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Hailed by friend and frequent collaborator Rem Koolhaas as having almost single-handedly shifted the ground in engineering - and ena bled architecture to be imagined differently, Cecil Balmond has achieved the kind of rock-star status and notoriety that is most oft en associated with architects. His practice fuses aesthetic form with innovative systems of organization, making the impossible poss ible and creating new typologies. This newest book outlines more than a dozen international projects: bridges, towers, pavilions, .. .