Visions of Architecture: Revealing the Winners of the 2023 Vision Awards!

Feast your eyes on the most outstanding architectural photographs, videos, visualizations, drawing and models of 2023.

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Judging is complete and the big moment is finally here: Architizer is thrilled to announce the Winners of the inaugural Vision Awards, the world’s biggest awards program dedicated to the art of architectural representation!

The Architizer Vision Awards was conceived as a way to recognize the talented students, professionals and studios who envision the world’s architecture — both built and unbuilt — through amazing photography, drawings, renderings, videos, physical models and more. With hundreds of entries submitted across more than 30 categories, the response to our newest awards program was extraordinary. The Winners form a vibrant showcase of powerful architectural imagery and videography, setting a new benchmark for the industry.

Without further ado, explore the Winners and Special Mentions in every category via the official Vision Awards Winners’ Gallery:

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Including an incredible array of powerful photographs, immersive videos, fantastical renderings and intricate drawings, the winning works tell powerful stories about architecture and form a creative catalyst for the profession. The Vision Awards offered a range of accolades for firms, individuals and students, each of whom will see their work featured in print in the first edition of Visions of Architecture, a sumptuous softcover anthology that will be published very soon.

Here is a visual taste of just a few of this year’s Vision Awards Winners:

“Am Kupfergraben, Berlin (2018)” by Robert Herrmann, Professional Winner, Best Urban Architectural Photograph

“New Smyril Line headquarters, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands” by ELEMENT VISUALIZATIONS, Studio Winner, Best Photorealistic Architectural Visualization

“The Last Resort” by Nikhita Sivakumar, Student Winner, Best Hand Drawn Architectural Drawing

“Painterly” by Benjamin Ennemoser, Professional Winner, Best Physical Model

“Playful Growth” by Youyuan Lin, Student Winner, Best Urban Photograph

“The habitat of life” by Wei Tianjun, Professional Winner, Best AI-Assisted Visualization

“Residence, Minorca, Spain” by ELEMENT VISUALIZATIONS, Studio Winner, Architectural Visualizer of the Year

“Into the Void: Fragmented Time, Space, Memory, and Decay in Hiroshima” by Victoria Wong, Professional Winner, Best Computer Aided Architectural Drawing

“Pie in the sky” by Jean-Paul El Hachem, Professional Winner, Architecture Creator of the Year

You can see every winner in the Official Vision Awards Winners’ Gallery. Along with publication in the Visions of Architecture anthology, each winning entrant will also receive:
  • Inclusion in the Official Winners’ Gallery, Winners’ Announcement and custom coverage on Architizer.com, shared with hundreds of thousands of readers via our newsletter.
  • Digital Winners’ Certificate, badges and other custom assets to promote and celebrate your achievement on your website, emails and social channels.
  • Social Media Spotlight alongside other prestigious Vision Awards Winners, including publication on Architizer’s Facebook (1.8M followers), Twitter (1.2M) and Instagram (1.5M).
  • Exclusive access to an influential network of creative collaborators. Winners and Commended Entrants will gain access to an invite-only Vision Awards LinkedIn Group, to be launched at the conclusion of the inaugural program.

In addition to the amazing photographs, visualizations, drawings and models, there are also multiple winners in the Videography categories, which will be celebrated during our online Architecture Film Festival – stay tuned for more details coming soon!

Congratulations to every Winner of this year’s Vision Awards — great architectural representation is the lifeblood of Architizer, and we are profoundly grateful for your creativity and innovation.


Launching Soon: The 12th Annual A+Awards

Don’t forget — the 12th Annual A+Awards opens for entries this fall! If you are part of an architecture firm with work that deserves a global spotlight, make sure to sign up for the A+Awards Newsletter to ensure you are one of the first to receive key program updates, as well gaining access to insider submission tips from our editorial team.

Top image: “Bloom – Film Still” by Jack London Freedman, Kaustubh Kulkarni, and Fang Shu, Student Winner, Best Artistic Visualization

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