"This book highlights the creative, imaginative and avant-garde process of designing high rise buildings. Skyscrapers are often considered as cities within a city, and this book investigates - in seven stages - the contemporary typologies of high-rise buildings. The importance of high-rise buildings lies in their link with the urban landscape, the sustainability agenda, emerging technologies, and the need to be energy efficient, and this book - which is packed with colour photographs and illustrations - shows how the high-rise building has a place in the 21st century."