Silver in Architecture/Industrial / 2026 / Architecture / Industrial

• Prize
  Silver in Architecture/Industrial
• Photographer
  Sampo, Japan
• Date of Photograph
  January 12, 2025

Shibuya Station is currently undergoing a massive, historic redevelopment. In the midst of dismantling an old department store, an extraordinary, skeletal structure was briefly exposed to the world. While thousands of commuters pass by daily, oblivious to the transformation, this colossal cycle of destruction and creation progresses silently. My focus centers on capturing this ephemeral architectural beauty—a structural sublime that no architect ever designed or intended, born purely from the liminal space between what was and what will be.