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Project: Museum of Technology Culture
Location: Present site of East River Piers 9 and 11, Manhattan
Architect: Asymptote Architecture--Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture, principals; John Cleater, Noburo Ota, Florian Pfeifer, David Serero
Program: Large- and small-scale spaces for expositions and media events, a theater, education and administration areas
Size: Approximately 900-by-250-foot base; 500,000 square feet total
Completion Year: 2005
Design Intent: The Museum of Technology Culture was conceived as a hybrid structure merging the typology of a convention center with the utility of a hangar, the public-event character of...