Architectural - Amateur

Chris de Blank Australia 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "A Long Way To The Top" This building caught my attention in Ho Chi Min City

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Mihai Florea Australia 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Loy Yang"

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Tim Mulcahy USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Surveillance" Stata Center, Frank Geary - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Tim Mulcahy USA Honorable Mention "Curvaceous (1)"

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Manss Aval USA Honorable Mention "La Tour Eiffel"

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John Eaton USA Honorable Mention "Heavy Metal"

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Dag Ole Nordhaug Norway Honorable Mention "Louvre Stairs"

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Gregor Borwig Germany Honorable Mention "Monks"

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Bencai Gong USA Honorable Mention "a world of Buddhas" Taken in myanmar in year 2016

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Karen Hanley Colbert USA Honorable Mention "Gehry Study 9" Architectural selection of Frank Gehry's New World Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA

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Mark Chen USA Honorable Mention "Among the Madding Crowd" Waves crash into this pier as water swirls all around its base.

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Bob Neiman USA Honorable Mention "Paraportiani Church Mykonos 1471" This image was taken in Mykonos Greece

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Klaus Pfeiffer Germany Honorable Mention "Vision One"

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Wong Choon Keat Malaysia Honorable Mention "federation square#3"

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Jesse Mechling USA Honorable Mention "Gardens by the Bay" Gardens by the Bay, Singapore, November 2015

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Vincent Morban Canada Honorable Mention "Whistle Stop in Rowley" It was once a thriving farm community. Now it has only four residents.

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Andre Struik Netherlands Honorable Mention "The Eye"

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Martina Platte Hong Kong Honorable Mention "Black Hole"

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Sarah Caldwell New Zealand Honorable Mention "Fusion Escalator"

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Darren Moore UK Honorable Mention "Illuminated"

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Frans van Hoogstraten Netherlands Honorable Mention "Begijnhof" Begijnhof / Brugge / Belgium

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Dermot Russell Ireland Honorable Mention "Anew" 7 World Trade Center (left) and 1 World Trade Center (right).

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Richard Greene USA Honorable Mention "Beverly Hills Home" Real people live here - 16"x20" Archival Print 100% Cotton Rag

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Soren Harbel Spain Honorable Mention "Greek Shadows" Greek Shadows - vera fotografia

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Oleksiy Sobol Ukraine Honorable Mention "Gas Station" Great sand dunes

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Natalie Teitlina Germany Honorable Mention "Stairs to.." Golden Gate, San Francisco

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Debbie Rubin USA Honorable Mention "Blowing In The Breeze" The way the laundry was hung to dry and blowing with abandonment, captured my eye and a smile.

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Liz Hardley New Zealand Honorable Mention "Sydney Opera House"

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Marcel Krueger Germany Honorable Mention "Dreamy Lighthouse" taken 2014 on the windy coast of the Northsea at Dorum

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Barry Brukoff USA Honorable Mention "New York Gallery Stair" ONGOING STUDIES OF MODERN STAIRCASES IN AMERICA

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Richard Berry UK Honorable Mention "Blackpool"

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A M Clark USA Nominee "Crescent City Connection"

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Ake Alm Germany Nominee "Sunny Lane" Old town, Stockholm

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Allan Borebor Philippines Nominee "Manhattan Scene"

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Amanda Harner USA Nominee "Brutalism"

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee "Savannah" A famous landmark of Savannah, GA.

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee "Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge in Charleston" Third longest cable-stayed bridge in the Western Hemisphere.

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee "Turkey: Hagia Sophia " There are 82,693 mosques in Turkey.Used to be a Christian basilica. The Jan 2016 ISIS bombing that killed 13 foreigners &injured 14 was near here. It is usually a busy but very peaceful place.

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Andre Kurenbach Germany Nominee "man and machine #1" detail of a historic steam compressor in a disused coking plant in the Ruhr area in Germany

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Andre Kurenbach Germany Nominee "man and machine #2" detail of a historic steam compressor in a disused coking plant in the Ruhr area in Germany

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Anna Laudan Germany Nominee "New York: Part XIII"

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Anna Laudan Germany Nominee "Monoliths: Part III"

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Anne Eigen USA Nominee "Atop the Gare du Nord" At the top of the Gare du Nord train station in Paris

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Arlene Vidor USA Nominee "Back Stairs"

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Arlene Vidor USA Nominee "Construction"

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Aubra Franklin USA Nominee "Espada" Recently designated a Unesco World Heritage site this image is part of series to commemorate

