News
As we explore ways to practice design and social architecture, we always try to share what we’ve learned with others through our latest projects, presentations, and experimentations. Somewhere along the way, we manage to catch the attention of others who have much to say about what we do. Read about what we have been up to through our latest news!
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WTA Architecture and Design Studio triumphs in various international design competitions
An urban forest city and a security complex featuring a forested facade are among the award-winning projects designed by Manila-based…
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WTA and the paradigm shift on the practice of social architecture
By Patricia Antoinette Ko In the past century, principal architects like Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies were articulate in the language…
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City of Tomorrow: The Need for a Coherent Infrastructure Agenda
by William Ti, Jr. Infrastructure is defined as the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation…
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City of Tomorrow: Urban biodiversity
By: William Ti Jr. The new administration presents us with an opportunity to recalibrate our urban systems. It is a…
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WTA Receives APR’s Urban Design & Architecture Design Gold Award 2022
Manila – Last May 4, 2022, WTA Architecture and Design Studio was announced a Gold Award Winner for Architecture Press…
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WTA Breaks Ground for two projects – Antiao Riverwalk and the Catbalogan City Hall
March 9, 2022 – Two groundbreaking events took place in Catbalogan City, Samar for the Antiao Riverwalk Project and the…
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City of tomorrow smart subdivisions
By: William Ti Jr. The recent advances in information technology and communications have prompted a desire to update the housing…
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WTA among NCCA’s Ani ng Dangal awardees
WTA Architecture and Design Studio makes it to this year’s list of Ani ng Dangal recipients of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
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Twelve Luxury Flats featured in Archinect’s 2022 Lunar New Year roundup
Archinect highlights WTA’s Twelve Luxury Flats as exciting project in the year of the Tiger
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Filipino designers are truly world class
WTA Architecture and Design Studio was commended for their recognition in the World Architecture Festival 2021 alongside other Filipino architects….
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The vision of Architect William Ti
Horizon Manila by WTA Architecture and Design Studio is an answer to these questions. No wonder it won big at…
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Horizon Manila Wins Overall WAFX Award
Dec. 10, 2021, Manila, Philippines – Horizon Manila by WTA Architecture and Design Studio is the 2021 WAFX Project of…
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And the Winner is WTA!
William Ti’s Horizon Manila (aka Manileño) just won one of the World Architecture Festival’s “of-the-Year” prizes and he’s already planning…
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Horizon Manila WTA Architecture and Design Studio Winner 2021 WAFX Award
WAFX Award The WAFX Award herald’s the world’s most forward-looking architectural concepts, and is awarded to future projects that identify…
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Horizon Manila Just Won a Major International Design Award
Horizon Manila by WTA Architecture and Design Studio is the overall winner of the 2021 WAFX Award at the 2021 World Architecture…
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The Emergency Quarantine Facilities (EQF) Wins B1M Construction Story of the Year 2021
We are delighted to announce that WTA Architecture and Design Studio has won the B1M Construction Story of the Year…
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City of tomorrow: Makati
By: William Ti jr. The City of Makati is the premier central business district (CBD) and financial center of the…
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The EQF Project is One of Three Finalists for B1Ms Construction Story of the Year
Our Emergency Quarantine Facilities (EQFs) are one of three finalists for the B1Ms Construction Story of the Year 2021. The…
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City of Tomorrow: Maynila
by William Ti, Jr. (IG: @entrari @wtadesignstudio) Manila is the historical, geopolitical and cultural center of the Philippines. Our city…
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City of Tomorrow: Learning from Manila
by William Ti, Jr. I’m always impressed by how older drivers could still manage to go around the city without…
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WTA’s Emergency Quarantine Facilities (EQFs) Shortlisted at WAFX 2021
Manila, Philippines, July 31, 2021 – WTA Architecture and Design Studio is proud to announce that its the Emergency Quarantine…
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How a Homegrown Architect aided the nation throughout the pandemic
The past year has made us all experience some of the most unprecedented events in the history of mankind. It…
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WTA’s Horizon Manila Project Wins WAFX 2021 Award
Manila, Philippines, July 24, 2021 – WTA Architecture and Design Studio is proud to announce that the firm’s project –…
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Horizon East District
Horizon Manila is currently the biggest approved reclamation project in the Metro Manila side of Manila Bay. The first phase of…
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The future is creative
By William Ti jr. We always talk about smart cities and how technology can help change our lives. We imagine…
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WTA’s Horizon Manila Wins WAFX Water Category
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) announced today the festival’s picks of some of “the world’s most forward-looking architectural concepts,” winners…
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William Ti On Building Legacy Not Just Beautiful Architecture
Architect William Ti shares his vision and his ultimate goal as an architect. He goes on and stresses that “if…
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City of Tomorrow: Public Architecture
An article written by William Ti, Jr. published in @inquirerdotnet I was driving down the street the other day and…
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Twelve Luxury Flats wins an Asia Pacific Property Award!
WTA Architecture and Design Studio was honoured at the 28th Asia Pacific Property Awards in an online virtual ceremony for…
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Construction update for the FEM Stadium
Ilocos Norte, 2021 – The FEM Stadium setting up its steel frames and bleachers, as seen in the construction update…
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WTA Awarded as BCI Asia’s Top Ten Architects in the Philippines 2020/2021
Manila, Philippines, June 21, 2021 – WTA Architecture and Design Studio was honoured at the 16th BCI Asia Top Ten…
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Breathing new life to manila
The mixed-use planned community brings forth a greener, healthier and future-ready Manila. Manila, the country’s capital, has fallen several times…
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Designing the Manileño dream
Not many will contradict me if I say that the works of fantasy writer Neil Gaiman and sci-fi legend Isaac…
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Twelve Luxury Flats Architecture Tour
Located in San Juan, Manila, The Twelve Luxury Flats stack houses that allow for gratifying views, healthier ventilation, better privacy,…
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City of Tomorrow: The human environment (2/2)
Villa Borghese Gardens, Rome We need environments in which we can thrive. The 21st century will see homo sapiens become…
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City of Tomorrow: The human environment (1/2)
(First in a series) Climate change continues to be the single, most important long term global concern, even as we…
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City of Tomorrow: Megacities and the story of our future
Sometimes it gets awfully confusing trying to figure out how to describe or define Manila. As we get well into…
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William Ti on the Architecture Construction City Conference
WTA Architecture Design Studio Principal Architect, William Ti Jr., shares his Social Architecture lecture at the Architecture Construction City (ACC)…
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City of Tomorrow: Where do we go from here?
Exactly a year ago from today, we brought together a special group of people to help augment the capacity of…
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Anthology Festival 2021: Nature, Building, and City for “Our City
Anthology Festival, an annual architectural festival held by WTA Design & Studio on March 19-21, 2021. Different from previous years…
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Anthology Festival 2021: Our City
For the past 5 years, Anthology Festival has delved into themes that revolve around current events in the hopes of…
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Garden City wins OPAL Award
Developed by Golden Bay Land Holdings, and designed by WTA Architecture and Design Studio, the Garden City Cavite wins the…
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City of Tomorrow: Twelve Luxury Flats
The City of San Juan is a lovely residential neighborhood at the geographical center of Metro Manila. At only…
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The Year of the Ox
By: William Ti jr. The Chinese New Year marks the turning of the lunar calendar. It is also known as…
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MAKNA 2020 ASA 2021
Archinesia invites WTA Design Studio to “MAKNA 2020 & ASA 2021” last January 30, 2021. Principal Architect William Ti and Senior…
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City of Tomorrow: Our City Anthology Festival 2021
We spend more than 90 percent of our lives in our city. We eat, sleep and work here. We grow…
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WTA makes it to the top World Architecture 100 2021 list!
Newcomer to the World Architecture 100 list, WTA Architecture and Design Studio ranks 100th in Building Design‘s annual survey of…
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City of Tomorrow: Twelve houses (Conclusion)
Today’s column explores six other amazing houses that highlight the amount of talent and creativity in the country. They provide…
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City of Tomorrow: Twelve houses (First of two parts)
I was recently standing on the marble floors on the steps of a project when, while looking at the balusters…
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City of Tomorrow: Architecture 2021
The Ikebana house by WTA is arranged around an organic asymmetry embodied by room cuts balanced within the program. Pocket…
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Presenting Manileño
Manileño is a masterplan that focuses on the people who make up the storied and vibrant communities, from Chinatown to…
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Meet the COVID-19 heroes of the Ginebra Ako Awards
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — Ginebra San Miguel recently held the “Ginebra Ako Awards Year 3: Pagkakaisa sa Gitna ng Pandemya”…
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EQF Team wins Ginebra Ako Awards 2020: Lalaban Ako Award
Ginebra San Miguel conducts their first virtual award ceremony, the Ginebra Ako Awards, on the their official facebook page last…
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City of Tomorrow: Our journey through architecture
What is your architecture story? Before you start on your journey as an architect, before you can truly find the…
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Design to Improve Life (DtIL) Workshop
The Index Project launches the ‘Design to Improve Life’ virtual workshop in partnership with the Design Center of the Philippines,…
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City of Tomorrow: 35 architecture ideas through the years
The story of architecture is the story of human civilization over the last 6,000 years. We have shaped and transformed…
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City of Tomorrow: A growing city
The three islands of the 419 hectare Horizon Manila project is planned to encompass a vast diversity of communities that…
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City of Tomorrow: Our city at risk
Brookside Hills Subdivision after Typhoon Ulysses —PHOTO BY ROY ALEJANDRO Floodwaters have been a constant part of life in Manila…
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City of Tomorrow: Building better communities for Manileños
Horizon Manila has three islands across the bay towards the skyline of Manila and vice versa. I’ve always had a…
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William Ti on CNN Philippines’ The Hoptimist
William Ti Jr., Principal Architect of WTA Architecture and Design Studio and the Emergency Quarantine Facilities get featured in CNN…
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City of Tomorrow: Smart, brilliant planning for our spaces
A walkable community Being an architect might make it seem as though building your own place would be a breeze….
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Gapay cites architecture firm for building COVID-19 isolation centers
Chief of Staff of the AFP, General Gilbert Gapay recognizes WTA in the Manila Bulletin article: Gabay cites architecture firm…
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AFP honors civilian partner in patient care center project
MANILA – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Wednesday honored its civilian partner who helped construct several emergency…
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A Sneak Peek At Manileño: The City Of Tomorrow
“God creates new people, but not new land,” is what Horizon Manila President JR Legazpi’s grandmother used to say whenever…