WAA

WAA is a dynamic, award winning international office for Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Urbanism. With over 30 years of experience, and operating from both its headquarters in Montreal, Canada and its subsidiary firm in Shanghai, China, WAA has established itself as a leading and innovative design office, tackling different types of projects of varying scales and complexities.
 
Responsible and Sustainable development, environmental and ecological design, as well as respect of local cultures, sites, and contexts are an intrinsic part of WAA’s guiding principles and concerns when approaching any design project.

The firm and its talented multi-disciplinary team of international designersare dedicated to continuously challenging ourselves to offer our cities successful, lasting, and durable public and private spaces.
Through research, dialogue, and strong conceptual designs, and through social and community involvements and activisms, we at WAA are constantly seeking to promote inhabitable design interventions and opportunities for potential users from all around the world and of different cultures…We design for people.
 
The WAA team is active in the following fields:
 

• Planning & Urban Design
• Residential, Recreational, Institutional, and Commercial development projects;
• Regional and Urban parks;
• Urban Plazas and Gardens.
• Public Space
• Landscape Urbanism
• Waterfronts
• Rehabilitation of Parks, water systems and neighborhoods.