Wilson Architecture

Wilson Architecture was established as a professional architectural consultancy in 1985 and has since expanded to become one of the leading consultancies in the country. The practice is innovative and progressive, offering a comprehensive range of architectural services with acknowledged excellence in the fields of design, planning, project management and design team co-ordination. The practice provides an innovative and practical approach to our clients needs. We are dedicated to creative problem solving from the initial concept planning and development, through all phases of the project to completion. Our broad experience in the design of educational, commercial, industrial, sport/leisure and residential building types illustrates the diversity and success of the practice. We are also progressive in the design and construction of environmentally interactive and sustainable buildings. The practice has the resources necessary to carry out projects of any size, yet retains the continuity and the close personal attention of the principals in all aspects of its work. We operate effective management and cost control procedures and have considerable experience of operating within defined budgets. In addition to standard architectural services, we can also provide consultancy services in project management, architectural programming, development planning, landscape planning, urban design, interior design, health and safety planning for the workplace, environmentally interactive sustainable buildings and graphic presentation. We are committed to design excellence. Our proven record of completing projects on time and within budget demonstrates the success of our approach. We have established and maintained enduring client relationships through effective project management and co-ordination.

WKDA

WKDA is Hong Kong-based architecture practice led by principal Michael Wing C Kwok. WKDA is a registered architectural practice with the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, with a team comprised of professional architects, interior designers and surveyors. WKDA work’s focus is in alterations and additions works, renovations and rehabilitation, and interior design. WKDA operates as an open-minded design studio emphasizing critical thinking, design intuitions and open communications.
Creativity, imagination and free thinking are center to our values. Critical thinking helps substantiate the work WKDA produces, and provokes positive responses.
Through a creative, innovative and cross-disciplinary design approach, WKDA aims to build works that speak of our values, and embody a spirit that communicates.
This spirit is reflected in WKDA office’s culture, and make up of energetic and entrepreneurial minded individuals.
WKDA seizes every opportunity to explore the peculiarities in every given project, offering wide ranging solutions. Principal’s Background Mr. Michael Wing C Kwok currently leads our design team. He is both principal and chief design architect. He is a registered architect with the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, and received his M. Arch professional education at the Rhode Island School of Design, USA. Michael is also a part time lecturer teaching architectural design studios at Hong Kong City University. Both as a professional practitioner and an educator, he complements the practice through a fine balance of professionalism and academism, and helps maintain the design studio culture of the office.

WORK Architecture Company

WORK Architecture Company (WORKac) was founded in 2003. Based in New York, WORKac develops architectural and urban projects that engage culture and consciousness, nature and artificiality, surrealism and pragmatism.

WORKac is involved in projects at all scales, ranging from a masterplan for the new BAM cultural district in Brooklyn, to a single family villa in Inner Mongolia, China. Recent completed projects include the installation ‘Public Farm 1’ at PS1/MoMA and, the new headquarters for Diane von Furstenberg; current work includes the new Kew Gardens Hills Library in Queens, the extension of the Clark Art Institute at Mass MoCA, a new Children’s Museum for the Arts and the first Edible Schoolyard New York City with Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse Foundation. In addition, WORKac’s entry for the redesign of Hua Qiang Bei Road, Shenzhen, was recently awarded first place in an international competition.

In 2010, WORKac was awarded an Award for Excellence in Design from New York City’s Public Design Commission. In 2009, WORKac was honored at the White House as Finalist for a National Design Award. In 2008, the firm was identified by Icon Magazine as one of the 20 most-influential new architecture firms in the world, winning numerous awards, including several AIA Merit Awards, three “Best of” awards, and a MASterwork Award from the Municipal Arts Society.

The practice is supplemented by Dan Wood and Amale Andraos’s academic involvement. Together they teach at Princeton University, focusing on the relationship between ecology and urbanism. This research is the subject of their book ’49 Cities’, published in 2009 by the Storefront for Art and Architecture