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Aurelio Bormioli Italy Nominee "Stairway to Nowhere" Lens: Samyang 24mm f/3.5 Tilt-Shift - Place: Savona – Italy 2015

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Barry Brukoff USA Nominee "Steps of Sifnos 1" ON-GOING STUDIES OF GREEK ISLAND ARCHITECTURE

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BD Richardson USA Nominee "No Lifeguard on Duty"

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BD Richardson USA Nominee "Ward 8"

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Belinda Keyte Australia Nominee "Hindley St. Reflection" The street reflection in a University of South Australia building

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Bernard Werner USA Nominee "Refined"

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Bernard Ng Malaysia Nominee "Two Face" The unique of this modern building has a 2 side of different design of window

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Bill Rosenberg USA Nominee "Facets" Gas Natural Fenosa's corporate HQ in Barcelona is a complex of buildings, whose most outstanding feature is a 20 floor glass tower with a spectacular cantilevered structure. Located in La...

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Bob Neiman USA Nominee "Grain Elevator Ladder" This image was taken in the Palouse of Washington State

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Brian Jones Australia Nominee "Farrell Place"

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Brian Jones Australia Nominee "Reina Sofia"

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Brian Finger USA Nominee "Under Construction"

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Britta Baumann Germany Nominee "One night in Frankfurt"

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Brittany Comunale USA Nominee "Looking Up (1)"

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Charles Mifsud Malta Nominee "Bell Ringing" The Bells ringing at St John Co cathedral Valletta Malta

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Christian Meermann Germany Nominee "Spirals" These stairs really exist as a part of the "Tiger & Turtle" sculpture in Duisburg, Germany.

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Claudio Beffa Italy Nominee "Generations" Tokyo, the roof of the Senso-ji temple of Asakusa and the 634m high Tokyo Skytree

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Claudio Bonaccorsi Italy Nominee "Pillars" Structure of pillars supporting the dome of the Shrine of Our Lady of Tears in Syracuse

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Curtis Rhodes USA Nominee "Guggenheim" The essence of F.L.W.s masterpiece

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Daniel Castilloux Canada Nominee "Poking Through The Fog" Hong Kong

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Daniel Schwabe Brazil Nominee "San Geronimo Church, Taos Pueblo" Simple and elegant lines in this adobe church in Taos Pueblo, Taos, NM

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David Aaron Canada Nominee "Yahks Shack"

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Dayle Ann Clavin Austria Nominee "Staircase Decscent" On her way to the wedding

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Debbie Rubin USA Nominee "Symmetry" There was such balance between the strength of the pier and the silkiness of the water.

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Denise Dethlefsen USA Nominee "Geometry of Power" A line of high-tension power lines marches into the distance in a wintery field

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Denise Dethlefsen USA Nominee "Tourists Welcome!" An old store welcomes non-existent visitors

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Dermot Russell Ireland Nominee "Two Bridges" Venice.

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Devin Campbell USA Nominee "Terrace"

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Dominic Martello USA Nominee "Downtown VIII" San Francisco Downtown Series

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Dominic Martello USA Nominee "SFMOMA" Inside the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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Edwin Loyola Philippines Nominee "Walt Disney Concert Hall"

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Elena Bolshakova Russia Nominee "Houses can also glow with happiness" Morning fog and sunrise made this house glow with happiness.

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Emil Stojek Poland Nominee "Hospital" Taken in Child Jesus Hospital in Warsaw, Poland

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Emo Gene Canada Nominee "Harpa Concert Hall" Geometric architecture at its finest. Reykjavik, Iceland

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Erika Tanzer Austria Nominee "Hochhaus" BMW-Gebäude in München

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Erika Tanzer Austria Nominee "Wolkenkratzer" in Iceland, the Harpa

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Francesco Caso Italy Nominee "Arches" Calatrava structure in Valencia (Spain) - Detail

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Francesco Caso Italy Nominee "Fish" Artwork belonging to my series "Animals in Architecture" - Calatrava building in Valencia

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Francesco Caso Italy Nominee "Flying Away from the City" Building in Assago (Italy)

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Gary Wiesner USA Nominee "Abstract Justice" Captured in downtown NYC as part of a collection of abstract reflections.

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Gerald McDowell USA Nominee "Greyhound Bus Station EVV"

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Gerald McDowell USA Nominee "Once I was Grand"

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Gerd Kufner Germany Nominee "Space Object Study Rosemarie Trockel No. 2"

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Gergely Kovács Hungary Nominee "Shard" A rainy day in London.

