FIFTY prize specimens of towering buildings in their natural habitat, the city, appear in Skyscrapers (Prestel, £22.99/$35), edited by Andres Lepik. Stunning images, like the one of Chicago’s Lake Point Tower (below), are reason enough to buy this book. What’s more, each building comes with a summary of its history, context and influence. The problems of skyscrapers are not assessed – their shadows move like anti-spotlights across their neighbourhoods. This is a celebratory book, one for futurist dreamers.
Go to the past for another present: half-drowned in the ground mist that smears away the modern signage, Rome’s classical landscape haunts the…
