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Book SynopsisA major overview of Singapore's most exciting architecture practice, documenting the complete corpus of WOHA's pioneering sustainable and built work. WOHA is at the vanguard of urban and ecological revitalization in Singapore and a pioneer of Southeast Asia's green-building revolution. Founded by Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell in 1994, Singapore's most dynamic architecture studio is known for delivering innovative and sustainable design solutions to combat the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and urbanization. Even within Singapore's leading-edge architecture scene, WOHA have broken new ground, and they are continuing to do so in our rapidly expanding cities where far-sighted thinking is imperative to sustainable and sociable development. Its projects stretch from Singapore to Bangladesh, China and Australia, where the practice's ambitions are being realized in works like the self-sufficient Punggol Digital District in Singapore. This complete overvi
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Essays by Patrick Bingham-Hall Virtuous Architecture
Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell
WOHA’s Residential Architecture: Rigour and Certitude
WOHA at the Turn of the Millennium
Sky Cities and Towers of Green
A New Way of Building in the Tropics: The First Decade of Public Architecture
Aesthetics and Sustainability
Macro-Architecture Micro-Urbanism
Building for the World: A Second Decade of Public Architecture
Garden City Mega City: Rethinking Cities for the Age of Global Warming
Scaling Up and Up: Designing Cities of the Future
Regenerating Cities
Essays by Nirmal Kishnani Converge + Connect + Intersect
The Form Axiom
Essays by Timothy Beatley Buildings that Bloom, Cities that Regenerate and Flourish
Projects St Mary of the Angels, SINGAPORE, 1999-2003
1 Moulmein Rise, SINGAPORE, 2000-03
Bras Basah MRT Station, SINGAPORE, 2000-08
Stadium MRT Station, SINGAPORE, 2000-08
Alila Villas Uluwatu, BALI, INDONESIA, 2003-09
The Met, BANGKOK, THAILAND, 2003-09
School of the Arts, SINGAPORE, 2005-10
Parkroyal on Pickering, SINGAPORE, 2007-13
SkyVille @ Dawson, SINGAPORE, 2007-15
Oasia Downtown, SINGAPORE, 2011-16
Kampung Admiralty, SINGAPORE, 2013-17
