Asymptote Architecture

Asymptote Architecture is a world -working American architectural firm; It was founded in 1989 by Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture and is headquartered in New York City. The office is considered a pioneer in the field of visionary architectural theory and especially the computer-generated, virtual architecture.

Buildings and Projects

2010 works asymptote on a 100,000 m² urban design in the Italian city of Bergamo and the World Business Center Solomon Tower in Busan, South Korea, which will include at a height of 560 m the highest in Asia. In addition, a large hotel and theater complex for the Global City Center in Penang Malaysia in work.

Shortly before the completion of the year 2010 was a luxury apartment complex in the West Village in New York City.

Constructed Buildings of asymptote are the Hydra Pier Pavilion in the North Holland Haarlemmermeer from 2002, a number of flagship stores for Carlos Miele and Alessi in New York City and the Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi ( 2009).

In 1992, Anne Couture and Hani Rashid designed a hypothetical building for Times Square on behalf of the New York Times. Followed in 2000, a virtual museum of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In the same year Hani Rashid represented the United States at the VII Architecture Biennale in Venice, and in 2004 developed Rashid and Couture exhibition design for the Ninth International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. Asymptotes work has been exhibited in Germany, at Documenta 11 in Kassel and at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt.

Awards

2004 received Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture in the art and for the extraordinary ability, art and architecture to merge conceptually.

Completed projects

Alessi Flagship Store

HydraPier Pavilion, Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands

New York Stock, Trading Floor