Customer Reviews

Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture

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A magnificent book, which is indeed current to within the last year, including buildings such as `The birds nest' used in the Chinese Olympics and Toronto's ROM, but not their recently updated AGO.

The buildings are described well in the text along with Architectural designs and copious images of the building from internal and external sources.

The layout is done well by splitting into continents and then countries and maps to should proximity. Which if one is travelling to an area, makes it easy to go and explore some of the buildings in the book.

Phaidon consistently publishes well put together books and this keeps up the trend. Like the Phaidon Design Classics set, this book comes in an interesting `carry case', as it is quite heavy !

As an architect and a professional in the industry, this is an invaluable asset, a marvelous compilation with an international flavour. Only negative comment is that the compilation lacked the "works" of some of the great contemporary "icons" of the global architectrural profession, these may be in another volume???. Very happy with the contents and can be highly recomended, awaiting more volumes in the series.

The gift card I requested was never included and the green colour special plastic cover which the book was enclosed in was badly damaged and was a big disapointment, perhaps a more sturdy material should be used, specially when being shipped internationally. Sad to see the condition in which it was recived!

For those interested in architecture, professional and amateur alike, this is one great book. Beng able to see all the newest and enticing examples of contemporary architecture, to observe and appreciate the touch of technology reflected in great pieces of architectural masterpieces in one huge collection, is nothing sort of amazing. Thanks Phaidon.

This is an amazing book chock full of projects that I have never seen before. It is organised intelligently and usually provides good drawings and pictures of each project.

I love this book. Good collection of buildings from around the world.
Although the plans aren't overly detailed, the images in this book are stunning. My fav book... :-)

A great book....something every architect or anyone interested in contemporary architecture should have in
their library.

Although the quality of the information inside is professionally edited and very useful, only the paper quality seems weaker than the previous atlas (the phaidon atlas of contemporary architecture)

This book weighs a ton and has a similar price tag, however, it is worth the money and arm strain. Wonderful photos, globally comprehensive and well organized. If you love cities and architecture, this book is a must!

My wife recently ordered this fantastic book as a birthday gift. And yes the book itself is awesome, no doubt about it. She ordered it on Amazon as it is considerably cheaper, but was hesitant as she still likes to view items before she buys them - sadly she was all too right. To cut a long story short we are in the process of returning the second damaged Atlas to Amazon.

The state the Atlas' were received it (for a book of this price) was entirely unacceptable. The box it comes in (whilst admittedly somewhat flimsy) has been either cracked or bent both times. The Atlas', in all honestly, look like ex display copies that they're trying to palm off on you in the hope you cannot be bothered to return them; corners bent, pages torn, whole sections of the book pushed in and dented. This is a coffee table book and somewhat of an investment in my eyes at least.

If someone from Amazon actually reads this...if a book is returned due to damage why oh why wouldn't you check the second one you sent out wasn't in a similar or worse condition!!

We'll return one last time and see if the third one is in any better condition...