| Asymptote Architecture | |
|---|---|
| Practice information | |
| Key architects | Lise Anne Couture + Hani Rashid |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Location | New York City |
| Significant works and honors | |
| Buildings | The Yas Hotel, Abu Dhabi, UAE HydraPier Pavilion 166 Perry Street, New York, NY World Business Center Busan |
Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture, founders and principals of Asymptote Architecture, are leading architectural practitioners of their generation whose innovative work and academic contributions have received international acclaim. Since Asymptote’s founding in 1989, the practice has been at the forefront of technological innovation in the fields of architecture and design. Asymptote has earned recognition for important built projects in Europe the UAE and the US as well as praise and awards for visionary building designs, master planning, art installations, exhibition and product design, and ground breaking digital spatial environments.
Overview
editAsymptote is currently working on a broad range of commissions in the United States, Europe and Asia including a 100,000-square-meter master plan in Bergamo, Italy; the World Business Center Solomon Tower in Busan, South Korea.[1] [2][3] , a skyscraper that will be among the tallest buildings in Asia at 560m. Also in progress are the Penang Global City Center (PGCC), a one-million-square-meter cultural, hotel and performing arts complex in Penang, Malaysia[4][5]; the Strata Tower, an innovative, forty-story, luxury residential tower in Abu Dhabi, UAE; and two contemporary art pavilions commissioned by The Guggenheim Foundation for the Cultural District of Saadiyat Island, also in Abu Dhabi. Other recent competition proposals from Asymptote include a large-scale master plan and landmark tower design for the Yongsan International Business District in Seoul, South Korea; the winning entry for an iconic, forty-story corporate headquarters in Tbilisi, Georgia; a design for the Dubai International Financial Center, a 146-story building that punctuates that city’s skyline; an exhibition and music hall in Vitoria, Spain; and a dramatic design for a new Guggenheim Museum in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Recenty completed projects by Asymptote include Yas Marina Hotel.[6], a luxury hotel and one of the main architectural features of the new Yas Marina development and accompanying Formula 1 raceway circuit in Abu Dhabi, and 166 Perry Street[7] , a high-end residential building in New York City. Other recently completed projects include the award-winning HydraPier Pavilion in [8] Haarlemmermeer, The Netherlands; the Guggenheim Virtual Museum; the New York Stock Exchange Advanced Trading Floor[9]; and the American flagship stores for Carlos Miele[10] and Alessi[11][12]. Asymptote has also produced design work, brand identities and product design for Alessi Italy, Volkswagen Wolfsberg Germany and Carlos Miele Brazil.
For nearly two decades, Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture have also produced experimental art installations and exhibition design work involving multi-media technologies for venues such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City; DOCUMENTA XI in Kassel, Germany; the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt and the Ministry of Public Works in Madrid. In 2000 Hani Rashid co-represented the United States at the Seventh Venice Architecture Biennale, and in 2004 both Rashid and Couture were chosen as the design architects for Metamorph, the Ninth Venice Architecture Biennale[13]. In 2004 Rashid and Couture were presented with the coveted Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts in recognition of exceptional contributions to the progress and merging of the disciplines and fields of art and architecture.
Asymptote’s work has been widely published and is included in various private and public collections including The Museum Of Modern Art in New York, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Frac Centre in Orléans, France.
