20 stunning shortlisted entries for the Architectural Photography Awards

Daily Mail ^ | 4 November 2017 | Georgina Wilson-Powell

[mairdie]

...recently completed manta-ray-like chapel...Choi Hung Estate in Hong Kong...bunker-like Messner Mountain Museum Corones, Bolzano, South Tyrol in Italy...Black Rock Lighthouse Service at Burning Man...Derby Arena Velodrome...South Africa's Ponte City Apartments...Folk Art Museum, China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou, China...Tianrenhe Museum, Hangzhou, China...Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Denmark...

[mairdie]

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Mostly horrible post-modernist nihilistic junk. However the picture of the South African apartment building was the best. It appropriately looked like a dark high rise jail for the inmates tenants.

[left that other site]

Some of those buildings make great geometric photos but i would NOT want to live there! LOL!

[mairdie]

I feel like I’ve seen something like that in Dr Who.

I went to school in Gothic and loved that, though too many buildings on campus were 1950-60s concrete rectangular boxes. I enjoy some of the post modernist experiments, though some do - I shouldn’t say fall flat - disappoint.

[mairdie]

I can't imagine living in a rabbit hutch apartment complex after living in a standalone house. But I do enjoy the art of many of these photos.

[left that other site]

Indeed.

I was intrigued by the cylindrical South Africa’s Ponte City Apartments, so I looked it up. The tall tower was originally a fancy place to live, but gang crime and vandalism has made it an eyesore. A pile of debris in the center core rises up to the fifth floor of the 55 story building.

[GnuThere]

Interesting photos! The one in the Italian mountains is gorgeous - I thought it was Patagonia!

[mairdie]

Gawd but I love researchers! Absolutely fascinating.

[mairdie]

But can you imagine an architectural company designing a bunker in that environment? That is so bizarre.

[GnuThere]

Very bizarre.

[GnuThere]

Sounds about right. So it’s a 55 story garbage can - now THAT’S creative!

[left that other site]

I love looking things up! ;-)

[left that other site]

Kind of Symbolizes something, I think.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

A clunky looking monorail? What is this, 1959 at DisneyLand? Even theirs looked a LOT better than that ugly thing.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’m with you. I hate having neighbors on the opposite side of the walls!

[Governor Dinwiddie]

No doubt the photographs themselves are very visually interesting. Of course the buildings themselves are not something which I would enjoy living or working in. The photograph of the Atlantic City casino wall is quite interesting for the two older dilapidated homes in the foreground. I look at the picture and wonder, who lives there? Why?

And like you I have on occasion seen some nice new architecture. I suppose the difference is that a mediocre Gothic revival is more inviting than a mediocre modern/postmodern stack of cubes.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The chapel on Bosjes farm in Ceres, Cape Town is gorgeous. Reminds me of Bob Hope's house in Southern California.

[mairdie]

The school had a major problem with gargoyles falling off the buildings. They put them in what was called the “Gargoyle Graveyard.”

[mairdie]

I forgot about this! That’s great to remember.

[mairdie]

Oh, no! I love the colors in that photograph. No idea what it’s like to see straight on but the hard lines on the left against the soft what might be reflection on the right in the photograph? Love it.