Grand Designs: Striking Images of Buildings from China in 2017 Sony Photography Competition

[Shotgunner51]

Grand Designs: Striking Images of Buildings from China in 2017 Sony Photography Competition
24 March 2017

Some buildings and structures are stunning to behold at first glance, while others reveal themselves as something special when they’re shown at a certain angle, as these incredible images demonstrate. The pictures are all shortlisted and commended entries in the architecture category of the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards - the world's largest photography competition.

Images from the competition will be displayed at London's Somerset House between April 21 and May 7, 2017. The winners will be announced on April 20.

Here are some images from China:

A reflection of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing, during sunset

This picture taken in China elevates a tangle of roads from the mundane to high art – the aerial angle turning them into a mesmerising pattern

Urban life: A helipad in China next to row upon mesmerising row of highway traffic

China, Fuling, Chongqing municipality - an area that has been transformed in recent years from rural to urban. Daily life there has been captured here by Julien Chatelin

The skies darken as a storm approaches Larung Gar in Sichuan, China, home to the Five Sciences Buddhism Academy

Nearly 10,000 monks and nuns live in Larung Gar, pictured in this entry by Ming Keung Tam.

Original article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/t...-images-buildings-Sony-Photo-Competition.html

 

[ChineseToTheBone]

The very first building looks great here! Whenever my family came across the National Centre for the Performing Arts during the daytime in the past, we joked it was a giant cap due to its odd design. That scenery with the evening lighting in this picture however is absolutely spectacular.

 

[TaiShang]

This picture is beyond belief. Just wow.

@AndrewJin , @Shotgunner51 , this, I believe, is taken in Shanghai?

 

[Dungeness]

Now this tangled mess really got me thinking: Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going?

 

[TaiShang]

Now this tangled mess really got me thinking: Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going?

Gotham City (without that lisper, Batman, of course).