RIBA Bookshops Architecture Now! 4

Architecture Now! 3 was the winner of the prestigious Saint-Etienne Prize for the Best Architecture and Design Book of 2004. Volume 4 proves that it just keeps getting better, with new names from all over the world and the most exciting and unique buildings and designs. As always, easy-to-navigate illustrated A-Z entries include current and recent projects, biographies, contact information, and website addresses. Here are just a few of the projects that are featured in the new book: • A shelter for the needy made out of sandbags
• "Nomadic Museum" made by Shigeru Ban out of shipping containers
• A tree house in Germany
• Extraordinary museums that will never be built in Lausanne and Guadalajara
• New Museums that have been built by Gehry, Mansilla and Tuñón, or Richard Meier
• BMW Central Building in Leipzig by Zaha Hadid
• Allianz Arena by Herzog & de Meuron
• Wedding Chapel in Japan
• Design hotels in Berlin and Saõ Paulo or Cerro Paranal, Chile
• Library in Seattle by Rem Koolhaas/OMA
• Houses in Mexico City, Saõ Paulo, Corsica, Hiroshima, or Great Mackerel Beach, Australia
• Spoon des Neiges by Patrick Jouin
• A tower that will grow like a tree in New York
• Fab architects like David Adjaye, Caramel, Graftlab, Jakob +MacFarlane, Asymptote or Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis
• Artists who take on architectural space like Frank Stella or Bill Viola, or architects who are interested in art like Peter Eisenman
• The E-House, architecture that is greener than green
• From the Minimal (David Chipperfield and John Pawson) to the decidedly exotic (Longitude 131, Uluru-Kata National Park, Northern Territory, Australia)