From the Tower of Babel to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, from European cathedrals to the Twin Towers and the currently scandalous Freedom Tower, highrises have always been a symbol of mankind's cultural aspirations and technological achievements. The biennial International Highrise Award specifies that an ideal contemporary tower should make exceptional use of aesthetics, design and technology, and show cost-effectiveness, sustainability and integration into town planning. This album of the 2006 contenders honors foremost the winners, Jean Nouvel and Fermin Vasquez, who designed the Torre Agbar...

The German Architecture Yearbook , published by the German Architecture Museum (DAM) in Frankfurt am Main, has been documenting current building activity in Germany for almost 40 years. In reviews by well-known authors, the yearbook presents the shortlist of 23 buildings from Germany and three examples from abroad, which a jury determined for the DAM Prize for Architecture in Germany 2023 . Curators of the museum as well as renowned architects and architecture critics viewed a field of around 100 nominations for the year. In addition to the special tribute to the winner of the DAM Prize, the...