Architectural Photography Award 2023 (Partial-Download)

A holiday home in the outskirts of Mumbai, a very rugged location near Khopoli, that is accessed occasionally by the owners, and more often by the people that nurture the house and take care of it. Captured this local woman walking on the landscape pathways designed by the architect. A melange of red soil, blue sky, green tree and the saree adorned by the woman, all splashed upon a canvas of the yellow house.

A short visit to the National Museum of Qatar, a beautiful building designed with natures beauty in mind. In capturing the essence of what the famous architect Jean Novel envisioned for this design, including the many circular array of flat plates that you see, we become engulfed in a larger version of a deserts rose crystal, native to many regions including Libya, Algeria and Saudi Arabia. The intricate features and patterns residing in this masterpiece merge beautifully with the landscape of Doha, making the Museum a must to visit.

Kazakhstan renamed its capital Nur-Sultan in honour of its former president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who resigned in 2019 after holding power for three decades. Formerly known as Akmola (white tomb) and then later Astana (the capital), the city was first designated as the capital by Nazarbayev in 1997, replacing Almaty. Until then, it was only a remote corner of the former USSR, a region known for its icy climate and for hosting one of Stalin's notorious Gulags. Conceived by Nazarbayev, Nur-Sultan was designed to befit a country rich in minerals and oil. He recruited the talents of renowned architects such as Sir Norman Foster and over time constructed a city of concrete and glass, full of impressive futuristic buildings, huge shopping centres and enviable sports halls. What was once a forgotten and inhospitable territory is today a city of 800,000 inhabitants, as incredible and eccentric as any of its wealthier neighbours.