LOCATION: Perm, Russia

SIZE: 18,000 sq. m

DATE: 2007

Asymptote was recently awarded an Honorable Mention in the competition to design a new building for the Perm Museum in Russia. Asymptote’s design is for a building with two components—a chromed underside and an expansive, ebony landscape above—that form a provocative union of materials. At once an inverted landscape trailing across the entirety of the site, the building is also a surface of gesture that moves counter punctually above, two dialectic terrains that effectively create a singular, powerful object.

CLIENT: Ministry of Culture and Youth of Perm Region

ARCHITECT:

Asymptote Architecture

CONSULTANTS:

MEP & STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: Arup

SUSTAINABILITY DESIGN: Arup

LIGHT ENGINEER: Arup

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