This fascinating sourcebook presents the most remarkable, beautiful, and innovative building facades in contemporary architecture. A building's facade sets the aesthetic tone for its entire design while serving a variety of functions, from regulating light and protecting against the elements to providing insulation for temperature and sound. This absorbing book details hundreds of examples of interesting and progressive facades from around the world. Presented in colourful double-page spreads, each facade is photographed from different angles and includes engaging texts that describe their significance. Readers can learn how traditional mashrabiyas in Abu Dhabi are being engineered to respond to light and to regulate heat, how a hospital in Mexico City has been constructed with "smog-eating" tiles, and how a "bio-adaptive" facade in Germany uses algae to generate energy and provide shade. Informative and accessible, this compendium is a highly useful resource for architects, engineers, and designers. AUTHORS: Oscar Riera Ojeda is an editor and designer based in the United States, China, and Argentina. He has designed, edited, and published more than 200 architecture, design, and photography books and is the founder of Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers. Byron Hawes is a New York and Toronto-based writer and designer. He is the founder and Editor of the underground architecture and design magazine The Apres Garde, co-founder of architecture firm I-V, and Editor at Hypebeast and Flofferz. SELLING POINTS: . Each facade featured in this book includes close-up photography showing details and photography from further away to show how the facade relates to the rest of the building. . The book includes an elaborate index that allows readers to find facades based on multiple categories. . In addition to photographs, each spread contains additional information including the name of the building, its location, the architects/engineers, when it was built, and the materials used, alongside a 100 to 150-word text describing what is interesting, innovative, or special about each one. . This book could be used by both professionals in the field and fans of architecture looking for inspiration. 400 colour images