The best buildings in the world - in your pocket
Santiago Calatrava, IM Pei and Zaha Hadid all feature in Atlas travel edition
1 / 11 Santiago Calatrava, Liège Guillemins TGV Station, Liège, Belgium
2 / 11 Souto Moura - Arquitectos, Paula Rego Museum, Casais, Portugal
3 / 11 I. M. Pei, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
4 / 11 Eisenman Architects, Galicia City of Culture, Santiago de Compestela, Spain
5 / 11 Zaha Hadid Architects, Guangshou Opera House, Guangzhou, China
6 / 11 Woods Bagot & NH Architecture, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia
7 / 11 Li Xiaodong Atelier, Bridge School, Fuijan, China
8 / 11 Chaki Arai, Ofunati Civic Cultural Centre and Library, Ofunato, Japan
9 / 11 Amateur Architecture Studio, Ningbo Historic Museum, Zhejiang, China
10 / 11 Adamo-Faiden, Chalú-House, Buenos Aires, Argentina
11 / 11 Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects, Za-Koenji Public Theatre, Tokyo, Japan
All the big dogs of contemporary architecture are brought together in the new travel editon of the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture, which reduces the best, biggest and most outlandish structures of the last decade to fit in the palm of your hand.
The original Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture is huge, weighty and monumental, not unlike the buildings it includes - now you can take all that knowledge with you on your travels without exceeding budget airlines' pesky baggage limits.
Despite being a fraction of the size, the new travel version contains over 50 of the best new builds which have sprung up in the years since the original tome was published in 2008. Click on the gallery to get a taster of some of them, including I.M Pei’s cubist Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar, Eisenman Architects’ Galicia City of Culture in Spain and the amazing Bridge School in China which sits above a creek joining the two sides of the village Xiashi and has walls made only of thin timber slats. Click here to order online.
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