The Art of Building photography competition shortlist announced
Flames lapping the edges of an Indian brick kiln, the concrete beams of Herzog & De Meuron's Beijing Olympic stadium, and a Gothic doorway in Milan's Doumo are among the images shortlisted for this year's Art of Building Photographer of the Year competition (+ slideshow).
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Images by 15 photographers were shortlisted by a panel of judges – including photography critic Sue Steward, photographer Matt Wain and Construction Manager magazine editor Elaine Knutt – to win the digital photography competition, organised by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).
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The photographs, which can now be voted on by the public, include a colour-saturated composition of an elongated pleasure dome in Germany by Ukrainian photographer Lana Yankovskaya, and a greyscale image of the living inhabitants of a Philippines graveyard by Abu Dhabi photographer Mario Bejagan Cardenas.
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A number of the images capture the construction progress and maintenance of buildings – Vietnamese photographer Hoang Long Ly shows a cleaner among the gilded arches of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, while British photographer Richard Pennington offers a worms-eye view of the construction of Amsterdam's new metro line.
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Swiss photographer Pierre Cuony frames the silhouette of an airplane through a triangular aperture in the golden porch of One London Bridge by British firm John S. Bonnington Partnership, and a woman peers through a porthole window into the bathroom of Italian architect Giuseppe Perugini's now-abandoned home in Fregene, Italy, in Californian photographer Lisa Shalom's submission.
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A woman is framed by the triangular beams of the Milwaukee Art Museum in Patrick Mouzawak's greyscale image. Meanwhile, the submission from Pessoa Neto captures two children in a dramatic light shaft leaking through the concrete roof plane of a library by architect Alvaro Siza in northern Portugal.
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Makeshift shelters by children are the focus of a black and white image by Bangladeshi entrant Pulock Biswas, while fellow Bangladeshi photographer Wahid Adnan captures a Muslim man deep in contemplation on a Dhaka rooftop.
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The Art of Building Photographer of the Year competition, now in its fifth year, is open to both amateur and professional architectural photographers.
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Voting is open until 11 January 2015, and can be registered through the Art of Building website. The name of the winner, who will be awarded a £3,000 cash prize, will be announced on 5 February.