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CAP NEW YORK SHANGHAI has established an AWARD-WINNING PROFILE IN FUTURISTIC WORK, using cutting-edge digital design and production techniques. Since the inception of our office, we have been at the forefront of designing projects that leverage the most advanced technologies available to designers. We are constantly active in inventing design techniques, experimenting with the latest fabrication technologies, and incorporating innovative business models in designs. Our goal is to continue to stay at the fore front of innovation in the design practice. We take pride in the results of this diligence: consistently intelligent, beautiful designs.

ARCHITECTURAL RECORD awarded us "DESIGN VANGUARD 2004" as "one of eleven practices building the future" and we were also nominated to the prestigious "ORDOZ PRIZE". The work of the firm has been called " Elegant and virtuoso using the computer for the most beautiful compositions...The designs are immaculate, crisp and coherently detailed..." by ZAHA HADID.

当代建筑实践，是未来主义风格中屡获殊荣建筑事务所，擅长运用前沿的参数化设计手段和最新的数控加工技术。自工作室创立伊始，事务所就注重于将可用范围内的最高科学技术融入设计创作，在该领域处在的创作的前沿。我们一直致力于设计工艺的创新，积极探索最新生产技术的创新应用，以及追求结合了创新商业模式的设计形态。我们的目标是始终保持在创新设计领域的前端。也因此，我们为事务所完成的设计作品，保持着一贯的智慧与美丽的品质而感到自豪。

我们在美国的“十一位未来建筑实践之一”建筑奖项评选中被授予了“2004年度先锋”的荣誉称号，并且我们还获得了建筑业界颇具威望的“Ordos奖”候选人提名。另外，扎哈.哈迪德也给予我们高度评价：“优雅而精湛地运用电脑技术完成了这些精美的设计作品，····这些设计是干净的、精湛的，细节上无可挑剔的····”

ALI RAHIM

Director has 25 years of experience in architectural design and management around the world. He graduated from Columbia University where he received the honor award for excellence in design and the Kinney travelling felowship. Active in education, Rahim is a professor of design at the University of Pennsylvania and has previously served as the Zaha Hadid studio visiting design professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Louis Kahn visiting design professor at Yale Univ.

HINA JAMELLE

Director has over 15 years of experience in Philadelphia and New York City, including management experience on large-scale institutional buildings. Prior to joining CAP in 2003, she served as client partner at media consulting firm Razorfish in New York city. She holds a Masters degree in Architecture from the University of Michigan where she won the university wide Martin Luther King Leadership Award. She teaches graduate design studios at the University of Pennsylvania

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