Designing the Manileño dream

Philip Cu Unjieng

May 30, 2021

Not many will contradict me if I say that the works of fantasy writer Neil Gaiman and sci-fi legend Isaac Asimov are especially noteworthy for their world-building, for conjuring up a specific universe that we are happy to be transported to time and time again. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that these are the two favorite authors of William Ti Jr., principal architect at WTA Architecture + Design Studio.

WTA’s Ti is behind the masterplan development of Horizon Manila; and going beyond the pages of his go-to writers, he’s responsible for the blueprint of the tri-island community that would rise from the murky depths of Manila Bay, and be part of a bright Manileño future. That’s futuristic, three-dimensional world-building of its own order!

For Ti, working with JBros Construction Corporation has been a true pleasure. “It’s rare to find a client with the same vision and aspirations, and even rarer to find one willing to carry this out. Throughout our partnership, it has consistently been about how we could make the project better. In the end, that’s all we can wish for in any project — designing the best.”