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"We like to find out the DNA of a city," says Hani Rashid, cofounder of Asymptote, who's finishing a hotel in Abu Dhabi and has designed strikingly unconventional towers to be built in Busan, South Korea, and Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Couture is principal of uber-super-future design shop Asymptote with Hani Rashid.
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Thanks to the innovative technology that came out of schools like Columbia and firms like Frank Gehry's, the irregularly shaped designs from offices such as Reiser+Umemoto and Asymptote — an experimental New York atelier that was recently shortlisted in a competition for a massive urban rehab project in Seoul — could be built at a reasonable cost.
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Hani Rashid of Asymptote showed a lucid (and fully functional) 3-D visualization of the New York Stock Exchange's labyrinthine cyber-infrastructure that helps system managers keep sight of the big picture.
The Lightness in Being Innovative Douglas Heingartner 2000
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_Asymptote_ again comes from ασυμπτωτος {asymptôtos}, _non-meeting_, _non-secant_, and had with the Greeks a more general signification as well as the narrower one which it has for us: it was sometimes used of parallel lines, which also
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Designed by Asymptote, the hot architecture firm based in New York, the 499-room Yas Hotel is covered in a shell of diamond-shaped glass panels, like a high-tech veil.
NYT > Travel 2010
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Asymptote provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX does for scientific text.
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Asymptote provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX does for scientific text.
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A major advantage of Asymptote over other graphics packages is that it is a programming language, as opposed to just a graphics program.
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