Posted AT 10:11 PM EDT on 15/02/08
Architecture: Boxes? No! Blobs? No! Boring? Never!
There was a point when the drawings and renderings by Asymptote, a New York firm led by two Canadians, Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture, were enough.
When building their designs might have sullied the reach of their imagination, and forfeited that which they had struggled to achieve: the beautiful edge.
It might have been that we never wanted them to become builders.
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