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Skyscraper for the XXI Century

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This is one of the best books about contemporary and innovative architecture I have seen this year. It is full of great projects that deal with the skyscraper as both a problem and a solution to different cities around the globe. It is not just about super-tall buildings but about new technologies and its application in the design and construction of the skyscraper for the future generations. Many of the projects are really amazing both in a formal and a programmatic way. I really recommend this book to anyone who is interested in tall buildings, computer-aided design, and high-end design. I am really enjoying it!!

This book being a compilation of competition entries, is very interesting and has a number of innovative designs for high rise buildings. However, the book itself was a bit of a disappointment for me. Seeing the competition web site before i purchased this book, i thought i was gonna end up with a huge book with 2-300 pages with high quality images of the competition material. But what i got in the end is a small book, having little more than what the web site already showed. Very little info, or description of the entries and relatively small diagrams that are in some cases hard to read.
Saying all this, i would have bought it anyway, if i knew all that. I'm very interested in the competition and in the ideas displayed in the book...