| ASYMPTOTE, Hani Rashid and parter Lisa Ann Coutures design, architecture and research practice based in New York, has produced a number of key works in recent years that involve the use of digital tools and technologies in their inception and outcome. Amongst the most important is the 3DTF, a virtual reality trading floor designed for the New York Stock Exchange. This project is the first large scale VR environment commissioned and used for business purposes. Another project of equal importance is the Guggenheim Virtual Museum, a project commissioned by the R. Solomon Guggenheim Museum to incorporate and house their digital and internet related art collections. The project exists solely on the internet as a digitally accessible museum that uses architecture and other spatial paradigms as its basis for design and experience. Most recently Asymptote has completed the construction of HydraPier, a permanent building housing technology and art in Holland near Schipol airport and a new line of office furniture for Knoll International.
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