Asymptote Architecture
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Since its founding in 1989 by principals Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture, Asymptote has experimented with technological innovation in the field of architecture and design in creating art installations, building designs, master plans and digital projects such as the Guggenheim Virtual Museum and the three-dimensional New York Stock Exchange Advanced Trading Floor. Completed projects in recent years include the award-wining HydraPier Pavilion in The Netherlands; the Univers Theaters in Aarhus, Denmark; the American flagship stores for Carlos Miele and Alessi in New York City and an interactive exhibition space for Volkswagen at the Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany.
Asymptote is currently working on a broad range of commissions at sites in the United States, Europe and Asia. The firm's new projects include a large-scale cultural, hotel and performing arts complex in Penang, Malaysia and a commission to build the World Business Center in Busan, Korea. The design for the World Business Center consists of three separate tapered towers soaring out of a single base and will, upon completion, be among the tallest buildings in Asia at 560m. Other recent competition proposals from Asymptote include a design for the Dubai International Financial Centre, a 146-story building that punctuates that city's skyline, and a dramatic design for a new Guggenheim Museum complex in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Projects designed by Asymptote now under construction include two commercial office towers in Budapest, Hungary; innovative, luxury residential buildings in New York City and Abu Dhabi; new flagship stores for Carlos Miele in Paris and São Paulo, Brazil and significant, large-scale master planning projects for the downtown core and central district of Monterey, Mexico and the Bubny commercial and residential district of Prague, Czech Republic.
For nearly two decades Asymptote has produced experimental art installations and exhibition design work involving multi-media technologies for such venues as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City; DOCUMENTA XI in Kasel, 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 Rashid and Couture were chosen as the design architects for Metamorph, the Ninth Venice Architecture Biennale .
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 Pinothek in Munich, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Frac Collection in Orleans, France.
In 2004, Rashid and Couture were presented with the coveted Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and Art in recognition of exceptional contributions to the progress and merging of art and architecture.