Competition

At the end of a stellar year for photography contests we have hand-picked a selection of our favorite shots from the past 12 months. This best-of-the-best gallery includes stylish drone shots, psychedelic macro photography and mind-bending landscapes.

A beautiful shot of a lone farmhouse facing a looming thunderstorm has taken the top prize in this year’s 360 Degree Photo Awards. The small photo contest punches above its weight with a spectacular selection of impressive images.

Gleaming high-rises and luxury homes are all well and good, but sublime architecture usually begins with a drawing. The World Architecture Festival aims to celebrate both digital and pencil and paper creativity with its Architecture Drawing Prize.

From a lioness racing after her prey, to a pack of wild dogs herding a bear, this year's Nature inFocus Photography Contest delivers a spectacular assortment of wonderful wildlife imagery celebrating the best of the nature photography in 2021.

Encompassing thousands of years of human history the stunning 2021 Historic Photographer of the Year awards span everything from an ancient Greek temple to the only structure still standing from the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

A new photo contest has been founded aiming to celebrate images with as little digital editing as possible. The winners of this inaugural contest highlight the beauty of the natural world without excessive post-processing techniques getting in the way.

A wearable sensor for eye pressure sensing, a plastic scanner and new treatment solution for stab wounds have triumphed as global winners of the 2021 James Dyson Award, impressing judges as clever concepts designed to solve real-world problems.

The largest XPrize competition ever conducted has given out its first prize money, with 23 student teams receiving cash injections to further technologies that take aim at the problem of mounting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The winners of the 2021 Architecture MasterPrize have been announced. The award highlights some superb projects, including a luxurious home buried into a Greek hillside and a mixed-use building covered in over 30,000 hedges.

From skydiving over the pyramids of Egypt to having fun at the North Pole, this year’s Siena International Photo Awards spans all corners of the globe. Here is a handpicked selection of the highlights from this year’s spectacular crop of winners.

RIBA has unveiled its pick of this year's best new British homes. Consisting of 20 impressive projects, the 2021 House of the Year includes a water tower turned into a home, an accessible cottage remodel, and a skinny house squeezed into an alleyway.

For over half a century the Wildlife Photographer of the Year has spectacularly celebrated the natural world. This year’s crop of winners is no exception, from Svalbard reindeer going head to head to a frightening cluster of wandering spiders.