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Gergely Kovács Hungary Nominee "The Others in the Eye"

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Gerry Ligon Australia Nominee "Northern Water Feature" Water fountain at Sydney Olympic Park

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Gian Luigi Fornari Lanzetti Italy Nominee "Integrity Protecting the Works of Man" An unusual lateral sight of the main facade of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) building.

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Hans Bauer Germany Nominee "Skyscraper"

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Howard Ehrlich USA Nominee "London after the Rain" London, springtime, dreary,great contrasts ethereal

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Ian Shand New Zealand Nominee "Burj Khalifa, Dubai" Creation imprisoned

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Ian Shand New Zealand Nominee "Crane, Historic Pier, Swakkopmund, Namibia" Relic, alone in the early morning light

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Ian Mountford UK Nominee "Messerplatz" This spaceship like portal is part of the Messe Basel exhibition centre.

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Ignacio Romero Naves Spain Nominee "Carrousel" Carrousel Vs Eiffel Tower

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Ignacio Romero Naves Spain Nominee "Escape" Valencia 2015.

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James Peterson USA Nominee "Chapel Dome, Tumacacori Mission" The cross atop the Tumacacori Chapel rises above the mission complex near Tubac, Arizona.

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Jamie Black USA Nominee "Serene Commotion" The Brooklyn Bridge entering the chaos of Downtown Manhattan

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Jay Bransfield USA Nominee "Lamp Post"

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Jeannine Mullan USA Nominee "Stairs to Heaven"

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Jeff Olson USA Nominee "Cloud Beams"

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Jeff Olson USA Nominee "Fast Forward"

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Jeff Olson USA Nominee "Bending Light"

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Jim Welninski USA Nominee "White Towers" Marina City, Chicago, IL

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Jim Welninski USA Nominee "Serpentine" Maggie Daley Park, Chicago,IL.

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Jim Welninski USA Nominee "Tribune Gothic" Tribune Tower, Chicago, IL.

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John Eaton USA Nominee "Traces Left Behind"

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John C Saponara Jr USA Nominee "Notre Dame" Notre Dame at night

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Jose Carlos Costa Portugal Nominee "Casa da Musica Study, 5" From the series Casa da Musica (The House of Music) Study. In Oporto (Portugal)

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Karen Lawton New Zealand Nominee "Edges"

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Karen Lawton New Zealand Nominee "Te Uru Too"

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Karen Hanley Colbert USA Nominee "Gehry Study 33" Architectural selection of Frank Gehry's New World Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA

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Karen Hanley Colbert USA Nominee "Gehry Study 34" Architectural selection of Frank Gehry's New World Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA

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Kathleen Fischer USA Nominee "Sands Structure"

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Kazik Salwa USA Nominee "City Reflected"

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Kent Wisner USA Nominee "Spiral (2)" Hommage to Escher

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Kerstin Arnemann Malta Nominee "Urban Shapes - Rising High" Architectural spaces are revealed and formed by light. I try to capture and emphasize the forms and beauty of the buildings and to show the strong connection between light and architecture.

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Kishore Murthy USA Nominee "Skylight" View of the sky from my hammock on the deck

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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Nominee "Aqueduct"

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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Nominee "Chicago (1)"

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Kos Karathanasis Netherlands Nominee "Garry Kasparov" The subway of Moscow

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Kristen Victoria Harner USA Nominee "Reflections"

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Larry Colby USA Nominee "Ghost Town" An abandoned building visited by wind and sand in Luderitz, Namibia

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Laszlo Oveges Hungary Nominee "Obelisk" Section photograph of the "Malom" shopping center in the city of Kecskemét ( Hungary )

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Leonardo Regoli USA Nominee "Skyline" Manhattan skyline during a stormy day taken from the Brooklyn Bridge

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Lilyan Aloma USA Nominee "Confounded" Madison Avenue and East 26th Street, New York City, Silver Gelatin

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Linda Cutche New Zealand Nominee "Reaching for the Moon"

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Linda Treleaven Canada Nominee "Looking Up!" Windows on the Cancer Agency in Vancouver

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Linda Cutche New Zealand Nominee "Through the Doorway"

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Lois Alexander-Mandel USA Nominee "Abandoned" Toulon, France

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Maciej Szemelowski Poland Nominee "Puddle" Sopot

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Madhavi Swarup India Nominee "Untitled (2)"

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Madhavi Swarup India Nominee "Untitled (3)"

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Manss Aval USA Nominee "Five Elements"

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Manss Aval USA Nominee "Symétrie de Guerre VI"

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Marc Hodel Switzerland Nominee "Skycraper and Full Moon" a friend

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Marco Virgone Italy Nominee "Windows" Windows

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Marianna Armata Canada Nominee "Gehry Staircase" Nautilus structure of this staircase at the AGO in Toronto is superb

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Marisol Pastor Spain Nominee "A Place for Reflection"

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Mark Chen USA Nominee "Crown" The large US Air Force Memorial shot from a perspective so that it resembles a crown.

