Article source: Asymptote Architecture

Throughout history, art has always served as a powerful and resonating vehicle of cultural expression and a reflection on a society’s status and enlightened position in the world. These pavilions are at once looking into the past, the present and the future, seemingly engaged in a profound and silent dialogue. They are designed to embody timelessness and to allow for varied subjective interpretations and the superimposition of different meanings as time and local culture moves forward. Through their abstract and formal language they are conceived as tectonic gestures, privileging at once elegance, perfection and beauty, all drawn from the unique and profound landscapes, histories and futures that define this remarkable part of the world.

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• Architect: Asymptote Architecture
• Name of Project: Guggenheim Contemporary Art Pavilions
• Location: Saadiyat Island
• Principal Architects:Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture
• Project Architect:Stella Lee
• Design Team:Greg Derrico
• Assistants:Kasper Ax, Allan Sorensen, Hiroe Fujimoto

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