Bronze in Architecture/Historic / 2025 / Architecture / Historic

• Prize
  Bronze in Architecture/Historic
• Photographer
  Elwin van der Hoofd, Germany

Omani architecture does not aim for the heights nor the spectacle, but it walks its own, quieter path. A path that embraces restraint, balance and timeless elegance. This photograph shows the royal opera house in Muscat, a building that embodies precisely this path in Oman architecture.
The beauty of this path does not come from grandeur but from stillness, calmness and tradition that Oman tries to preserve.