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In the Photo of the Year and winner of the Night & Low-Light category, Michael Luetge\u2019s Architectural Minimalism captures a former 1950s petrol station<\/a><\/strong> in Hamburg\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> Grindelviertel. Once defined by its sweeping canopy and now preserved as a listed building, the modest glass<\/strong><\/a> structure is framed at night as a composition of light, geometry, and urban memory.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Architecture Photography Awards 2025 Explore Light and form<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Light and its absence emerge as recurring protagonists in the rest of the awards<\/a> <\/strong>categories as well. In Chi Ho Gary Ng\u2019s Concrete Memento, sunlight funnels through the brutalist openings of Uji Station in Japan, spotlighting a solitary passerby on a staircase. His second APA 2025 winning entry, Hong Kong in the Veil, shifts to an urban scale, where skyscrapers pierce through thick sea fog at Victoria Harbour, backlit by a rare crimson sunset and the iconic silhouette of a junk boat.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Other winning images approach architecture through metaphor. Omar Garcia\u2019s Vertical Piano renders the stacked balconies of Rotterdam\u2019s Cooltoren tower as giant piano keys, illuminated at sunrise in black-and-white. Anthony Wang\u2019s Ascension looks upward into the atrium of Atlanta\u2019s Marriott Marquis, where John Portman\u2019s spiraling interior seems to pull the viewer skyward.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Several works emphasize architecture\u2019s dialogue with landscape. Paulo Sousa\u2019s aerial view of the Monte Rosa Hut, winner of the Drone and Aerial category, shows the metallic structure glinting against the Swiss Alps, balanced delicately above the expanse of the Gorner Glacier. In Iceland, Joseph Dunatov photographs Stykkish\u00f3lmskirkja, J\u00f3n Haraldsson\u2019s 1990 church, whose sculptural forms rise starkly against the coastal town\u2019s horizon.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n From Palermo\u2019s Cloisters to Tehran\u2019s Ice Cave<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Dario Lo Presti\u2019s Cloister of Monreale frames history and captures the Arab-Norman architecture of Palermo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where repeating arches echo centuries of craftsmanship. J\u00fcrgen Hammermann\u2019s Museum Staircase turns Duisburg\u2019s K\u00fcppersm\u00fchle Museum into a study of rhythm and circulation, while Parham Taghioff\u2019s shot of Ice Cave in Tehran fuses futuristic white curves with a living green wall.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Minimalism and abstraction take on intimate registers. Masaki Yazaki\u2019s Color Blocks isolates overlapping facades near his home, transforming everyday walls into geometric paintings. Josbel Tinoco\u2019s Yellow Jam goes further into spatial fiction, dissolving orientation into a monochromatic yellow pattern of depth and illusion.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n architecture shaped by people, time and atmosphere<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n APA 2025 shows how architecture is brought to life by people and the environment around it. Mario Tarantino\u2019s Interruption 1 captures a lone figure breaking the strict rhythm of a building\u2019s design. Elizabeth Crane\u2019s Bridge to Nowhere photographs the Zampa and Carquinez bridges in California disappearing into fog, turning solid infrastructure into something delicate. Ming Cheng\u2019s The Dark Knight Awaits freezes a dramatic lightning strike over Hong Kong\u2019s IFC tower, while car lights streak through the rainy city.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n In black-and-white Vertical City, Silent Peak, Shuchuan Liu photographs Tokyo\u2019s skyline from the Bunkyo Civic Center, setting the vertical rise of its towers against the timeless presence of Mount Fuji. Together, the APA 2025 winning photographs highlight the many ways architecture is seen and experienced. They show how buildings can be understood and felt through the changing contexts of time, atmosphere, and the people around them.<\/p>\n![\"1950s](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/photo-of-1950s-petrol-station-crowned-winner-of-architecture-photography-awards-designboom-10.jpg\")
Windows 5.9 by Werner Schwehm, winner in Windows<\/p>\n![\"1950s](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/photo-of-1950s-petrol-station-crowned-winner-of-architecture-photography-awards-designboom-05.jpg\")
Architectural Minimalism by Michael Luetge<\/a>, photo of the year, winner in Night & Low-light<\/p>\n![\"1950s](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/photo-of-1950s-petrol-station-crowned-winner-of-architecture-photography-awards-designboom-02.jpg\")
Cloister of Monreale by Dario Lo Presti<\/a>, winner in Historic Architecture<\/p>\n![\"1950s](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/photo-of-1950s-petrol-station-crowned-winner-of-architecture-photography-awards-designboom-08.jpg\")
Concrete Memento by Chi Ho Gary Ng<\/a>, winner in Light & Shadow<\/p>\n![\"1950s](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/photo-of-1950s-petrol-station-crowned-winner-of-architecture-photography-awards-designboom-01.jpg\")
Color Blocks by Masaki Yazaki<\/a>, winner in Minimalist<\/p>\n