Every year, stock photography source Arcaid hosts a competition to find the best architectural photographs in the world in four categories: exteriors, interiors, buildings in use, and sense of place. The 2016 contest will be judged by The Architectural Review executive editor Emily Booth, Sto Werkstatt curator Amy Croft, Foster + Partners head of communications Katy Harris, BIG architect Kai-Uwe Bergmann, and photographers Fernando Guerra and Ulrich Müller. Arcaid recently released a 20-photo short list—the images will be displayed at the World Architectural Festival in Berlin from November 16 through 18, and a winner will be announced at the program’s gala. arcaidawardom
Gensler’s Shanghai Tower in Shanghai.
Lina Bo Bardi’s SESC Pompeia in São Paolo.
sP+a Architects’s Lattice House in Kashmir, India.
Herzog & de Meuron’s Vitra Shaudepot in Weil am Rhein, Germany.
Yrjo Lindegren and Toivo Jantti’s Helsinki Olympic Stadium in Helsinki.
Rafael Moneo’s Jesus Church in San Sebastian, Spain.
SelgasCano’s 2015 Serpentine Pavilion in London.
A Derry Road resident in his UK home by Bell Phillips Architects.
East London Waterworks Company’s Covered Reservoir in London, built in 1868.
Finkernagel Ross Architects fabricates a helical staircase in Littlehampton, UK.
Coop Himmelb(l)au‘s Musée des Confluences in Lyon, France.
Wiel Arets Architects’s Allianz Headquarters in Zurich.
Independence Square in Accra, Ghana.
Sou Fujimoto’s Forest of Light for COS at Milan Design Week.
The Dharavi neighborhood in Mumbai.
Heerim Architects and Rossetti’s Baku National Stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Plain Projects, Urbanink, and Pike Projects’s Hygge House warming hut in Winnipeg, Canada.
Aleksandar Stjepanovic’s Blok 23, Novi Beograd, in Belgrade, Serbia.
Workers build the Haduwa Arts & Culture Institute in Apam, Ghana, designed by [a]FA_[applied] Foreign Affairs.
Peter Zumthor’s Bruder Klaus Field Chapel in Mechernich-Wachendorf, Germany.