Architectural - Amateur

Michel Groleau Canada 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Just a bit of hope" At the Holocaust Memorial one can feel oppression. But a little greenery appears and hope is reborn.

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Gino Ricardo Netherlands 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Thinking in boxes" Combining architecture with street photography

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James Meldrum USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Midwestern Architecture"

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Wolfgang Wiesen Germany Honorable Mention "Hajdar Center" Hajdar Alijew Cultural Center in Baku, Azerbaijan

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Stefano Degli Esposti Italy Honorable Mention "Crowd" Study of the architectural features of the Dome - Milan (IT)

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G.B. Smith USA Honorable Mention "Implode" Refracted light on the structure of the Frank Gehry designed Cleveland Clinic in Las Vegas, USA.

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James Meldrum USA Honorable Mention "Midnight"

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Sidney Gaspar Brazil Honorable Mention "Coimbra" Coimbra

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Rob Bekker Netherlands Honorable Mention "Amsterdam Central Station" The Amsterdam central station is the second busiest railway station of The Netherlands

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Barry Brukoff USA Honorable Mention "Casa Battlo Stairs" PART OF AN ONGOING SERIES OF STAIRS WHICH HAVE FASCINATED ME

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Sheryl Falkos USA Honorable Mention "Finally Made It To Alaska!" Haines, Alaska, USA. An awesome adventure! May 2019

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Petter Rustad Norway Honorable Mention "Zigzag Theory" Oslo, Norway

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Gino Ricardo Netherlands Honorable Mention "one park drive"

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Curtis Fedder USA Honorable Mention "Marina City, Chicago"

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Aynsley Stelfox Canada Honorable Mention "City Gods"

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G.B. Smith USA Honorable Mention "Aquastair" A study of the patterns and forms created by water in man made architectures.

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Tudor ApMadoc USA Honorable Mention "Matrix Theater Detroit at Night"

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Rob Bekker Netherlands Honorable Mention "The Zeeland Bridge" The Zeeland Bridge is the longest bridge in the Netherlands.

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Volker Kesting Netherlands Honorable Mention "Santorini"

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Steve Day Australia Honorable Mention "Dark Echo"

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Magnus Karlson Sweden Honorable Mention "Derelict" On the way to Mt Rainier I found this rusty piece of old farmland

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Gino Ricardo Netherlands Honorable Mention "Concrete jungle" When urbanization takes over in Europe

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Partha Roy Singapore Honorable Mention "Skyline of Dubai" Skyline of Dubai Marina

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Patrick Hofmann Germany Honorable Mention "Silence" Charles Bridge, 2020 (Prague, Czech Republic)

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Oscar Lopez Germany Honorable Mention "Dockland" The Dockland Building at the Elbe River in Hamburg, Germany

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Wolfgang Mothes Germany Honorable Mention "Lego Houses"

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Aengus MacNeil USA Nominee "Level Up" Stairway to Level 2

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Ahmad Kaddourah Palestinian Settlements Nominee "The Pointe"

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Akira Yoshizawa Japan Nominee "Castle in the Sky" Location: Levoca Slovakia Camera: PENTAX K-3

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Alan Gaynor USA Nominee "Passage" Passage between 6th and 7th Avenues

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Alan Sandler USA Nominee "Courthouse Perspective" St. Louis Federal Courthouse

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Andre Kurenbach Germany Nominee "Streetart Denis Klatt" Streetart has grown to an integral part of urban culture. Dortmund/ Ger, 2020

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Andrea Ivor Hungary Nominee "On the way"

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Andrew Trousdale USA Nominee "Ladakhi Ruins" Taken in Khardung La, the world's highest pass. 2018.

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Angela Vicedomini Germany Nominee "The Bridge"

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Ann-Mari Broman USA Nominee "Brooklyn Bridge"

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Anne Eigen USA Nominee "An Architectural Aspect"

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee "Unstructered structure"

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee "Barcode 1"

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee "Olympic Park Barcelona"

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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee "Cal D'or"

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Antje Bormann France Nominee "Moon over Paris" The view from a hotel room in La Defense, Paris, filled with lights of all sorts

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Aubra Franklin USA Nominee "Salute Church" Homage to the Masters: Honoring architectural masterpieces and celebrating the artistry.

