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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
Asymptote 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. , 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 ; 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. , 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, a high-end residential building in New York City. Other recently completed projects include the award-winning HydraPier Pavilion in Haarlemmermeer, The Netherlands; the Guggenheim Virtual Museum; the New York Stock Exchange Advanced Trading Floor ; and the American flagship stores for Carlos Miele and Alessi. 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. 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
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)
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
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
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
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
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