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Heygate Estate by Simon Kennedy, winner of the Architecture and Place category 2011

Heygate Estate by Simon Kennedy, winner of the Architecture and Place category 2011

I’m excited to be on the judging panel for the 4th Architect’s Eye photography competition, now open for entries. Open to UK architects & part II students.
Closing date for entries is Tuesday 30th April.

Organized by International Art Consultants and supported by The Royal Photographic Society, the Architect’s Eye competition has been celebrating and encouraging architects’ passion for photography since 2007. Now, in its fourth edition, UK architects are challenged to submit photos into two distinct categories: Architecture and Place and Architecture and People. The former focuses solely on the aesthetics of the architecture and places it creates, while the latter explores and celebrates the interaction of people with the environments created by architects. There are no restrictions on which buildings qualify for the competition.

The winner in each category will receive a weekend break for two anywhere in the EU. There will also be Special Commendation prizes awarded at the judges’ discretion.

The finalist and winning works will be showcased in an exhibition at Roca London Gallery coinciding with the start of the London Festival of Architecture 2013.

This year the Architect’s Eye Judging Panel is chaired by leading architect Simon Allford, Director at Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. Alongside Allford, the prestigious judging panel will be composed of renowed architect Keith Priest (Fletcher Priest Architects), noted architectural photographers Quintin Lake and George Kavanagh, Martine Hamilton Knight (The Royal Photographic Society) and Dr Irena Murray (Sir Banister Fletcher Director, British Architectural Library, RIBA).

More information here!

For more, check out which images were awarded top honors in last year’s competition

Geneity reception

Geneity reception reflects the betting aspect of their business

Business bar separates reception from meeting rooms

Business bar separates reception from meeting rooms

Detail of business bar

Detail of business bar

Private spaces have windows visually connecting to the rest of the office

Private spaces have windows visually connecting to the rest of the office

Interior view of meeting room windows

Interior view of meeting room windows

Faceted meeting rooms help break down the standard cellular feeling of such spaces

Faceted meeting rooms help break down the standard cellular feeling of such spaces

Clothes hooks in the canteen

Clothes hooks in the canteen

Canteen

Canteen

The orange palette runs through the design

The orange palette runs through the design

An assignment for architects Barr Gazetas to photograph their dynamic faceted office interior for Geneity, an online betting software company in London.

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Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Living room with flush fitting door to kitchen at far left

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Many fittings are coordinated in Ferrari red

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Detail of dining table lamp

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Dining table with storage below bench seat

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Bang & Olufsen AV system in living room

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Ferrari red dining chair

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Living room and office

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Detail of fitted furniture

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Bedroom

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Soft furnishing in bedroom

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Detail of custom shower enclosure

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Custom shower enclosure

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

The carefully lit kitchen cabinets

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

the kitchen is a subtle palette of white and grey

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Red hanging files

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Bespoke recessed cupboard handles

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Detail of kitchen cabinets

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Custom floor to ceiling doors have no frame

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Electronic control switch

Barrett Street Residence, London. Krause Architects

Bedroom with en suite

Immaculately detailed minimalist London apartment for a Ferrari collector by Krause Architects and Upton-Hansen Architects. The apartment was handed over to the client fully furnished with every detail chosen to reflect the owners interest in quality materials and sports car aesthetics.

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At the front door, the house opens up to provide clear views through to the garden and staircase

The kitchen on the first floor,  serves both a functional purpose and defines the surrounding spaces

The discrete wall panelling provides an understated backdrop to the ground floor living activities

Full-height doors allow the spaces of the house to flow into each other

Hidden doors conceal laundry and storage spaces beyond

Contemporary fit out to 1930′s semi detached house in North London by Krause Architects. This photoshoot was about getting the right simplicity of composition and colour tone to compliment the minimal and refined design. Most shots were taken with a 17mm tilt shift lens with fill-in flash when needed. As the interiors had mixed natural and artificial light sources (which appear as different colours in camera) these were balanced by masking in post production.

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Oxford University Biochemistry Building at dusk, Oxford, UK. Architects: Hawkins Brown, Built 2008

Coloured glass fins of Oxford University Biochemistry Building in evening light

Abstract detail of the Coloured glass fins of Oxford University Biochemistry Building

Coloured glass fins set against the sky

Fire in the Evening, Paul Klee, Oil on board, 1929

Coloured glass fins of the New Oxford University Biochemistry Building, by Hawkins Brown frame views in and out of the building, creating complex and subtle patterns of colour as the light changes. According to the architects the fins reflect the rich red, terracotta, orange, brown and purple of the nearby buildings though to me they have a refreshingly assertive identity of their own.

The final combination and rhythm of colours was influenced by the Bauhaus artist Paul Klee’s theories as can be seen by looking at his works such as “Fire in the Evening” (above). This sophisticated use of colour in architecture won the building the WAN Colour in Architecture award in 2011. For another stunning use of coloured glass in architecture see my photographs of “My Rainbow Horizon” in Denmark

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Mural text reads “Martyrdom is the art of the men of God”. Imam Khomeini” and “Generals Shiroodi and Keshvari”

Mural commemorating martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war, Tehran (notice two windows in the wall)

Mural text reads “The Martyr Pilots of IRI Army Aviation: Major-General Mansour VatanPour, Major-General Seyed Shahrokh Azin”,

Mural commemorating martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war, Tehran

Obscured English text reads “Down with USA & Israel. His excellency the leader: Imam Khomeini’s followers are always supporting Palestinians and fight their enemies”

Mural commemorating martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war, Tehran

Mural commemorating martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war, Tehran

Murals commemorating martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) Tehran, Iran, 2008. Please let me know if you can help translating the Farsi in the images above where no translation is shown.

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Exterior of Ice house or Yakhchal, Abarqu, Iran

Brick interior of Yakhchal

An ice house or Yakhchal is an ancient refrigerator allowing the storage of ice in the desert in summer. It was collected in winter and kept cool by its shape and walls made from special mortar called srooj, composed of sand, clay, egg whites, lime, goat hair, and ash, which was resistant to heat transfer. Abarqu, Iran, 2008

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Gravesend Library new entrance at dusk. Architect: Clay Architecture

The project which opened in 2011 by Clay Architecture involved the conservation, refurbishment and fit-out of a 106 year-old Grade II listed Carnegie Library building in Gravesend, Kent

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