Selected Completed Projects
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Hydrapier Pavilion
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![166 Perry Street New York, NY 2009[14]](/wiki/File:166_Perry_front.jpg)
![Alessi Flagship Store New York, NY 2006[11]](/wiki/File:Alessi_Flagship_Store.jpg)
![New York Stock Exchange Advanced Trading Floor New York, NY 2001[9]](/wiki/File:NYSE_Advanced_Trading_Floor.jpg)
Yas Island Marina Hotel
Abu Dhabi, UAE · 2007
completion date 2009
166 Perry Street / Luxury Condominiums
New York, USA · 2006
completion date 2009
Alessi Flagship Store
New York USA · 2006
Client: Alessi US Shops, New York, USA
Carlos Miele Flagship Store
New York, USA · 2003
HydraPier Pavilion
Haarlemmermeer, The Netherlands · 2002
New York Stock Exchange Advanced Trading Floor
New York, USA · 2001
Selected Projects (Current)
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The Azzano — San Paolo Master Plan
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The Penang Global City Center
Penang, Malaysia
The Azzano - San Paolo Master Plan
Bergamo, Italy · 2008
World Business Center Solomon Tower
Busan, South Korea · 2007
completion date 2013
Strata Tower
Abu Dhabi, UAE · 2006
completion date 2011
Penang Global City Center (PGCC)
Penang, Malaysia · 2006
completion date 2012
Selected Commissioned Projects
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190 VÁCI
Budapest, Hungary
The Azzano - San Paolo Master Plan
Bergamo, Italy · 2008
Vake Multifunctional Center
Tbilisi, Georgia · 2007
completion date 2010
Yas Island Marina Hotel
Abu Dhabi, UAE · 2007
completion date 2009
WTC Performing Arts Center
New York, USA · 2007
completion date TBD
World Business Center Solomon Tower
Busan, South Korea · 2007
completion date 2013
Strata Tower
Abu Dhabi, UAE · 2006
completion date 2011
Penang Global City Center (PGCC)
Penang, Malaysia · 2006
completion date 2012
Guggenheim Contemporary Art Pavilions at Saadiyat Island
Abu Dhabi, UAE · 2006
completion date TBD
Master Plan
Prague, Czech Republic · 2006
completion date 2015
190 Váci
Budapest, Hungary 2006
completion date 2009
166 Perry Street / Luxury Condominiums
New York, USA · 2006
completion date 2009
Monterrey City Center Master Plan
Monterrey, Mexico · 2005
completion date TBD
Beukenhof Auditorium
Schiedam, The Netherlands · 2004
completion date TBD
Alessi Flagship Store
New York USA · 2006
Client: Alessi US Shops, New York, USA
VW DataTerrain Exhibition Space
Wolfsburg, Germany · 2006
Venice Biennale 9th International Architecture Exhbition Design
Venice, Italy · 2004
Carlos Miele Flagship Store
New York, USA · 2003
HydraPier Pavilion
Haarlemmermeer, The Netherlands · 2002
New York Stock Exchange Advanced Trading Floor
New York, USA · 2001
Univers Multimedia Theatre
Aarhus, Denmark · 1997
Selected Competitions and Proposals
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Vitoria Exhibition and Music Hall
Vitoria, Spain · 2008
Master Plan for Yongsan IBD with Landmark Tower
Seoul, South Korea · 2008
Bahrain Harbor Residential Tower Complex
Manama, Bahrain · 2008
South Hudayriat Island International Design Competition
Abu Dhabi, UAE · 2008
Mystetskyj Arsenal Cultural–Art and Museum Complex
Kiev, Ukraine · 2008
Dynamix Balwas Group Company
Mumbai, India · 2008
FKI Headquarters Competition
Seoul, South Korea · 2008
Perm Museum
Perm, Russia · 2008
New Thermal Complex “San Pellegrino Terme”
San Pellegrino Terme, Italy · 2008
Vake Multifunctional Center (1st Prize)
Tbilisi, Georgia · 2008
Yas Island Marina Hotel
Abu Dhabi, UAE · 2007
WTC Performing Arts Center
New York, USA · 2007
DIFC Central Tower
Dubai, UAE · 2006
Hotel/Apartment Complex for HH Sheik Sultan Bin Khalifa
Abu Dhabi, UAE · 2006
World Business Center Busan (1st Prize)
Busan, South Korea · 2006
Islamic Museum and Cultural Center
Kuwait City, Kuwait · 2006
Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Shenzhen, China · 2006
Penang Turf Club Master Plan (1st Prize)
Penang, Malaysia · 2005
Guggenheim Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Mexico · 2005
Jalisco State Public Library
Guadalajara, Mexico · 2005
Annex to the WTO Headquarters
Geneva, Switzerland · 2003
