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September 11, 2018
World Economic Forum
Designing Cities 4.0 at The World Economic Forum on ASEAN
Alongside Janil Puthucheary, Senior Minister of State for Transport, Communications and Information of Singapore, Nguyen Thien Nhan, Deputy Primie Minister of Viet Nam, Markus Lorenzini, CEO and President of Siemens Asia, and Yasu Ota of Nikkei, Rebecca Plaza shares her two cents on designing cities for the future as the only female on the panel.
June 3, 2018
Business World
She was called ‘hija’ in the boardroom. Now she handles 40 people
Rebecca Plaza, the 27-year-old founder and managing director of architectural firm Plaza + Partners, Inc., was about to move to Hong Kong from U.K. to apprentice under her “idol,” starchitect Rem Koolhas in 2014.
October 31, 2017
People Asia
Design Philosophy
With numerous building and development projects going on nationwide, the landscape of the country is continually changing -- malls and condominium buildings are taking over the city skylines new roads are being paved to make way for more cars, and new reosrts and hotels are beginning to line the coast.
July 5, 2017
Lifestyle Asia
Lifestyle Asia Game Changers: Have You Met these 30 Millennials Making a Difference in the World?
Rebecca, or Rica to her friends, always knew she wanted to be an architect. Her grandfather was in the cement industry and both her parents were developers. Growing up in that environment, she knew her calling lay in the path of creating buildings and landmarks from scratch.
August 15, 2018
Lifestyle Asia
Lifestyle Asia’s New Coffee Table Book “Millennials. Travel. Entertaining.” is Now Available on Bookstands
Each year, Lifestyle Asia releases a coffee table book to capture what “living at its finest” truly means. The first series, entitled Home & Away, visited the dwellings of Manila’s discriminating bunch both in the Philippines and abroad.
July 30, 2017
The Philipine Star
A game changer in architecture
In November 2016, 26-year old Rebecca Plaza won the gold medal in the architecture catergory and the title of Asia's Young Designer at the 2016 Asia Young Design Award (AYDA). Her winning piece, "Project Noah", is an architectural study for a drug rehabilitation center with a farming facility which is representative of ther penchant for using her creative talent to hatch
January 16, 2017
Business Mirror
Future architects and interior designers awarded
THE prestigious Asia Young Designer Award (AYDA), on its third year, just concluded recently with the theme “Be Bold, Be Free, Be You”. The gold winner, who will represent the country in Indonesia, was awarded to Maria Rebecca Plaza from National University with the design “Project Noah”.
February 26, 2018
World Architecture Community
Anthology Architecture Festival 2018 Discussed Social Architecture With Top Design Professionals
Anthology Architecture and Design Festival 2018 has brought together top architecture and design professionals from all over the world in search of developing an architecture that promotes a network of inclusive barrier-free spaces that engage communities and their people with the theme Social Architecture.
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