No less than twelve of WOHA's designs—what the museum calls "vertical ecosystems"—will be on display at the exhibit. Multimedia displays, including architectural models, will showcase how these projects break the conventions of skyscraper design: unlike the Miesian tower, they are hardly hermetic and sealed from nature.
Seen here is the firm's PARKROYAL on Pickering, in Singapore. The nearly 300-foot-tall hotel and office building features these sculptural outdoor gardens.
Given Langka's directive that "the people who live around us have to see our roof and I don't want them to see anything but grass," topped the house with a green roof.
Architect Marco Casagrande designed the Chen House to make use of the nearby Datun River’s breeze. Raising the house on stilts reduces the building’s impact on the earth while preserving the home from flood waters that run underneath post-storm. Sanjhih, Taipei, Taiwan. Photo by Lukas Casagrande.
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