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This lavish book tells the dramatic story behind the building of the UN Headquarters, never before related as revealingly as it is here. The authors bring us on an exclusive tour around the entire complex through 150 specially commissioned photographs. The idea for locating the United Nations Headquarters in an evil-smelling slaughterhouse district sprang from an astute real estate broker; the finance came from the Rockefeller family; and the architecture from Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer and Sven Markelius, among others. In a few months of intense creativity the team conjured up a symbol for peace in the form of a set of ultramodern buildings that still inspire hope for a better future. This large-format book of 244 pages is probably the most exquisite book on the architecture of the UN Headquarters ever published

The architecture photographer Åke E:son Lindman is one of Sweden's most internationally renowned photographers. The book "Pure architecture" presents his expressive depictions of international iconic architecture, including step pyramids and contemporary architecture from Jean Nouvel. Accompanied by text by Julia Tedroff and Niclas Östlind.

Kalmar Cathedral was reconsecrated Whit Sunday 2011, following a thoroughgoing conservation. The measures taken have the effect of securing and enhancing the qualities of this magnificent cathedral, by international standards the most interesting in Sweden.

The Timber Prize is a prize of honour endowed by the Swedish Forest Industries Federation. It is a prize for good Swedish wooden architecture reflecting our times" (Timber Prize Statutes, Article 1). The Timber Prize was first awarded in 1967 and since 1988 has been presented at four-yearly intervals. It was in 1988 that the tradition was inaugurated of not just selecting a winner but nominating a group of the most distinguished entries and presenting them in book form. This is the seventh book in the series. The books containing the nominated entries have achieved widespread currency and made outstanding Swedish wooden architecture widely known and studied. The books on the Timber Prize describe a development of wooden architecture which, while following on from a tradition of building with wood, renews wooden architecture in a process of interaction with contemporary trends.