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "Welcome To The Digital Architectural Age"

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "High Wired"

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "Linework"

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Marshall Gould USA Nominee "Sun Spiral"

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Martina Platte Hong Kong Nominee "Zeche Hannover"

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Marvin Basil USA Nominee "Basil_Marvin_DisneyConcreHall#22"

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Marvin Basil USA Nominee "Hidden Passage"

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Mats Reslow Sweden Nominee "Flow" The blue planet. Aquarium Copenhagen

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Michael Gard USA Nominee "Frozen Wayfinder" East Pierhead Lighthouse in Michigan City, Indiana, USA - 2016

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Michael Koester Germany Nominee "Mikado"

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Michael de Guzman Philippines Nominee "Marina Bridge" Marinay Bay Sands Area, Singapore

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Michael Seeley USA Nominee "Mobile Launch Platform or Insert Rocket Here" This 355 foot tall structure will serve as the launch platform for the world's largest rocket.

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Michael O.A. Klapper Germany Nominee "Hedgehog"

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Michal Story USA Nominee "Chinatown Alley"

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Mimmi Moretti Italy Nominee "Revisiting Calatrava in RE - White soul"

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Mimmi Moretti Italy Nominee "I Granai"

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Minas Stratigos Qatar Nominee "Ceremonial Court" Long exposure of 81 seconds in Education City, Doha - Qatar

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Minas Stratigos Qatar Nominee "Burj Khalifa" in Dubai, UAE

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Morris Asato USA Nominee "Connections" Metal heating and air conditioning ducts display long symmetrical lines terminated by square connectors. This was mounted on the side of a building in Okinawa, Japan.

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Natalie Teitlina Germany Nominee "Memory Wisdom" Tempel, Bali

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Nikolai Endegor France Nominee "Serpent" Melk Abbey, Austria

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Noel Jefferson USA Nominee "2001 - 2016 WTC" Calatrava's WTC Oculus

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Nola Sumner Australia Nominee "Downlights" Crown Casino, Perth, Australia

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Olav-Inge Alfheim Norway Nominee "Babels Tower" At Iceland' s south coast. A lighthouse, clody weather... and suddenly I was thinking on Babels Tower.

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Pamela Aminou UK Nominee "Hope" Dark Hope series - Keep hope alive through the darkest time

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Pamela Aminou UK Nominee "Enlightment " Dark hope series - Keep hope alive through the darkest time

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Patricia Turo USA Nominee "Gelmersee Padestrian Bridge" Spans over two waterfalls at the bottom of the Gelmersee Valley, Switzerland

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Patricia Turo USA Nominee "Raymond and Marie Stata Center" Located at MIT, Cambridge MA, Grank Gehry Architect

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Patrick Ems Switzerland Nominee "Reconnect" Havana, January 2015

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Paul Hetzel USA Nominee "3 Crosses" 3 Crosses Atop Mission Church Taos Pueblo

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Paul Hetzel USA Nominee "Light Entering" Streams of light entering an abandoned grain silo, Buffalo

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Paulo Mittelman Brazil Nominee "Magic House" Seeing this house almost within a forest near Rio de Janeiro, I remembered the stories I heard in childhood.

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Peter Stadler Austria Nominee "Downtown Manhattan" New York City 2015

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Peter Kurdulija New Zealand Nominee "Wing Over Civic Square" Wellington, New Zealand

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Peter Ydeen USA Nominee "I am not a Trinket" Some architecture by accident

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Peter Ydeen USA Nominee "Sign Mimic" A traffic sign accentuates the composition

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Petter Rustad Norway Nominee "Ode To Osaka" Inside the Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn's proposal for the Nordic Pavilion for the World Expo ´70

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Pietrino Di Sebastiano Italy Nominee "Hotel" Hotel, Ljubljana - Slovenia

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Pygmalion Karatzas Greece Nominee "Mechanics Monument Plaza" Mechanics Monument Plaza at San Francisco

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Rachel Choong M H Malaysia Nominee "Cobweb" The Cobweb building exterior and string design remind of the tangled webs we weave throughout our lives.

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Rainer Quesada USA Nominee "Let's Advertise"

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Richard Smukler USA Nominee "Coverage" The French Quarter in New Orleans

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Robert Hewgley USA Nominee "Aria Falls"

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Roberto De Mitri Italy Nominee "Kiasma" Hasselblad 501CM, black and white negative film, medium format.

