographer.- Jeremie Souteyrat. Architect.- SANAA.

Photographer.- Christopher Frederick Jones. Architect.- Cox Rayner Architects.

Photographer.- Inigo Bujedo Aguirre. Architect.- KWK PROMES Robert Konieczny.

Photographer.- Christopher Frederick Jones. Architect.- M3 Architecture.

Photographer.- Tom Roe. Architect.- Geoffrey Bawa.

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Fernando Guerra

Fernando Guerra was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1970 and obtained a degree in Architecture from Lusíada University (Lisbon), before working as an architect in Macau for five years. Fernando had been taking photographs since he was 16 years old and, in 1999, with his brother Sérgio Guerra, founded the studio ‘FG+SG - Fotografia de Arquitectura’. Five years later, they established the publishing house ‘FG+SG - Livros de Imagem’ to publicise the various architectural works they photograph.

Their work has regularly featured in a variety of national and international publications including Casabella, Wallpaper*, Dwell, Icon, Domus, and A+U, among many others. FG+SG collaborates with various important Portuguese architects such as Álvaro Siza, Carlos Castanheira, Risco Arquitectos, Manuel Graça Dias + Egas José Vieira, ARX Portugal, Promontório Arquitectos, Belém Lima, in addition to international architects such as Jordi Badia, Zaha Hadid, I.M. Pei, and many others.

Fernando Guerra has been represented by FAB PICS International Architecture Photography, Cologne, Germany since 2006, and by VIEW Pictures, London, since 2008. His work is represented in various private and public collections and has been exhibited extensively in Europe, as well as being shown in South America and Asia.

Just last year, he was announced as the winner of the Exterior category at the Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards for his photograph of the House for Elderly People in Portugal, by architect Francisco Aires Mateus. His latest award is only the most recent on a growing list, and the awards are well-deserved. Guerra has an eye for these pristine white buildings and captures their expertly-crafted planes with such acuity, you're compelled to see if the building has any flaws (specifically his images of the Aires Mateus' House in Leiria).