EAN 9781579129422

At a stunning 18 inches tall and celebrating all of today's most significant superstructures, this all-new edition of "Skyscrapers "features 15 exciting new buildings and a brand-new interview with Adrian Smith, the world's foremost architect of supertall buildings. Retaining all of the qualities that made it a major bestseller-informative commentary, historic facts and architectural information, and glorious photography-this groundbreaking, shelf-scraping international bestseller is a "Skyscrapers" for the new millennium. Unique in scale and design, the book has been expanded to 160 pages and features more than 60 buildings by such well-known architects as Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Philip Johnson, Morphosis, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano, Cesar Pelli, and Frank Lloyd Wright.