City clickers

This was an image that scored consistently well with all of the judges. There's much to love in this image of the Sage Concert Hall in Gateshead. It's a multilayered image, one that makes great use of a silhouetted foreground a misty middle-ground and a beautifully atmospheric background with the sky. A common sight with much architecture photography is the contrast between old and new. Here we see traditional older houses set against a modernist structure. It's almost as if the newer structure is pushing the older houses into the background of the past, hence the silhouette. It's a great image and a more than worthy winner.

In this colour and light-saturated image, we get an unconventional angle on a museum in Leopold Vanderkelenstraat, Belgium. The image carries an abstract quality, a result of the photographer angling their camera up and shooting into the atmospheric and twilight sky.

There are two tried and tested approaches to architecture photography here. First we see that the photographer has angled the camera up to capture the leading lines of windows. Second, we see a plane just flying into view and framed perfectly by the curvature of the building.

The Evolution Tower in the Moscow International Business Centre is an already impressive structure, but here we see how it can be shot in a truly dynamic way. The tower disappearing into the mist is wonderfully atmospheric and flipping the image upside down means there is a degree of visual abstraction that keeps the eye and mind engaged.

Underpasses in cities are a common location, and here we see why. Everything about his image works. The light is beautiful, the composition couldn't be bettered and the photographer has managed to happen upon two people who bring the image together perfectly. It's a cinematic image and one that evokes a story in the viewer's mind.

Including people in a cityscape shot can do much to emphasise the scale and graphic complexity of a scene. Shooting in the city also shows how important it is to have a good eye for shapes and forms.Cityscapes require you to break down a scene to its most basic graphic elements. In this way you can avoid being overwhelmed by a location and walk away with a pleasingly composed image.

Hong Kong is famous for its stacked apartments and we're seeing more and more photographers looking for ways to capture that in their images. Here we see a truly vertiginous approach that illustrates and emphasises these growing structures that are becoming more and more coming throughout the city.