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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!

  • Awards

    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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  • Publications

    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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  • Publications

    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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  • Publications

    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 Horizon Manila Gold Winner
    Awards

    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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  • Projects

    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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  • Publications

    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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  • Awards

    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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  • Media

    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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  • Publications

    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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  • Publications

    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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  • WAFX 2021 overall winner Horizon Manila by WTA
    Horizon Manila,Master Planning,Projects

    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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  • Kanto Announces Horizon Manila winner of WAFX 2021
    Horizon Manila,Media

    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 Wins WAFX
    Horizon Manila,Media

    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 wins WAFX 2021
    Horizon Manila,Media

    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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  • EQF Wins B1M Construction Story of the Year 2021
    Projects

    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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  • Publications

    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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  • Emergency Quarantine Facilities_WTA Architecture and Design Studio
    Projects

    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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  • Publications

    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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  • Publications

    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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  • Emergency Quarantine Facilities
    Awards,Practice

    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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  • Emergency Quarantine Facility (EQF) at the Manila Naval Hospital, Quezon City
    Media

    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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  • Horizon Manila
    Awards,Master Planning,Practice

    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
    Projects

    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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  • Publications

    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
    Media

    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_BluPrint_WTA Architeacture and Design Studio
    Media,Practice

    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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  • Publications

    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 the Asia Pacific Property award
    Projects

    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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  • Steel and bleacher frame section construction update for the FEM Stadium
    Projects

    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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  • BCI Asia Top 10 Architects 2020/2021 WTA Architecture and Design Studio William Ti, Jr.
    Awards,Practice

    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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  • THE mixed-use planned community brings forth a greener, healthier and future-ready Manila.
    Projects

    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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  • Perspective of Horizon Manila’s Central Park created by WTA Architecture + Design Studio.
    Media

    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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  • WTA Residential project, Twelve Luxury Flats, in San Juan features the practicality of vertical living meets the comfort of an urban townhouse.
    Projects

    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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  • Villa Borghese Gardens, Rome
    Publications

    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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  • Horizon East Church of the Crossroads is located at Horizon Manila
    Publications

    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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  • Manila skyline from the Twelve Luxury Flats
    Publications,Research

    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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  • CONFERENCE ACC 2021 | Lecture 01 | William Ti Junior - WTA Architecture and Design Studio thumbnail
    Lectures

    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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  • Community Street Park for every barangay
    Publications,Research

    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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  • Archinesia Article Cover for Anthology Festival 2021 with Sou Fojimoto
    Events,Practice

    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 Architecture and Design Festival Poster
    Events

    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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  • The Garden City, by WTA Architecture and Golden Bay Land Holdings, conceptualizes the use of open areas as gardens with vertically-stacked residential units with greenery hanging vertically through architectural elements.
    Projects

    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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  • Drone shot of the Twelve Luxury Flats building by WTA Design Studio
    Projects,Publications

    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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  • Publications

    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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  • ARCHINESIA "MAKNA 2020 & ASA 2021" invited friends of ARCHINESIA; speakers, speakers, moderators, in Indonesia, and several ASEAN countries to share about what 2020 means for self, work, profession, and industry, as well as what are the hopes in 2021, for 12 hours alternately.
    Events,Lectures

    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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  • Anthology is a festival that brings together architects and designers, policy makers and advocates, to shine a spotlight on our built environment.
    Master Planning,Publications

    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 on the Building Design WA 100 2021 list
    Practice

    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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  • WTA Architecture + Design Studio’s C3 Residence is a collection of three inward-looking villas that together form central courtyard pool.
    Publications

    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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  • The Narrow House by BAAD Studio augments a narrow facade of less than 7 meters wide, using a stainless steel wire cloth system for maximum airflow exchange and safe security control for the resident.
    Homes,Publications,Residential

    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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  • The Nest by WTA seeks to create a visual connection between road networks and pedestrian paths to encourage exploration of the surrounding scenery and vista and introduce a new perspective of Laguna de Bay.
    Publications

    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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  • Horizon Manila is a reclamation project in Pasay. Manileno is the design concept for the urban planning of the development.
    Projects

    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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  • Ginebra Ako Awards - Lalaban ako - Emergency Quarantine Facility Team - WTA
    Practice

    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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  • Ginebra Ako Awards - Lalaban Ako Award
    Practice

    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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  • The Book Stop Project located in Plaza Roma, Intramuros is a pop up library
    Institutional,Publications

    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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  • How to Design to Improve Life Workshop by The Index Project in Partnership with Design Center of the Philippines
    Events,Practice,Research

    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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  • Roman Architecture - The Colosseum of Rome
    Publications

    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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  • Horizon Manila - The three islands of the 419 hectare Horizon Manila project is planned to encompass a vast diversity of communities that all function together as a complete city
    Publications

    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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  • Brookside Hills Subdivision after Typhoon Ulysses —PHOTO BY ROY ALEJANDRO
    Publications

    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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  • Horizon Manila has three islands across the bay towards the skyline of Manila and vice versa.
    Publications

    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 and EQF featured in CNN Philippines' The Hoptimist
    Media

    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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  • Commercial Concept design for a walkable community
    Publications

    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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  • Lt. Gen. Gilbert Gapay (PHILIPPINE ARMY / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
    Media

    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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  • PARTNERS IN COVID-19 RESPONSE. William Tan Ti Jr. (left), the principal architect of WTA Architecture and Design Studio, receives a plaque of appreciation from AFP Chief of Staff, Gen. Gilbert Gapay (center), in a ceremony in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City on Wednesday (Oct. 28, 2020). The WTA Architecture and Design Studio was the lead company that designed and initiated the construction of emergency quarantine facilities in military and government health institutions in response to the Covid-19 outbreak. (Photo courtesy of the AFP Public Affairs Office)
    Practice

    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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  • Aerial View of New Horizon Manila, a reclamation project proposal along the coast of Manila Bay
    Media

    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…

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