Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / Strata Tower

The Strata Tower was my final project at Asymptote Architecture. I remember one night in Dubai just before we started, Hani Rashid and I smoked cigars at a floating nightclub (so Dubai) and talked endlessly about our ideas and ambitions for the building. 

I spent a sleepless year on the design, working solid through Christmas and New Years without taking a day off. Still, it all felt worthwhile when construction started.

Unfortunately, and this tends to happen too frequently in architecture, it did not get much further than this.

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Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture

YAS Hotel by Asymptote Architecture

The Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi, designed by my former employer, Asymptote Architecture, Opens October 2009

Asymptote Architecture, the award-winning, New York-based practice, nears completion of The Yas Hotel project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Yas Hotel is a 500-room, 85,000-square-meter complex now under construction by Aldar Properties PJSC. Asymptote was awarded the commission to design the buildings and environs from a closed competition two years ago targeting an opening date of October 30, 2009 to coincide with the Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

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This is amazing and terrible all at once.