asian urban challenges go universal
People First
Planners look at maps, landscape designers look at plants, architects look at buildings.
We look at things from your perspective, walking through the living spaces of the city.
Our team design from the inside outward, understanding what the ultimate users’ need and want in and between responsibly developed buildings.
When we put people first, urban spaces can be successful as measured by everyday use, not by how pretty their plans look on a wall.
Designs are conceptualized at the ground-level, and everyday behaviours of moving through space shape our ideas.
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sustainability
Responsibility in design comes not only from applying the latest energy-saving technologies, and innovation in mobility but focusing on understanding how simple, flexible frameworks that inspire people to build a society on their own, generation after generation.
Our approach invites market-driven economic opportunity and a social sense of ownership, on top of ensuring that the underlying ecosytems of a place function well. Some call it triple-bottom-line,we call it simple and obvious.
our studio
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our people
Our Studios are in San Francisco, Hong Kong, and now in Saigon. From these locations, we can bring the best in magnificent local culture and talent together with a powerful international legacy – to maximize the creative input to the design process and render the best solutions to our most important collaborators – our clients.
The “Studio” can be your collaborative way of life – a way to create a new legacy and make a difference in this vibrant time of change for Asia. The idea of “Studio” can be traditionally associated with a style of workplace that fosters collaboration. Today, a team of high-level professionals has re-interpreted this concept as “a way of life – a collaborative way of design.”
The people of Studio make up a collaborative network of diversified urban designers, planners, landscape architects, and architects. Studio’s three principals have a collective total of over 60 years of experience in the profession, and come together from a wide range of experience around the world.
