WOHA Architects was founded by Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell in 1994. WOHA’s earliest projects comprised a series of private houses and the Church of St Mary of the Angels in Singapore, which were well publicised and received many awards. When the practice won the competitions for two MRT stations in 2000, WOHA moved on to larger scale projects, initially in Singapore, and then throughout the region.
These project types range from from apartment towers to luxury resorts, mass-transit stations, condominiums, hotels, educational institutions, and public buildings.
1 Moulmein Rise, completed in 2003, was WOHA’s first high-rise tower and won the 2007 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Subsequent apartment towers, such as Newton Suites in Singapore and The Met in Bangkok, Thailand, were also highly praised and awarded, and showed that WOHA’s approach to high-rise living in tropical cities was continually evolving.
