On the Sony World Pictures Awards 2025, structure shines

The Sony World Pictures Awards 2025 winners have simply been introduced, crowning Canadian photographer Ulana Switucha as their total winner within the Structure & Design class – honoured alongside two extra finalists.

Utilizing her lens, Switucha captured The Tokyo Bathroom Venture – the Japanese capital’s scheme that spans its Shibuya ward and began as an initiative launched by the town and the Japan Basis. Over time, the undertaking noticed the revamp of round 17 public amenities by key design and structure creatives, such because the Tokyo Bathroom Venture by Marc Newson.

Ulana Switucha, Canada, Winner, Skilled competitors, Structure & Design, Sony World Pictures Awards 2025 – 3

(Picture credit score: Ulana Switucha)

‘The distinctive buildings are as a lot artistic endeavors as they’re a public comfort. These pictures are half of a bigger physique of labor documenting the architectural aesthetics of those buildings of their city surroundings,’ Switucha writes in a press release.

© Ulana Switucha, Canada, Winner, Professional competition, Architecture & Design, Sony World Photography Awards 2025 - 3

Sony World Pictures Awards 2025: 2nd and third place finalists

Extra design-focused accolades embody the work of Brazilian Andre Tezza, whose undertaking Twilight in San Ignacio scooped the class’s second place. The collection discusses the vernacular structure of Belize, and specifically how the residential structure there interacts with the native, tropical local weather.

‘On the finish of the day, the streets change into silent and the buildings, with their easy and purposeful model, dominate the scene,’ Tezza explains.

Andre Tezza, Brazil, 2nd Place, Skilled competitors, Structure & Design, Sony World Pictures Awards 2025

(Picture credit score: Andre Tezza)

In the meantime, the UK’s Owen Davies produced LIGHT/MASS, which received third place finalist for a undertaking reflecting on the constructed surroundings in america. Davies’ imagery carves out fascinating geometries and highly effective visible city compositions that mix daring brutalist structure and modernist structure moments throughout the nation.

The organisers be aware of Davies’ work: ‘He turned fascinated with the strange-looking buildings he would come upon, looming abruptly when turning a nook. They felt like distinctly otherworldly buildings, alien to the encircling structure and unobserved by passersby. Davies started in search of them out, intentionally on the lookout for buildings designed by architects and planners who envisaged a vibrant utopian future for these residing in America’s giant cities.’

Owen Davies, United Kingdom, third Place, Skilled competitors, Structure & Design, Sony World Pictures Awards 2025

(Picture credit score: Owen Davies)