No other construction material can match steel's suitability for bridging long spans and
realising unusual building geometries. Slender. High. Long - Steel and Steel-Composite
Structures documents outstanding high-rise buildings and engineering structures in steel. This
includes not only bridges sports facilities factories and exhibition halls but also
administration and cultural buildings such as the Oodi Central Library in Helsinki the Adidas
Arena in Herzogenaurach and the large-scale accessible sculpture The Vessel in New York. In
extensive text and expressive drawings the engineers involved in their design explain the
concepts of the steel and steel-composite structures and the solutions they found for realising
them.