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Aubra Franklin USA Nominee "Gapstow Bridge" Homage to the Masters: Honoring architectural masterpieces and celebrating the artistry.

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Aubra Franklin USA Nominee "Mission Espada" Homage to the Masters: Honoring architectural masterpieces and celebrating the artistry.

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Aynsley Stelfox Canada Nominee "Hierarchy"

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Barry Brukoff USA Nominee "SF MOMA Stairs" PART OF AN ONGOING SERIES OF STAIRS WHICH HAVE FASCINATED ME

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Barry Brukoff USA Nominee "Magical Gazebo" A BLEND OF FINE ART, NATURE & ARCHITECTURE

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Bart Nelissen Netherlands Nominee "Hovenring" This cycling roundabout, hovering high over a crossing, transports you straight into the future.

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Brittany Comunale USA Nominee "The First Sign of Home"

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Budd Parker USA Nominee "The Gateway"

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Carol Smokler USA Nominee "old US Embassy Saigon" design from a bygone era

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Carol Smokler USA Nominee " Church railing" simple design with spider's web

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Carol Smokler USA Nominee "Lynching Memorial" At the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Montgomery, Ala

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Carol Schiraldi USA Nominee "Signs at Night" Signs at night in downtown Guilin, China

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Christine Jacobson New Zealand Nominee "Corridors of Power" Decommissioned power plant in Sydney

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Christophe Matsacos Cyprus Nominee "Stairway to Heaven"

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Cilia Rodriguez USA Nominee "Close Encounters" Abstract look of a building in Miami Art Design District, Florida.

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Claudio Bonaccorsi Italy Nominee "Naval architecture"

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Constance Teo Malaysia Nominee "Encore Melaka" The elegant lines of the Encore Melaka performance theatre befits the historical town of Melaka.

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Damaso Avila Spain Nominee "Peak" THE AUDITORIUM OF TENERIFE (SPAIN), DESIGNED BY SANTIAGO CALATRAVA, REMEMBERS US OF THE PEAK OF A MA

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Dana Mikaelle Romania Nominee "Sky Scape "

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Dave Cohen USA Nominee "A Piece Of Sky"

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Debbie Rubin USA Nominee "Weather" The contrast between the iron bridge and the amorphous clouds was brilliant.

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Demetrio Jereissati Brazil Nominee "Hotel" Late night in Lyon...from the window of the Hotel

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Diane Epstein USA Nominee "Emptiness" Montreal Holocaust Museum

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Donald Wilson USA Nominee "Sandstorm Over Cairo" A sandstorm moves in as the ancient pyramids loom over modern Cairo.

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Emmanuelle Becker France Nominee "Flatiron under renovation"

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Ernesto Rodriguez USA Nominee "Linked" Structural details at this bridge evoke our society, the whole is as strong as its weakest link.

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Frank Proost Luxembourg Nominee "Not a single cloud in sight" 2020, Luxembourg, low angle view on the "Philharmonie" music hall and office building next to it

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Frank Loddenkemper Germany Nominee "Love of Curves 2.0"

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Frederic Deschenes Canada Nominee "Fusion"

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Frits Van de Reep Netherlands Nominee "X_27_A_S_9585" Frits van de Reep - X_27_A_S_9585

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G.B. Smith USA Nominee "Dam Patterns" A study of the patterns and forms created by water in man made architectures.

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G.B. Smith USA Nominee "Herringbone" A study of the patterns and forms created by water in man made architectures.

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G.B. Smith USA Nominee "Collapsed" Refracted light on the structure of the Frank Gehry designed Cleveland Clinic in Las Vegas, USA.

