Includes bibliographical references and index.

Arts and entertainment : Arabian performance venue / Aedas ; Birnbeck Island / Matteo Cainer at Fletcher Priest Architects ; Cuidad del Motor / UN Studio ; Crystal Palace / Wilkinson Eyre Architects ; Musik Theater / Odile Decq Benoit Cornette Architectes Urbanistes ; National Portrait Gallery / Sean Godsell Architects ; New Orleans National Jazz Center and Park / Morphosis ; Performing arts centre / Ateliers Jean Nouvel ; Qintai Art and Cultural Centre / Arup Associates ; Sarajevo National Concert Hall / Urban Future Organization / Senscity Paradise Universe / Behnisch Architekten ; Sherwood Forest Visitors' Centre / Make ; Stonehenge Visitors' Centre / Denton Corker Marshall ; Taichung Metropolitan Opera House / Zaha Hadid Architects -- Accommodation : Battersea West Hotel / Arup Associates ; Bluewater / Taylor Smyth Architects ; Doha Villa / Ushida Findley ; Factory 798 / Bernard Tschumi Architects ; Freight shop conversion / Ivan Kroupa Architects ; Hotel Pushkin / Jan Störmer Partners ; House in the Andes / Chetwoods Architects ; Maison d'Algérie / Estudio Carme Pinós ; Moscow avant garde / Erick van Egeraat Architects ; Pizota Hotel / Estudio Carme Pinós ; Prince Mansour Centre / Friis & Moltke ; Sentosa Island / Tange Associates / Southern Sudan Palace / Jan Störmer Partners Urban oasis / UN Studio ; W Hotel / Ateliers Jean Nouvel -- Master plans : Aktau City expansion / Koetter Kim & Associates ; Battersea Power Station / Arup AGU ; Daejeon Urban Renaissance / Moxon Architects ; Heart of the Forest / Edward Cullinan Architects ; Murjan City / Henning Larsen Architects ; New York 2012 Olympic Village / Zaha Hadid Architects ; Sewoon District urban redevelopment / Koetter Kim & Associates ; Shenzhen Cultural Centre / LAB Architecture Studio ; West Kowloon Cultural Centre / Aedas and Richard Rogers Partnership ; West Kowloon Culture Park / Moshe Safdie & Associates --

Museums : Canadian Museum for Human Rights / Antoine Predock ; Civilization Museum of Europe and the Mediterranean / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects ; Estonian National Museum / Gianni Botsford Architects ; Eyebeam Museum of Art and Technology / Diller Scofidio + Renfro ; Guggenheim Museum / Asymptote ; Guggenheim Museum / Ateliers Jean Nouvel ; Liaunig Collection Museum / Odile Decq Benoit Cornette Architectes Urbanistes ; Moesgaard Museum / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects ; Museum of Contemporary Art and a Moving Image Centre / Sauerbruch Hutton ; Museum of Contemporary Art Warsaw / White Arkitekter ; Sheikh Zayed national Museum / Shigeru Ban Architects ; Victoria & Albert Museum extension / Studio Daniel Libeskind ; World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum / Antoine Predock -- Bridges and towers : Allegro Altura Tower / Tange Associates ; Crow Creek Bridge / Bing Thom Architect ; Dubai Tower / Grimshaw ; Footbridge over the Seine / Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes ; Glasgow footbridge / Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands ; Hyperbuilding / Office for Metropolitan Architecture ; Manhal Oasis / ONL ; Shanghai Center / RTKL ; Shanghai Kiss / Alsop ; Tensegrity Bridge / Wilkinson Eyre Architects ; The Edge / Denton Corker Marshall ; The Legs / Aedas ; Tour M / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ; World Cultural Center / Rafael Viñoly Architects with Frederic Schwartz, Shigeru Ban and Ken Smith ; World Trade Center / Foster & Partners / World Trade Center Tower I . Foreign Office Architects --

Culture and education : Architecture Foundation / Zaha Hadid Architects ; Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design / Matteo Cainer at Fletcher Priest Architects ; Bicentenary Cultural Centre / Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg ; Brown University Campus / Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates ; Centre for Music, Art and Design, University of Manitoba / Patkau Architects ; Changsha Culture Park / MAD ; Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration / Moshe Safdie & Associates ; Dura Exemplar School / dRMM ; Earth Centre EDEN / Kohn Pedersen Fox ; European Solidarity Centre / Pentagram Design ; Grand Mosque of Algiers / Architecture Studio ; Groninger Forum / Erick van Egeraat Architects ; House of Human Rights Cultural Centre / Wilkinson eyre Archtiects ; Joseph Regenstein Library addition, University of Chicago / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ; Konstantinovsky Congress Centre / Erick van Egeraat Architects ; Learning Centre, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne / Mecanoo ; Rome Congress Centre / Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners ; Royal College of Art Battersea Campus / Feiden Clegg Bradley ; School of Design / UN Studio ; Würth Culture and Congress Centre / J. Mayer H. Architects -- Work and travel : Al Rajhi Bank headquarters / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ; BBC White City Music Centre / Foreign Office Architects ; BMW Event and Delivery Centre / Sauerbruch Hutton ; Collins Place / Woods Bagot ; Elizabeth House / Make ; Fourth Grace / Alsop ; Gazheadquartersrters / Studio Daniel Libeskind ; Halley VI Research Station / Make ; Nanjing South Rail Station / Kohn Pederson Fox ; Sustainable service station / Moxon Architects ; Tantalus Winery / Bing Thom Architects.

"100 of the best project proposed since the turn of the millennium by the world's greatest architects" - back cover.

Presents some of the most creative works from architects around the world that never came to fruition.