Brick houses with pitched roofs can often be seen in suburban streets in nearly every day in the western world. With tiled roofs and rectilinear walls, they are indistinguishable from their neighbours and reproduced en mass.

In contrast, this book looks at projects that use a variety of materials, from concrete to steel. The idea is to look at these buildings through the eyes of the architects and allow them to explain their vision... The private and public clients of the projects featured in this book, look to architecture as a way of exciting the senses rather than simply an investment. These buildings could have been built ten years ago or as recently as yesterday. Each design offers something completely new.

Content - Introduction, A BEACON, A NEW MODEL, A SUSTAINABLE DESIGN, A VIEWING PLATFORM, AMBIGUOUS DESIGN, BACHELOR PAD, BLOCK HOUSE, CENTRED ON A FLAME, CONCRETE, CULTIVARS, DUNE HOUSE, FOLDED HOUSE, GLASS LANTERN, GREAT WHALE, LOW SLUNG, LUMINOUS DESIGN, OP ART, PROTECTIVE SHELL, REFINED TIN SHED, SMOOTH LINES, TWO PARTS HOUSE, URBAN FORTRESS, WINTER COCOON, WRAP HOUSE, Index, Acknowledgments