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G.B. Smith USA Nominee "Marble Arches" A study of the Woodrow Wilson bridge over the Patomac River in Washington DC, USA

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G.B. Smith USA Nominee "Cubed" A study of the cubed geometric forms in modern architecture

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G.B. Smith USA Nominee "Rounding" A study of the Native American Museum in Washington DC, USA.

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G.B. Smith USA Nominee "Pyramids of Pei" A study of the National Gallery of art, designed by I.M.Pei.

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Gabriela Landa USA Nominee "Palmhut" Back-to-the-roots and futuristic alike, this image portrays the ultimate organic, climate-friendly,

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Gayle Pepper USA Nominee "Moon over Snow over Skyline" A wonderful peaceful evening in Los Angeles and the end of 2020.

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Gino Ricardo Netherlands Nominee "Cocoons" Cocoons, who lives here and what is the function of this blade runnerish cubes

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Gino Ricardo Netherlands Nominee "The Rotterdam" The Rotterdam

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Glenn Suttenfield USA Nominee "Building Brush" The undulating New York Hall of Science appears to be painting the sky.

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Gwen Solomon USA Nominee "Courtyard" Light and Shadow in a Miami Courtyard

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Hans Bauer Germany Nominee "Innsbruck, Hungerburgstation" from Zaha Hadid, built in Austria

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Harald Weimann Germany Nominee "Lighthouse Javea at night"

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Harry Lieber Germany Nominee "Vertatur BW II" For the love of staircases

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Hartmut Rieg Germany Nominee "Shadowplay 3"

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Henrique Murta Spain Nominee "Barcelona Solitaria" Gothic neighbourhood, Barcelona. From the perspective of a lonely walker.

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Ian Shand New Zealand Nominee "Wine bank 2" Night shrouds the illuminated old Bank of New Zealand building now repurposed as a wine bank in the market town of Martinborough, Wairarapa, New Zealand 2020

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Ian Mountford UK Nominee "Passage of Time" A lone bothy slowly surrendering to the battering from the harsh Scottish elements

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Ignacio Romero Naves Spain Nominee "Imagination" Seville, Spain.

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Ilias Varelas Greece Nominee "Medieval Tales" Medieval fortification in the port town of Methoni, Messenia, in southwestern Greece.

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Ilya Trofimenko Germany Nominee "Undine and the bridge"

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Jane Craig Walker UK Nominee "Angles and Lines" Complexity of modern architecture outside the V&A in London

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Jane Craig Walker UK Nominee "Silk Road Pantheon" A pantheon marks the historical site of Sarayshyk and protects a sacred wishing tree within

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Janis Ehlers USA Nominee "Abstract 1" Triangle Abstraction

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Jean-Marc Felix Switzerland Nominee "Evening mass " Soft organ music can be heard from the warm church into the cold night

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Jeff Lucas Canada Nominee "Cardero Tower" Cardero, unique building, features distinctive screens. Designed by architecture firm Henriquez Part

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Jennifer Nelson USA Nominee "Winterthur Staircase" The Montmorenci Staircase was purchased by Henry DuPont from a North Carolina plantation.

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Jessica Margo USA Nominee "Grace" The Great Auditorium, Ocean Grove, NJ. Known as God's square mile at the Jersey shore.

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John Twiname New Zealand Nominee "Vanishing Point" The curves in this sea defense interplay with the light entering the side of the structure.

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John Twiname New Zealand Nominee "Stargate" The distinctive triangular shape and contrasting shades draws the viewer’s eyes to the empty white space and whatever lies beyond.

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Jorge Conde Spain Nominee "One Minute Before Collapsing" Included in the "Any Place Is Another Place" project.

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Joseph Ptacek USA Nominee "Old Corral"

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Jurius Jurius Indonesia Nominee "Cover in the White"

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karen M Smith USA Nominee "The library"

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Katherine Young UK Nominee "The Void"

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Katherine Young UK Nominee "Scar Tissue"

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Kathryn McGarvey Canada Nominee "Exoskeleton" One of Valencia's Magical Architectural Structures

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Katrin Blumenschein Germany Nominee "Into the sky"

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Keith Wilson Germany Nominee "Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart" The Stadtbibliothek is the public library of the city of Stuttgart, Germany.

