Award-Winning Architecture Photos from the 2025 Chromatic Awards That Redefine Beauty

1st Place Winner: “Petit Lighthouse” by Deryk Baumgärtner, Germany

Architecture photography has evolved into an exploration of atmosphere and emotion, and the 2025 Chromatic Awards winners embody that shift.

This year’s top images move far beyond structural precision, capturing mood, weather, memory, and the quiet drama of light interacting with concrete. Deryk Baumgärtner’s first‑place Petit Lighthouse delivers cinematic tension, with fog, rain, and a piercing beam of light transforming Brittany’s coastline into something haunting and unforgettable. Gary Ng’s second‑place Concrete Memento turns a moment inside Kyoto’s Uji Station into a meditative study of sunlight, brutalism, and human presence. Rounding out the top three, Chaussee’s Monument Valley uses a gift shop window reflection to merge ancient landscape with modern commerce, creating a layered visual metaphor about photography’s power to reveal and obscure at once.

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2nd Place Winner: “Concrete Memento” by Gary Ng, Hong Kong

3rd Place Winner: “Monument Valley” by l. chaussee, United States

“Beach Houses” by Weber Guenther, Germany

“Blue, White and Red” by Zili Zhang, United States

“Chroma Abyss” by Jiyau Xuan, China

“Ensemble Chauderon” by Paulo dos Santos Sousa, Portugal

“Forest of Impermanence” by Gary Ng, Hong Kong

“House on the Hill” by André Vroon, New Zealand

“Just Relax” by Yevhen Kostiuk, Ukraine

“Monte Rosa Hut” by Paulo dos Santos Sousa, Portugal

“Music Pop Center” by Didi Hsu, Taiwan

“No Lifeguard” by Seth Mayer, United States

“Pale Composition” by Haruka Suzuki, Japan

“Punch a hole in the sky” by Yuan Ji, China

“Rainbow” by Ru Fang Dong, Taiwan

“Serres Royale” by Bernhard Hartmann, Germany

“Space-time travel” by Ann Banasiak, Poland

“Sunny Side-Up” by Gary Ng, Hong Kong

“The Timmelsjoch Experience” by Bernhard Hartmann, Germany

“The Timmelsjoch Experience Passmuseum” by Bernhard Hartmann, Germany

“Vertigo towers” by Floriana Avellino, Italy

“Wat Arunratchawararam” by Didi Hsu, Taiwan