Building Images

The Sto Werkstatt in Clerkenwell collects the best architectural photography worldwide, focusing on the medium’s practice, methodology and means of architectural representation.

“Building Images”, an exhibition of the best architectural photography worldwide, features winning images from The Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards 2015 and celebrates the power and impact of photography on the way we sense and experience spaces.

The exhibition is divided into four categories that explore different architectural qualities and a diverse technical approach and methodology. The categories Building in use, Exteriors, Interiors and Sense of place demonstrate a broad range of photographic styles and approaches to the medium as well as featuring a diverse set of outstanding architectural forms.

Top: Overall Winner 2015. Buildings in use. EPFL Quartier Nord, Ecublens, Switzerland. Photo Fernando Guerra. Above: Sense of Place. JBR Beachside, residential buildings and public beach, Dubai, UAE. Photo Ieva Saudargaite

It will showcase the world’s most renowned architectural photographers including overall winner Fernando Guerra as well as short listed entrants Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre, Doublespace (Amanda Large & Younes Bounhar), Christopher Frederick Jones, Laurian Ghinitoiu, Mark Gorton, Ryan Koopmans, Lingfei Tan + Song Han, Mads Mogensen, Tom Roe, Ieva Saudargaitė, Su Shengliang, Grant Smith and Jeremie Souteyrat. During the World Architecture Festival, a highly acclaimed panel that included Fabrizio Barozzi, Alberto Veiga, Amy Croft, Katy Harris, Nick Hufton, Allan Crow, Ian Moore, Clifford Pearson and Christine Murray judged the awards. In the short-listing process the panel looked beyond the architecture itself, considering the photographers’ merits in composition, light, sense of place, atmosphere and use of scale.

Exteriors. Gold Coast Aquatic Centre, Queensland, Australia. Photo Christopher Frederick Jones
Buildings in use. Parque Natural do Fogo, Cape Verde, West Africa. Photo Fernando Guerra
Buildings in use. Nudgee College, Queensland, Australia. Photo Christopher Frederick Jones
Exteriors- Bethel Secondary School, Burkina Faso, West Africa. Photo Grant Smith
Exteriors. Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China. Photo Su Shengliang
<b>Left</b>: Exteriors. Philharmonic Hall, Szczecin, Poland. Photo Laurian Ghinitoiu. <b>Right</b>: Exteriors. Universite lbn Zohr de Laayoune, Laayoune, Morocco. Photo Doublespace Photography (Amanda Large & Younes Bounhar)
Interiors. Sede Transforma, Torres Vedras, Portugal. Photo Fernando Guerra
<b>Left</b>: Interiors. Refugi dil fieu, Flims, Switzerland. Photo Mads Mogensen. <b>Right</b>: Interiors. The Leadenhall Building, London, England. Photo Mark Gorton
Sense of Place. Bethel Secondary School, Burkina Faso, West Africa. Photo Grant Smith
Sense of Place. De Rotterdam. Photo Ryan Koopmans
Buildings in use. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. Photo Jeremie Souteyrat


from 5 February to 25 March 2016
Building Images
Sto Werkstatt
7-9 Woodbridge St, London