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Kelly Tringas Australia Nominee "St Mary’s Cathedral Sydney" Holy Serenity Nature

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Kent Wisner USA Nominee "Tower Stairs" Triangles, Rectangles, and a question about why one would take the stairs

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Kip Harris Canada Nominee "SF MOMA" Central Atrium

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Klaus-Juergen Roericht Switzerland Nominee "Venice"

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Konstantinos Oikonomou Greece Nominee "Cycladic" An abstract approach to the unique characteristics of Cycladic architecture

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Larry Dunn USA Nominee "Shapes" The variety of shapes at the City of Arts & Sciences. Valencia, Spain

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Larry Dunn USA Nominee "Into Hades" The Opera House at the City of Arts & Sciences. Valencia, Spain

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Larry Alford USA Nominee "Church Stairwell" This is a stairwell at a church in Dallas, Texas

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Liz Hardley New Zealand Nominee "Building Auckland"

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Loh Soo Mui Malaysia Nominee "Dream Land"

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Madeleine Corbeil USA Nominee "Look Up" The Tiffany ceiling of the Cultural Center of Chicago

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Magnus Karlson Sweden Nominee "Nature is a part of Japanese architecture " We often forget that nature must have its place to create the balance we seek.

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Marc Hodel Switzerland Nominee "Herzog & de Meron"

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Marie Keech USA Nominee "Brutal too" This residential building , although built recently, has many brutalist characteristics

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Mark Appleton Australia Nominee "Flowing Angles" Hard lines of the surf club frame the soft flow the ocean

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Martina Platte Hong Kong Nominee "The Old House"

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Marvin Basil USA Nominee "Upward Mobility"

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Matthew Wilkinson UK Nominee "Blyth Lighthouse" Blyth Light House, A beacon of light stood strong as its access walkway corrodes & crumbles.

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Matthew Wilkinson UK Nominee "Calm" Calm, Burnham on Sea lighthouse sat reflecting in the clam water of an November evening.

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Mauro Raunich Slovenia Nominee "Mausoleum" Imposing resting place

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Michael Koester Germany Nominee "Tempodrom"

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Michael Singer USA Nominee "Whorl" Surrealist staircase.

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Michel Groleau Canada Nominee "Spiral" The central staircase of the Quebec museum rivals the works of art of the place.

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Mildred Salas USA Nominee "Bridge" Captured from a moving car while driving on the FDR Drive NYC

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Morris Asato USA Nominee "Beneath the Lagoon Bridge" Structural view of a bridge that spans the water that flows from a lagoon to the ocean.

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Nicole Urbscheit Germany Nominee "The diamond" The past and future of the port of Antwerp come together in the new Porthouse. The lower part used

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Nikolai Endegor France Nominee "Imperor's Way" Place Vendome, Paris. To 250th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Ondrej Tichy Czech Republic Nominee "On Guard" Long exposure on the German cost of Baltic Sea

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Oscar Lopez Germany Nominee "Cruise Center" The Cruise Center Terminal in Hamburg, Germany

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Pamela Aminou UK Nominee "Through the shadows"

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Pat Maycroft UK Nominee "Angel Foot" Antony Gormley's Angel of the North

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Patrick O'Brien USA Nominee "San Angelo TX"

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Paul McClenaghan Australia Nominee "Albert Street, Auckland" Taken the last day of a road trip in New Zealand.

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Peter Wingerter Germany Nominee "the double house" urban house to live.

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Peter Marxer Liechtenstein Nominee "Treppenhaus" A stairwell in a residential building in Prague, Czech Republic

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Petter Rustad Norway Nominee "Summer Facade" Oslo, Norway

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Pier Luigi Altieri Italy Nominee "The Church" The Church, the center of Christianity, before the covid revolution.

