Architecture nominee

The Brønshøj Water Tower, designed by Ib Lunding who worked as project architect under City Architect Poul Holsøe, was constructed in 1928 in the functionalist style and is a local landmark of Copenaghen, UNESCO World Capital of Architecture 2023-2025.
With its inside concrete construction composed of pillars placed in circles in several layers, the building is protected along with 10 other water towers in Denmark. Although the tower is now out of service, it represents a simple principle that is still being used: the elevation of a confined body of water high above the water pipes which distribute the water throughout the surrounding community, ensures that hydrostatic pressure, driven by gravity, makes the water run through the system. This principle is clearly legible in the architecture of the water tower: the water tank suspended by a series of robust columns. The cylindrical space, ideal for storing a liquid, is clearly articulated in the functionalist architecture. Today, the unique space is used for concerts and cultural activities, echoing the spaces in the etchings Imaginary Prisons of the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

Francesca Pompei, graduated with honour in Philosophy, is a photographer focused on arts and architectural images, member of the board of National Association of Professional Photographers-TAU Visual from 2014 to 2020, artist of the Giornata del Contemporaneo- Italian Contemporary Art 2021 and included among the Exceptional Women In Architecture Photography.
Her work is in the permanent collection of the Fondazione Dario Mellone in Milan and it is online on LensCulture, blink, Dodho, Fondo Malerba per la Fotografia, L’Oeil de la photographie, Saatchi Art, Aesthetica Magazine, All About Photo, OpenEye, Glamour Affair, Artribune, Il Giornale dell’Architettura, Exibart, Marika Magazine, Iconic Artist Magazine, Aesthetics of Photography, Perimetro, Artdoc Photography Magazine, Better Photography, Designboom, CNN Arabic, The Times and The Guardian. Among the artists selected to celebrate Italy’s Republic Day 2020 and 2021, she is winner of prestigious competitions such as The Art of Building and the Architecture MasterPrize 2022 and 2023. Her work is included in the Annuario d'Arte Italiana 2022 promoted by Quadriennale di Roma and published by Treccani. She is a member of PhotoVogue and she is Photography Tutor and Photography Subject Expert at the faculty of Architecture of Sapienza University in Rome.