Richard Hassell and Wong Mun Summ

Richard Hassell and Wong Mun Summ

Photography: Patrick Bingham-Hall

WOHA, Singapore

An Australian architect and his Singaporean business partner are creating a new architectural typology in South East Asia with a series of sustainable buildings that are winning international acclaim.

The architecture firm WOHA – named for the first two letters of its directors’ surnames – may be relatively young, but it has already built iconic buildings in Singapore and other Asian locations that have earned global recognition.

“We actually used to use the example of Melbourne as a culture where the public recognises design,” Hassell recalls. “But Singapore has changed a lot over the last 20 years, so I think now it is quite similar in the public appreciation of design. Singapore – and Asia in general – is a little more focused on the positive outcomes of innovation, rather than on the liability and value engineering issues.”

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