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Prashant Naik USA Nominee "Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque" A serene vista of the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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Rachel Wei Canada Nominee "Ridge" The concept of the slab edge was meant to mimic ocean waves

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Regina Cserna Austria Nominee "Through the Peep-hole"

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Renata Apan Lithuania Nominee "Mushroom" Spain

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Renate Wasinger Germany Nominee "the palm" a house on fuerteventura

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Rene Schaedler Switzerland Nominee "White Peace"

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Richard Burdon UK Nominee "Changing Rooms" An abstract image of a row of bathers changing rooms at Saltburn

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Rie Asada Japan Nominee "Shirahige Shrine" There is a torii gate in Lake Biwa,

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Robert Bolton UK Nominee "Chapel at the Gates of Dawn" It was pre dawn and I was struck by the chapel on the promitory greeting the new day. Taken 2019

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Robert Davis USA Nominee "Eiffel Tower Las Vegas" A Beautiful replica

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Robert Ouimet Canada Nominee "Under the Light" Passageway under the lighthouse, Stanley Park, Vancouver

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Ruth Woodrow Australia Nominee "Curves" Calming lines inside the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne.

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Sally Paterson Australia Nominee "Westgate Bridge" Afternoon shadows created interesting patterns and angles, hidden from the traffic chaos above.

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Sidney Gaspar Brazil Nominee "The old bridge" Firenze

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Sonal Shah USA Nominee "The SGR" New Train track runs through Nairobi National Park in Kenya

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Stanislav Sitnikov Russia Nominee "Cosmos" Architecture, windows, lines

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Stefano Degli Esposti Italy Nominee "Christmas Tunnel" Cityscape of Christmas lights - Malaga (SP)

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Steffen Ebert Germany Nominee "Office Buildings" Office Building in Cologne

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Steffen Ebert Germany Nominee "Demolition" demolition of an old store house

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Stephen Allworth Australia Nominee "Silo"

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Steve Day Australia Nominee "Premier Tower"

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Sue Trower UK Nominee "Foreboding" A relic of the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands. This bunker still has the ability to chill

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Susan Langer USA Nominee "James Ream House, 1966"

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Susan Brandt Graham USA Nominee "Approaching Storm at Quarai"

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Suzanne Schwartzman USA Nominee "Stairway to Paradise" Glass circular staircase is leading to second floor of a hotel in India.

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Sylvia Gardner USA Nominee "Old Door" Old door to Nowhere

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Tatiana Gomez Bessa Mexico Nominee "Gills"

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Ted Witek Canada Nominee "Olympic Calderon Vancouver" Olympic Calderon Vancouver

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Tjutjut Bramantoro Indonesia Nominee "Abandoned fishing post" This bamboo fishing post can't stand any longer dealing with rough sea.

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Todor Tilev Ireland Nominee "Devil's Bridge" I took this picture of the Devil's Bridge nearvillage of Ardino in Bulgaria.

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Tudor ApMadoc USA Nominee "Lighthouse Rays" Point Betsie Lighthouse

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Urs Hintermann Switzerland Nominee "La Défense" Architecture can make people seem small and vulnerable.

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Vicki Gardner UK Nominee "Summerhouse at Great Ambrook #2" Pinhole image using infrared

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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Nominee "Observatorio"

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Win Tun Naing Myanmar Nominee "Facade"

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Winfried Alberti Germany Nominee "Behind the Reichstag/Berlin" Only a few walkers are out and around the government buildings at the time of second lockdown

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Wolfgang Mothes Germany Nominee "Wayne Manor"

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Wolfgang Mothes Germany Nominee "Unititled #3"

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Wolfgang Mothes Germany Nominee "Unititled #4"

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Wolfgang Mothes Germany Nominee "Unititled #5"

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Wolfgang Mothes Germany Nominee "Unititled #6"

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Wong Choon Keat Malaysia Nominee "Lines & lights-Seri Wawasan Bridge" Study of lines and lights of the Seri Wawasan Bridge, Putrajaya Malaysia.

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Xavier Arnau Bofarull Germany Nominee "Detour" Frankfurt am Main.

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Yoshiaki Nakane Japan Nominee "the Eiffel Tower" It's beautiful in every detail.

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