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The architecture of WOHA, founded by Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell in 1994, is notable for its constant evolution and innovation. A profound awareness of local context and tradition is intertwined with an ongoing exploration of contemporary architectural form-making and ideas, thus creating a unique fusion of practicality and invention. WOHA conceptualizes all aspects of the architectural process, and environmental principles have always been fundamental to the work of the practice, which is guided by a commitment to responsive place-making and to the creation of an invigorating and sustainable architecture.WOHA have developed a unique approach to tropical architecture and urbanism, weaving landscape and community space through porous structures. WOHA has launched a new book at the 2016 Venice Biennale, called Garden City Mega City, which shares strategies for the exploding mega cities of the tropical belt. In the book, WOHA show how integrated landscape, architecture and urbanism can improve quality of life within high density environments. In the book WOHA propose 5 new ratios for evaluating the success of projects - Green Plot Ratio, Community Plot Ratio, Ecosystem Contribution Score, Civic Generosity Index, and Self Sufficiency Index - to ensure projects achieve social and environmental sustainability.WOHA’s built projects – throughout Southeast Asia, China, and Australia – range from apartment towers to luxury resorts, mass-transit stations, condominiums, hotels, educational institutions, and public buildings. WOHA have won an unprecedented amount of architectural awards for a Southeast Asian practice: from an Aga Khan Award in 2007 for 1 Moulmein Rise apartment building, to the RIBA Lubetkin award for The Met Bangkok in 2011, to their World Architecture Festival award winners in such diverse categories as education - School of the Arts, holiday - the Alila Villas Uluwatu resort, and transport - the Bras Basah MRT station. Their Platinum Green Mark-rated PARKROYAL on Pickering hotel, since opening in 2013, has become one of Singapore’s most iconic buildings, receiving the 2015 Urban Habitat Award from the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the 2014 Design for Asia Award Grand Award and the 2013 World Architecture News Hotel of the Year Award. The practice currently has projects under construction in Singapore, India, Australia and Indonesia. WOHA exhibited at an invited, solo show at The Skyscraper Museum in New York in March - September 2016. A travelling exhibition devoted exclusively to their works opened at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Germany, in December 2011, and four substantial monographs – WOHA: The Architecture of WOHA, WOHA: Selected Projects Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, and WOHA: Breathing Architecture – have already been published.

WOHA的建筑是由Wong Mun Summ和Richard Hassell于1994年创立的，其显著特点是不断的演变和创新。对当地环境和传统的深刻认识与对当代建筑造形和理念的不断探索交织在一起，从而创造出实用性和发明性的独特融合。WOHA对建筑过程的各个方面进行了构思，环境原则一直是该事务所工作的基本原则，其指导思想是致力于响应地方建设，并创造一个充满活力和可持续发展的建筑。WOHA对热带建筑和城市化发展了一种独特的方法，通过多孔结构编织景观和社区空间。WOHA在2016年威尼斯双年展上推出了一本名为《花园城市巨型城市》的新书，分享了热带地带爆炸性的巨型城市的策略。在书中，WOHA展示了综合景观、建筑和城市化如何在高密度环境中改善生活质量。在书中，WOHA提出了5个评估项目成功与否的新比率--绿色地块比率、社区地块比率、生态系统贡献得分、公民慷慨指数和自给自足指数--以确保项目实现社会和环境的可持续性。WOHA的建设项目--遍布东南亚、中国和澳大利亚--从公寓大楼到豪华度假村、大众交通站、公寓、酒店、教育机构和公共建筑。WOHA为东南亚的建筑事务所赢得了前所未有的众多奖项：从2007年因Moulmein Rise 1号公寓楼获得阿迦汗奖，到2011年因The Met Bangkok获得英国皇家建筑师协会Lubetkin奖，再到他们在世界建筑节上获得的各种奖项，如教育--艺术学校，度假--乌鲁瓦图阿丽拉别墅度假村，以及交通--Bras Basah地铁站。他们的白金绿色标志等级的PARKROYAL on Pickering酒店，自2013年开业以来，已经成为新加坡最具标志性的建筑之一，获得了高层建筑和城市人居环境委员会颁发的2015年城市人居环境奖、2014年亚洲设计大奖和2013年世界建筑新闻年度酒店奖。该事务所目前在新加坡、印度、澳大利亚和印度尼西亚都有在建项目。2016年3月至9月，WOHA在纽约摩天大楼博物馆举办了受邀个展。2011年12月，一个专门展示其作品的巡回展在德国的Deutsches Architekturmuseum开幕，并且已经出版了四本实质性的专著--《WOHA：WOHA的建筑》、《WOHA：精选项目第一和第二卷》以及《WOHA：呼吸的建筑》。