2023 Winners & Finalists

Thousands of people come together to pray over several floors of one of the biggest mosques in the world. Those taking part in group prayers can be seen neatly lined up as they stand, sit, kneel and bow during prayers. The National Mosque of Bangladesh can hold up to 40,000 people, including in the outside open space.

Bangladesh needs a lot of material to push forward its development, and that is why you can see a lot of brick factories in the country, where men, women and even children work in difficult and dangerous conditions. The men are covered with dust transforming them into earth statues that endangers their health.

At over 3000m, the observatory is a unique architectural design. It serves as a bridge between the terrestrial world and the celestial heavens. The observatory, which also features a hotel, offers an immersive experience, inviting its guests to study the wonders of the natural world in an otherwise remote and hard-to-access area.

The covered bridge that crosses the entrance encourages people to establish a connection between the lotus pond and the hills, using the building as a window to more fully appreciate the surrounding nature.

 F51 – named so after its Folkestone-based location – wasn’t supposed to be the world’s first multi-storey skatepark. Commissioned by philanthropist Sir Roger De Haan, the original idea was that it should be a multi-storey car park, after which plans morphed into a hybrid of the two, before settling on that which everyone wanted: a skatepark set on multiple floors.

In this photo the geometry of the cabins creates a series of images that multiply symmetrically. The blue colour prevails, the roofs of the cabins blend with the sky and the sea to create a very pleasing composition.

Henning Larsen Architects emerged as the winner of a design competition in Vejle. Their idea was to create an organic and at the same time sculptural form: a wave. Above all, the natural conditions found in the immediate surroundings inspired the architects to create this unusual building shape.

Nandgaon is a historical town in the Mathura district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is believed that Krishna in his childhood lived in Nandgaon with his family. It was named after Nand Baba, father of Krishna and features lots of famous temples related to the times of Krishna.

This is the ceiling of the Qeysarieh Gate, part of the ceremonial site of the Safavid court and a 400-year-old national mansion protected by UNESCO.

A father and his daughter are walking on the grass where a giant disc-like building is illuminated by the summer twilight.

Located in Shunde, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, when you view the building from above it looks like an ancient necklace and yet it is made of buildings connected in a series.

I took this photo in 2019 of the Nakagin Capsule Tower that was later demolished in 2022. The entire building was already covered with a net since the capsules were almost all abandoned and deteriorated. Now the building is only a ghost of the architects efforts.

The Silk Road is an economic development strategy initiated by China to promote the common development of various countries, and unique Silk Road Art Museums can be found all over China, with their unique shapes and exaggerated artistic curves, perfectly presenting the characteristics of architectural diversity.