Az W's 'I ♥ ARCHITECTURE' Winners
Architekturzentrum Wien's Photo Award 2016, which goes under the motto "I LOVE ARCHITECTURE," sought photographs of buildings completed within the last fifty years. A jury selected ten winners that are featured here.
If the winner is any indication, the jury was drawn to photos illustrating contrast, particularly in regards to context (the fifth-place winner echoes this approach). In the case of John Fraser's untitled first-place winner, a reflective swoosh (a Gehry?) cuts across the historic context of low-scale brick buildings in Birmingham. As Az W wrote on their Facebook page, "The photo illustrates the transformation of an industrial town into a service industries city and opens up room for different interpretations. What do we see here? And, above all, where are we here?"
All of the winners are on display until 8 November 2016 at Architekturzentrum Wien's Az W Shop, while the first place winner, John Fraser, receives an Eames Plastic Chair by Vitra.
