Architectural Photography Awards 2021: The year's most stunning architectural photos revealed

Spanning classes together with interiors, exteriors and buildings in use, the 2021 shortlist additionally options photos of a curvilinear lodge in Dubai and a Hong Kong tower in full darkness after residents had been evacuated throughout lockdown.

The winners might be introduced on the annual World Architecture Festival (WAF), which is being hosted just about in early December. Two photos might be chosen from every of the six classes -- one by competition delegates and the opposite by a jury of architects and trade figures. Of these 12 photographs, two might be named total winners.

The photos had been chosen from practically 2,000 entries, WAF stated in a press launch. Although submissions got here in from over 40 nations, photographs from the UK, US and China accounted for over half of the entries.

In a press assertion, jury member Hamish Crooks of Magnum Photos stated: "This was a tough competition to judge and I was pleasantly surprised by the standard of all the entries presented to us especially in terms of their compositional and technical quality."

Scroll by means of the gallery above to see a choice of the photographs shortlisted at this year's Architectural Photography Awards.