Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo

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Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo
Company type Privately owned
Industry Architecture
Founded1945
Headquarters Irvine
Website www.watg.com

Wimberly, Allison, Tong & Goo, also known as WATG, is an architectural firm with offices in London, Singapore, Istanbul, Honolulu, Irvine, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and Chicago. [1] They have designed projects in 160 countries across six continents. [2]

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History

George ‘Pete’ Wimberly and Howard L. Cook started renovations on the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in 1945, and formed Wimberly and Cook in Honolulu, Hawaii. [3] In 1971, George Whisenand, Jerry Allison, Greg Tong and Don Goo joined Pete Wimberly; in 1988 the firm became Wimberly Allison Tong and Goo, also known as WATG. [4] [5]

As of 2014, WATG is owned by an Employee Benefit Trust. [6]

Recognition

WATG was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for its Tanjong Jara Beach Hotel and Rantau Abang Visitor Center in Terengganu, Malaysia. [7]

Notable projects

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References

  1. Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo (WATG), at Design Intelligence's Almanac of Architecture & Design 2014 Retrieved March 13, 2014
  2. Project: WATG – Wimberly, Allison, Tong & Goo at SwarmX; retrieved March 13, 2014
  3. Creating Hawai'i Tourism: A Memoir, by Robert C. Allen (p. 127-130); published 2004 by Bess Press (via Google Books
  4. Goo leaves architectural firm but keeps designing; by Kristen Consillio, at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin; published February 17, 2007; retrieved March 13, 2014
  5. The Rebranding of Wimberly, Allison, Tong & Goo; by Amanda Hurley; at Architect ; published March 14, 2008; retrieved March 13, 2014
  6. Nuttall, Graeme (6 April 2016). "WATG: Employee-Owned Through a Perpetual Trust". Fieldfisher. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  7. Tanjong Jara Beach Hotel, at the Aga Khan Development Network
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