Terrence Zhang has been named the winner of the 2017 Arcaid Images Architectural Photographer of the Year Award for his "striking image" of the Swimming Pool at the New Campus of Tianjin University in China, designed Atelier Li Xinggang. Announced on the final day of the World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Berlin, the image was lauded for its ability to capture the shafts of sunlight entering through the clerestory and interacting with the water.

The image is framed beautifully by the curved ceiling arches of the structure’s roof
Zhang will be presented with a $3,000 prize at the 'Building Images' exhibition at Sto Werkstatt, London in February, where all of the shortlisted images will be displayed. Arcaid Images has revealed the shortlist of 20 images in the running for the title of World's Best Building Image in their 2017 Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards. The annual award selects photographs in four categories - Exterior, Interior, Sense of Place, and Building in Use - which are judged by an esteemed panel of designers, photographers and journalists based on their atmospheric quality, composition, use of scale and more. Just as with any architectural work, a multitude of elements combine to make the perfect photograph. Beyond finding aesthetic inspiration, finding symmetry and paying exacting attention to lighting and the interplay of the elements is crucial.Shanghai-based photographer Terrence Zhang captured all of those elements in his work that won the overall architectural photography prize at this year’s World Architecture Festival. His photograph of the swimming pool at the New Campus of Tianjin University vividly reflects how the space’s oval windows diffuse light over the water, simultaneously capturing the interplay between the barrel-vaulted ceiling’s cold austerity alongside the natural elements of light and water.
It was one of three photographs by Zhang that were shortlisted for the WAF’s Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards. In addition to the pool photo, Zhang also earned shortlist honors for his images of Tianjin University’s gymnasium and the Kengo Kuma–designed folk art galleries at the China Academy of Arts. Among other selections exhibited in the Berlin event last week were photographs of a Zaha Hadid Architects–designed museum tucked into an Italian mountaintop and a chapel outside of Cape Town with an undulating roof envisioned by Steyn Studio. Terrence Zhang has been named the winner of the 2017 Arcaid Images Architectural Photographer of the Year Award for his "striking image" of the Swimming Pool at the New Campus of Tianjin University in China, designed Atelier Li Xinggang. Announced on the final day of the World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Berlin, the image was lauded for its ability to capture the shafts of sunlight entering through the clerestory and interacting with the water.

"The image is framed beautifully by the curved ceiling arches of the structure’s roof," commented WAF.

Zhang will be presented with a $3,000 prize at the 'Building Images' exhibition at Sto Werkstatt, London in February, where all of the shortlisted images will be displayed. Arcaid Images has revealed the shortlist of 20 images in the running for the title of World's Best Building Image in their 2017 Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards. The annual award selects photographs in four categories - Exterior, Interior, Sense of Place, and Building in Use - which are judged by an esteemed panel of designers, photographers and journalists based on their atmospheric quality, composition, use of scale and more. Just as with any architectural work, a multitude of elements combine to make the perfect photograph. Beyond finding aesthetic inspiration, finding symmetry and paying exacting attention to lighting and the interplay of the elements is crucial.
Shanghai-based photographer Terrence Zhang captured all of those elements in his work that won the overall architectural photography prize at this year’s World Architecture Festival. His photograph of the swimming pool at the New Campus of Tianjin University vividly reflects how the space’s oval windows diffuse light over the water, simultaneously capturing the interplay between the barrel-vaulted ceiling’s cold austerity alongside the natural elements of light and water.

It was one of three photographs by Zhang that were shortlisted for the WAF’s Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards. In addition to the pool photo, Zhang also earned shortlist honors for his images of Tianjin University’s gymnasium and the Kengo Kuma–designed folk art galleries at the China Academy of Arts. Among other selections exhibited in the Berlin event last week were photographs of a Zaha Hadid Architects–designed museum tucked into an Italian mountaintop and a chapel outside of Cape Town with an undulating roof envisioned by Steyn Studio.