Wonders of the World

Man has never stopped to feel the need to demonstrate his creativity and genius, building throughout the world structures which seem of having become higher and higher, bigger and bigger through the ages. Following a detailed chronological order, this book goes from the Pyramids of Giza to the Parthenon in Athens, from the Great Chinese Wall to the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, from the Opera House in Sydney to the Hotel Burj-Al-Arab in Dubai.Wonderful photographs illustrate these "wonders", still more impressive thanks to a new format in which this volume is published: a book of great dimensions, studied to show off the images of the imposing buildings at their best.Pictures are accompanied by an extremely graphic and modern layout, that works as the perfect frame for the historical texts written by well know experts in art and architecture.