Symphony Hall, Cultural and Administrative Complex
Montreal, Canada · 2002
Goethe University Master Plan
Goethe, Germany · 2002
Mercedes-Benz Museum of the Automobile
Stuttgart, Germany · 2001
Eyebeam Museum for Art and Technology
New York, USA · 2001
BMW Event and Delivery Center
Munich, Germany · 2001
Floriade Municipal Pavilion (1st Prize)
Haarlemmermeer, The Netherlands · 2001
WIPO Headquarters
Geneva, Switzerland · 2000
Beukenhorst Master Plan
Amsterdam, The Netherlands · 2000
Graz Music Theatre
Graz, Austria · 1998
Aarhus Museum of Modern Art
Aarhus, Denmark · 1997
National Museum of Korea
Seoul, South Korea · 1995
International Seaport Terminal
Yokohama, Japan · 1994
Tohoku Historical Museum
Sendai, Japan · 1994
Tours Contemporary Arts Center
Tours, France · 1993
Parliamentary Precinct / Spreebogen
Berlin, Germany · 1992
National Courthouse (1st Prize)
Groningen, The Netherlands · 1991
IdeenwettbewerbRiem Housing
Munich, Germany · 1991
Moscow State Theatre (Honorable Mention)
Moscow, Russia · 1990
Library of Alexandria
Alexandria, Egypt · 1989
Selected Publications
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Redesigning the World
Newsweek, Cathleen McGuigan, 2009
Strata Tower, Architectural Design
vol. 79, no. 2, 2009
Architectural Iconoclasts
Specifier, no. 78, Alys Moody, 2008
The Virtual Messiahs
Whitewall, Aric Chen, 2008
New Directions in Contemporary Architecture
John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2008
Modern Architecutre A-Z
Taschen, 2008
Performing Elegance
Architecural Design, vol. 77, no. 1, 2007
A Luxury Condo by Arty Architects from the Fringe
The New York Times, Arts Section, June 28th, 2007
Architecture Now!
Vol. 4, Taschen, 2006
Rem Koolhaas + Hani Rashid
The Architect’s Newspaper, October 6, 2006
Design Document Series 09: Scape_Asymptote Architecture/USA
DAMDI Co., Ltd, 2004
Architecture Now 3: The Architecture of Today
Taschen, 2004
On the Road to Venice: 9th Architecture Biennale
Architectural Record, Robert Ivy, 2004
Thoughts on the Metamorphoses of Architecture
Log, Kurt Forster. Fall 2004
Asymptote
A + U, July 2004
Architectural Laboratories: Greg Lynn & Hani Rashid
NAi Publishers, 2002
Flux
Phaidon Press, 2002
Haarlemmermeer Pavilion by Asymptote: Hydrapier
BIS, 2002
The Rashid Machine
Metropolis, Peter Hall, 2001
Curves Ahead: What About Blobs
Details, James S. Russell, Michael Moran, 2001
Reinventing the Museum
Wired, Jessie Scanlon, Carolyn Rauch, David Jang, 2000
Guggenheim Virtual Museum
Domus, 2000
Asymptote: Rashid + Couture
A+U, 1999
Asymptote’s Dual Projects for the NYSE
Architectural Record, Sarah Amelar, 1999
Architecture in the 1990s
New Forms, Philip Jodido, ed., Taschen, Cologne, 1997
Asymptote Architecture
Architecture for the Future, Pierre Terrall Editions, Paris, 1996
Asymptote: Architecture at the Interval
Rizzoli International Publications, 1995
Selected Awards
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American Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design · 2008
First Prize, Vake Multifunctional Center Competition · 2008
AIA New York Chapter Design Award, Interior Architecture Category · 2007
First Prize, World Business Center Busan Competition · 2007
First Prize, Penang Turf Club Master Plan Competition · 2006
AIA New York Chapter Design Award, Interior Architecture Category · 2005
Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts · 2004
American Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design · 2004
Dupont Benedictus Awards · 2003
AIA New York Chapter Design Award, Architecture Category · 2002
Prize Dedalo Minosse · 2002
First Prize, Floriade Municipal Pavilion Competition · 2001
National Design Awards Finalist, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum · 2001
Artist in Residence - CCA San Francisco · 2000
Emerging Voices: Architectural League of New York · 1999
Annual Danish Building Prize · 1996
Second Prize, Paper Art Biennale · 1995
40 Under 40, Interiors Magazine · 1994
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship · 1992
30 Under 30, Interiors Magazine · 1989
First Prize, Los Angeles West Coast Gateway Competition · 1989
References
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