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Roberto Messina Italy Nominee "Absence" Shot on film in may this year, in italy. A railway station underground passage. in Alessandria.

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roger branson UK Nominee "Venice Abandoned The Grand Canal" The year is 2050--the Europe of the past has been forgotten---Venice has been abandoned.

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Roger Parvin USA Nominee "Old Trestle" The contrast between the steel supports and the one stone support now abandon set against the stormy sky caused me to pull over and spend some time taking images of this structure.

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Roland Weber Germany Nominee "Station LU-Centre" Train station in Ludwigshafen/Rhein, Germany. Available light, Feb-2016

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Roman Dadiomov Russia Nominee "Spiral (3)"

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Roman Dadiomov Russia Nominee "Arcades"

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Ronny Behnert Germany Nominee "King's Crown" Berlin, Germany 2016

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Ronny Behnert Germany Nominee "Kyokusen" Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan 2016

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Rudi Neumaier Switzerland Nominee "Le Volcan theatre, Le Havre, France"

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Ryn Clarke USA Nominee "Bath, NY" This image is part of a series about the vanishing drive-in theaters in America.

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Sandra Hunter USA Nominee "lines (2)" The Getty Center, Los Angeles

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Sandrina Huish New Zealand Nominee "Boxed In"

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Sandrina Huish New Zealand Nominee "Tiritiri Lighthouse"

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Sandro Tedde Italy Nominee "AbstrActure 40"

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Sandro Tedde Italy Nominee "AbstrActure 41"

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Sarah Caldwell New Zealand Nominee "Apple Store Staircase"

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Sarah Caldwell New Zealand Nominee "Cube Peephole Reflection"

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Sarah Caldwell New Zealand Nominee "Stadium MRT"

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Sarah Caldwell New Zealand Nominee "Orchard Gateway Tube"

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Soren Harbel Spain Nominee "Winery" Winery - vera fotografia

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Stamatis Platounaris Greece Nominee "The Escherian Attalus" The Stoa of Attalus in the ancient Greek Agora of Athens

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Stamatis Platounaris Greece Nominee "Frozen Twilight" The venetian medieval castle of Methoni

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Stephen Allworth Australia Nominee "Havana" A more classical view of the Havana streetscape

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Stephen Allworth Australia Nominee "BA Bridge" Pedestrian bridge in Buenos Aires

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee "Among Canals No 2" Venice, Italy

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee "Home of the Venetian Basketmaker" Venice, Italy

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee "Church on the Prairie" Kansas, USA

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee "One Thousand Years in the Making" Venice, Italy

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee "Ramo ca Miani" Venice, Italy

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tamsin green UK Nominee "Sleeping Buildings" Shenyang, China, 2012

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Terry Ogden USA Nominee "Timeless View" A view of the Basilique du Sacre-Coeure de Monmartre in Paris, France.

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Thomas Kane Australia Nominee "In Search of Tranquility 2" The ruins of the old Brighton Pier sit peacefully, ignoring it's brash,noisy newer neighbours

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Thomas Kane Australia Nominee "In Search of Tranquility 3" Taking the hustle and bustle out London, June 2016

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Tom Sliter USA Nominee "Fog and Steel" The first tendrils of mid-day fog creep through the Golden Gate.

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Tony Gorham New Zealand Nominee "Huia Dam Calm" The Huia Dam New Zealand, late afternoon

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Tony Gorham New Zealand Nominee "DAM" One of the many New Zealand Hydro Dams

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Trevor Kerry UK Nominee "Deserted byre" On the bleak Lancashire fells this apparently disused building seems to sit as a monument to former activity. It is enhanced by the soft cirrus clouds.

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Tudor ApMadoc USA Nominee "Stairway" Pointe Aux Barques Light House, Michigan

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Vanda Ralevska UK Nominee "Deep into the Underground"

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Vanda Ralevska UK Nominee "Light Bulb"

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Vlasis Rafailidis Greece Nominee "WTC"

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Volker Birke Germany Nominee "Astrolab" Remnants of an abandoned coking plant, an industrial heritage site at Lauchhammer equipped with an observation deck

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Wong Choon Keat Malaysia Nominee "Channel 9, Dockland Melnourne#2"

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Ying Cai Japan Nominee "Winter" Walking in the alley, it began to snow, he looked up and saw this building as if talking to me

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Yousef Alkhamees USA Nominee "Endless Paths "

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Yousef Alkhamees USA Nominee "Illusion Doors"

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