Dang. We keep forgetting things in our "what comes in droves at the end of the year" list (which, itself, is becoming an endless list). How could we forget the "things to buy for people who like design and stuff"? That said, we present you with one of the first, and possibly best, given the reputable source: The Times' best architecture books to buy those you love who love cool buildings. It's a veritable cornucopia of big, heavy, expensive books, surely filled from cover to cover with loads of artsy photos, fancy quotes that border on the spiritual and beg you to accept them as nothing short of brilliant and loads of specific construction details you probably won't understand. All three would fit perfectly alongside all the millions of other ones we currently have proudly displayed on our collective shelves. Not that we're asking you to buy any for us. Certainly not! We're just letting you know about this one specifically because we thought you might enjoy it. Yep, that's all we're doing. Really! What are you looking at us like that for?

The blockbuster of the year is Calatrava: Complete Works 1979-2007 by Philip Jodidio (Taschen 79.99), a 500-page folio volume with photographs of masterpieces such as the Lyon Airport TGV station, the Valencia Planetarium and the Athens stadium. Most tantalising is the unbuilt bridge over Poole Harbour which would have run Foster's Millau Viaduct a close second. As both architect and engineer, Calatrava is uniquely qualified to build adventurous, athletic structures in a strongly personal style. His latest vision is for a slender 160- storey tower on Chicago's lake shore to contain some 1,300 apartments.