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WOHA was founded by Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell in 1994. The Singapore-based practice focuses on conceiving integrated architectural and urban solutions to tackle the problems of the 21st century such as climate change, population growth and rapidly increasing urbanisation.
WOHA. This book was the first volume of several to be published by Pesaro on WOHA Architects, now regarded as Southeast Asia’s most innovative and successful architectural practice. Singapore-based WOHA were founded by Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell in 1994.
The Reserve Residences is a nature-inspired, nature-positive development and the new southern gateway to the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore’s largest surviving primary rainforest.
Planting trees and increasing green spaces is the most widely available and effective way to combat the effects of man-made climate change. The Singapore Pavilion at the 2020 World EXPO in Dubai integrates landscaping into its design, showing that the built environment does not need to displace nature.
Oasia Hotel Downtown sets out to create an alternative imagery for commercial high-rise developments. It combines innovative ways to intensify land use with a tropical approach that showcases a perforated, permeable, furry, verdant tower of green in the heart of Singapore’s Central Business District (CBD).
This project won an open international architectural competition for an underground train station at the Singapore National Stadium. The scheme, addressed the particular stadium issues of surge crowds and crowd holding areas by placing the unpaid areas at ground level, and providing a public plaza.
Punggol Digital District will be the first district to adopt an integrated masterplan approach that brings together a business park, a university and community facilities and transport infrastructure. The district-level planning approach creates synergies, optimises land use and catalyses community building.
WOHA was founded by Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell in 1994. The Singapore-based practice focuses on conceiving integrated architectural and urban solutions to tackle the problems of the 21st century such as climate change, population growth and rapidly increasing urbanisation.
WOHA’s creative process involves finding innovative and regenerative ways for the city’s various systems – land use, public space, community, mobility, urban greenery, biodiversity, energy, food, water, waste, etc – to strategically and synergistically overlap and maximize the project’s potential.
Mun Summ Wong co-founded WOHA in 1994. He is a Professor in Practice at the National University of Singapore’s Department of Architecture and co-directs the Integrated Sustainable Design Masters Studio.
