Architecture nominee

Architectural fragments from the Main hall of Polin Museum in Warsaw
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a museum on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto that contains a permanent narrative exhibition presenting a history of over 1000 years of Polish Jews from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust and the post-war period.
The Main hall, made up of two halves, has undulating walls that take the shape of a gorge, letting in light through the cavernous architecture, light that symbolizes the triumph of life.
The bridge connecting the two halves of the building symbolizes the connection between past and present, the building itself being a symbol that reflected the idea of a "museum of life".

Elena Raceala is a semi-professional Romanian photographer and currently works as nurse at the County and Emergency Clinical Hospital Constanta.
She discovered her passion for photography in 2013 during a trip to Naples and since that moment, part of her, lives through photography. She loves to travel and document every place she passes through.
Along the way, Elena Raceala has sought her own style, trying to express her emotions and artistic vision through works with surrealist or poetic inclinations.
Part of her wants to express herself, to conquer more of what is still in the power of nothingness, and the other part to collect what is already represented.
Representative for her are black and white works in which photographs of the street or everyday life are transformed, creatively using light and shadows, spaces, and lines, into creations with an own surrealist vision.
She has won awards and mentions in some of the best-known international photography competitions. Over the years she has had numerous group exhibitions, and two solo exhibitions, in Constanta and Bucharest, and her photographs have been selected in various photo albums on prestigious photography websites. Recently, she has had two editorial appearances in "Photography in Visual Culture" and