Think WTA
Based in Manila, Philippines, WTA Architecture and Design Studio is recognized as one of the Top 10 Architectural Firms in the Philippines as cited by BCI Asia. The studio a multidisciplinary group of young and idealistic architects and interior designers, and urban planners and engineers. Furthermore, the office participates in a wide range of design activities with a focus in socially relevant designs geared towards beautifying Manila and building a better city. We focus on finding solutions for the dichotomy of big and small projects, and simple and complex ideas. We put emphasizes on ideas and the design process wherein programs are broken down and evolved. Moreover, creating designs that are projected towards the surrounding community and city.
To date, WTA has worked on luxury residences and condominium towers suburban mass and housing and skyscrapers, branch offices and corporate headquarters, dormitories and luxury hotels, retail shops and shopping center. This time-condensed wide range of expenses has allowed us to explore and anticipate the urban trends and growth patterns in our city. Our projects continue to explore the possibilities for the city of tomorrow and to develop exciting new ideas for how we live, work and enjoy in our built environment.
Awards and Recognition
WTA Architecture and Design Studio
2022 BCI Asia Top 10 Architecture Firms in the Philippines
2021 Building Design World Architecture Top 100 – the big list
2021 UAP Bayanihan Arkitektura Awards
2021 BCI Asia Top 10 Architecture Firms in the Philippines
2020 BCI Asia Top 10 Architecture Firms in the Philippines
2018 BCI Asia Top 10 Architecture Firms in the Philippines
2015 BCI Asia Top 10 Architecture Firms in the Philippines
William Ti Jr.
2021 UAP Bayanihan Arkitektura Awards – Individual Category
2019 The Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards –
Outstanding Category
2017 SIA-Getz Architecture Prize Award, Nominee
Batangas Forest City
2022 Design Studio Mag (DSM) Award (Urban Design Category)
2022 Iconic Awards – Innovative Architecture – Best of Best
2022 World Architecture Festival Finalist (Master Planning Category)
Catbalogan City Hall
2022 Architecture and Design Collection Awards – Gold Winner (Institutional Architecture Category)
BSP Security Plant Complex
2022 World Architecture Festival Finalist (Competition Entries Category)
Horizon Manila
2021 World Architecture Festival WAFX Overall Winner
2021 World Architecture Festival Finalist (Water Category)
Emergency Quarantine Facility Team
2021 B1M Construction Story of the Year
2020 Ginebra Ako Awards Year 3: Lalaban Ako Award
The East Grid
2019 Architectural Conceptual Design Contest for the Diliman Property (PSALM)
El Museo del Prado en Filipinas
2018 Architizer’s A+ Award Winner Cultural-Museum Popular Choice
2017 World Architecture Festival Finalist
Twelve Luxury Flats
2021-2022 Asia Pacific Property Awards-
Architecture Multiple Residence for Philippines
Garden City Cavite
2020 Outstanding Property Award for Property Development: Mixed-use Category
The Book Stop Project
2019 Green Good Design Award for Place Making: Public Architecture
2019 Design Anthology Winner –
Cultural, Arts & Educational Spaces Category
2018 German Design Award,
Excellent Communications Design Architecture
2018 Haligi ng Dangal – People’s Choice Award Nominee
2017 Architizer A+ Awards Winner – Institutional-Libraries
Jury and Popular Choice
2016 WAN Awards Finalist
2016 World Architecture Festival Finalist – Small Projects
2016 American Architecture Prize, Honorable Mention
The Chapel of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica
2017 World Architecture Festival Finalist
One Mall Valenzuela
2017 World Architecture Festival Finalist
Courtyard City
2016 Xuanxi North Competition Beijing
Shortlist
The Urban Block
2015 World Architecture Festival Finalist
Sousveillance
2013 Archstoyanie Competition Moscow Winner
Vauxhall Kinection
Social Architecture
We believe in architecture that creates communities. Social architecture allows us to practice our idea that humanity’s story must, more and more, be socially inclusive than selectively exclusive. This philosophy operates more in the manner of discovery and exploration, rather than breakthroughs and invention. It gears us to create a gentler and more harmonious pace of societal development than the peaks and trough’s of triumphalist achievement.














