Profiling over seventy of the world"s most incredible engineered structures, built between 1900 and the present day, Great Modern Structures is an awe-inspiring selection of man-made wonders of the modern age. Many of those featured are record breakers within their respective categories - Height, Span, Volume, Surface and Power - while others have more modest but equally valid reasons for inclusion, such as sheer inventiveness, complexity and beauty. Featuring the work of many major architects and engineers, including such luminaries as Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Antoni Gaudi, Zaha Hadid, Renzo Plano, Richard Rogers, Eera Saarinen, Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright. Great Modern Structures is an authoritative but accessible guide to the feats of engineering that have come to represent the modern world.