Asymptote Architecture, a cutting-edge architecture practicefounded by architects Hani Rashid and Lise AnneCouture in New York City. The partnership is recognized globally for highly innovative andvisionary buildings, masterplans, and interiorarchitecture, as well as speculative research and designprojects related to the future of architecture and cities. Asymptote has developed major masterplans, includingChangsha Eco-Tech Resort City China, as well as a masterplan for the center of Monterrey, Mexico, a newCBD for the Prague Czech Republic, and a newcultural masterplan for the coastal capital ofAzerbaijan, Baku.

«Our primary and insatiable desire to comprehend the infinite realms of space, and the cosmos has always intrigued, perplexed, and above all, inspired humankind to speculate and dream. Architecture, as one of many manifestations of humankind's delirium and aspirations, has since the very beginning been a conduit to the comprehension of the mysteries of realms well beyond our imagination. The essential need to comprehend disconcerting voids, mysterious objects, and uncanny phenomena have fueled our fantasies and science. The architecture of the Kosmos Center is derived from the mathematics, tectonics, and formations of Carbon at the molecular level. On Earth, all known living things have a carbon-based structure and system. Graphene, for example, has a massive covalent structure in which each carbon atom is joined to three other carbon atoms by what are called covalent bonds. The carbon atoms themselves that form multiple layers with a hexagonal arrangement of atoms, a unique and elegant architecture. This inspired our forms and tectonics when designing the project where we were in search of an architecture that described not only the encapsulating of information and data but more importantly, mysteries and above all else, possibilities both earthly and for humankind's inevitable interstellar existence.»Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture New York 2019