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Mun Summ Wong
WOHA Architects, Founding Director | Singapore, Singapore
About
Mun Summ Wong co-founded the Singapore-based architectural practice WOHA in 1994. He is a Professor in Practice at the National University of Singapore's Department of Architecture and co-directs the Integrated Sustainable Design Masters Studio. He is also appointed to the Seidler Chair in the Practice of Architecture at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He sits on the Nominating Committee of the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize, the Design Advisory Board of DesignSingapore Council as well as a Member of the CTBUH Masters of Tall Building and Vertical Urbanism Advisory Panel, in collaboration with the Illinois Institute of Technology.
WOHA projects are living systems that connect to the city as a whole. With every project, the practice aims to create a matrix of interconnected human-scaled environments that foster community, enable stewardship of nature, generate biocentric…
CTBUH Roles
Annual Conference, Presenter (Chicago 2009)
Awards Jury (2010; Chair 2015)
Annual Conference, Keynote Speaker (Shanghai 2014; China 2016)
Annual Conference, Session Chair (Shanghai 2014)
CTBUH Initiatives
Adapting Urban Density in the Age of Pandemics
06 May 2020
2017 Global Walking Tours: The Space Within Tall Buildings
21 June–07 July 2017
Videos
06 May 2020
Adapting Urban Density in the Age of Pandemics
As the world contends with the rippling effects of COVID-19, key questions have arisen around the responsiveness of dense cities with respect to the current...
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Research
16 October 2023
Nature-Positive Vertical Urbanism
Mun Summ Wong & Hong Wei Phua
Located on Singapore’s famed Orchard Road, Pan Pacific Orchard encapsulates WOHA’s pursuit of nature-positive vertical urbanism by rethinking the tropical urban hotel. It shows the...
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Research
28 July 2018
Oasia Hotel Downtown, Singapore: A Tall Prototype for the Tropics
Mun Summ Wong, Richard Hassell & Hong Wei Phua, WOHA Architects
Oasia Hotel Downtown is a prototype of land use intensification in the tropics. Unlike the sleek and sealed skyscrapers that evolved in the temperate West,...
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CTBUH Initiatives
23 March 2023
CTBUH and IIT Studio Travel to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur
Seven students in the Master in Tall Building and Vertical Urbanism (MTBVU) program at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) joined CTBUH President Antony Wood and CTBUH Research Director Daniel Safarik in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, 6–19 February 2023.
6 May 2020
Adapting Urban Density in the Age of Pandemics
CTBUH hosts an online webinar panel of global experts discussing the future of urban density given the recent, unprecedented challenges of COVID-19.
7 July 2017
2017 Global Walking Tours: The Space Within Tall Buildings
The CTBUH Urban Habitat / Urban Design Committee organized its fourth annual Global Walking Tours, which took place in 15 cities around the world.
7 July 2017
CTBUH UH/UD 2017 Global Walking Tour
The CTBUH Urban Habitat / Urban Design Committee will be holding another set of worldwide walking tours, this time focused on The Space Within.
14 August 2009
Singapore Visit
Executive Director Antony Wood shares his recent experiences of a new and exciting Singapore which has, in a quiet, unpretentious way, been implementing social-urban policies.
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06 May 2020
Adapting Urban Density in the Age of Pandemics
As the world contends with the rippling effects of COVID-19, key questions have arisen around the responsiveness of dense cities with respect to the current...
09 April 2019
Panel Discussion: What Makes an Award-Winning Tall Building?
The expanded CTBUH Awards Program embraces the full breadth of interdisciplinary work that brings tall buildings to life, and sustains and prolongs their life cycles....
31 May 2018
A Beacon of Red and Green, Connected to the Cityscape
Envisaged as a “tropical tower” in the concrete jungle, the Oasia Hotel Downtown incorporates lush greenery on its façade and terraces. The tower is like...
17 October 2016
Garden City, Megacity: Rethinking Cities for the Age of Global Warming
This presentation proposes an alternative to the continuing implementation of unsustainable 20th century urban planning models. By using WOHA’s mini-city projects and proposals as prototypes...
17 October 2016
CTBUH Video Interview – Mun Summ Wong
Mun Summ Wong of WOHA Architects is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2016 CTBUH China Conference. Mun Summ discusses the garden city concept with...
17 October 2016
The Sustainability of Density & Vertical Urbanism Q & A
Monday, October 17, 2016. Shenzhen, China. long Xiu, Chairman, Architectural Society of China; Mun Summ Wong, Woha; Antony Wood, Executive Director, CTBUH answer questions at...
17 March 2016
Monthly Video: WOHA Architects
Mun Summ Wong & Richard Hassell, WOHA Architects, discuss vertical greenery and PARKROYAL on Pickering, the 2015 CTBUH Urban Habitat Award Winner. View the extended...
12 November 2015
Nicholas E. Billotti, Chairman, Turner International, Michael George, Regional Director, JLL, Alberto Alarcon, Chief Executive Officer, HOLEDECK, Maria Ramirez, Managing Director, HOLEDECK, and Mun Summ...
Research
16 October 2023
Nature-Positive Vertical Urbanism
Mun Summ Wong & Hong Wei Phua
Located on Singapore’s famed Orchard Road, Pan Pacific Orchard encapsulates WOHA’s pursuit of nature-positive vertical urbanism by rethinking the tropical urban hotel. It shows the...
28 July 2018
Oasia Hotel Downtown, Singapore: A Tall Prototype for the Tropics
Mun Summ Wong, Richard Hassell & Hong Wei Phua, WOHA Architects
Oasia Hotel Downtown is a prototype of land use intensification in the tropics. Unlike the sleek and sealed skyscrapers that evolved in the temperate West,...
17 October 2016
Garden City, Megacity: Rethinking Cities for the Age of Global Warming
Mun Summ Wong, Richard Hassell & Alina Yeo, WOHA Architects
This paper proposes an alternative to the continuing implementation of unsustainable 20th century urban planning models. By using WOHA’s mini-city projects and proposals as prototypes...
17 October 2016
Garden City, Megacity: Rethinking Cities For the Age of Global Warming
Mun Summ Wong, Richard Hassell & Alina Yeo, WOHA Architects
The 20th-century city developed in response to industrialization and population growth, with a planning vision encoded in regulations that limited evolving with the times. The...
16 September 2014
The Tropical Skyscraper: Social Sustainability in High Urban Density
Mun Summ Wong, Richard Hassell & Alina Yeo, WOHA Architects
Asia’s rapidly growing metropolises demand an alternative strategy for city planning and architecture that addresses the need to live appropriately and sustainably with our tropical...
14 September 2014
Towards Sustainable Vertical Urbanism
Daniel Safarik, CTBUH
The survival of humanity on this planet relies on a radical repositioning of our cities. In the face of unprecedented global population growth, urbanization, pollution...
16 January 2012
Case Study: The Hansar, Bangkok
Mun Summ Wong & Richard Hassell, WOHA
High-rise, high-density living has been embraced as a positive housing solution for many millions of people living in Asia’s growing urban metropolises. The Hansar, a...
01 August 2009
Tall Buildings in Southeast Asia - A Humanist Approach to Tropical High-Rise
Mun Summ Wong & Richard Hassell, WOHA
High-rise, high-density living has been embraced as a positive accommodation solution for many millions of people living in Asia's growing urban metropolis. This paper outlines...
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