Dates: 2 December 2011 – 29 April 2012
Venue: Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), Ground Floor,
Frankfurt am Main
Opening: Thu, 1 December 2011, 19.00 h
PARKROYAL on Pickering, Singapore, 2012
Rendering: WOHA
THE PRIZE WINNERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL HIGHRISE AWARD 2010 NOW SHOWN IN A MONOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
Architects the world over are currently vying with one another to produce
futuristic designs for green architecture and green metropolises – WOHA is
actually building them. Some of their structures remind us of bold visions of
the future, in which plants reclaim nature for themselves. WOHA realize the
permeation of buildings and landscape, of interiors and exteriors in projects
such as the Singapore School of the Arts and the seminal residential high-rise
The Met in Bangkok, which received the International Highrise Award 2010.
Portrait of Mun Summ Wong (on the right) and Richard Hassell, Directors WOHA
Photo: WOHA
WOHA is represented by Mun Summ Wong and Richard Hassell as directors of the architectural office based in Singapore. They made their name in Asia in the
late 1990s with open, single-family dwellings suitable for the tropics. Today
they mainly design high-rises and large structures: a mega residential park in
India, office and hotel towers in Singapore that lend a new, vertical dimension
to green landscapes. Air-conditioning is merely an additional feature for these
open structures, because the building structure itself provides the cooling.
Natural lighting is standard, solar modules harvest energy for use in the
buildings; water for domestic purposes and rainwater are reused.
Duxton Plain Public Housing, Competition, Singapore, 2001/02
Rendering: WOHA
At the moment
WOHA are also attracting attention in Europe and overseas. They just received
the renowned Lubetkin Prize, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects in London on October 1, 2011 (RIBA Lubetkin
Prize for the most outstanding work of international architecture by a member of
the RIBA).
Topics such as creating value added through communal areas and permeability for climate and nature will be presented in WOHA’s first monographic exhibition using examples of open tropical family homes, green high-rises and projects still in the completion phase like Singapore’s office and hotel ensemble
PARKROYAL on Pickering.
The exhibition showcases 19 of WOHA's most important projects in large-format photos and plans, excerpts from interviews and project texts, digital images and models.
A catalogue in German and English is being published by Prestel Verlag.
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