Skyscraper vs. city heat: sustainable building in tropical megacities

Insights, Nachhaltige Wertschöpfung, Technologie
8/15/2018 Reading time: 1 minute(s)

A video report on the new building typology first used for the Oasia Hotel in Singapore

With the “Oasia Hotel Downtown” in Singapore, the architectural office WOHA is writing a new chapter in the book of urban planning: its green skyscraper allows this tropical megacity to breathe. In this Vontobel video interview, WOHA founder Wong Mun Summ describes his green building concept of the future, receiving high praise from Peter C. Schmal, the Director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum.