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 When discussing architecture, Wong Mun Summ likes to reference “systems thinking” — a holistic form of organizational analysis that asks how systems act and influence one another within a larger system. It’s an approach that informs much of the work produced by WOHA, the much-laureled Singapore-based architectural studio Wong cofounded with Richard Hassell in 1994. His latest project, the 347-room (), is no exception in the way systems thinking is

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