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student Imran bin Tajuddeen was awarded Jeffrey Cook
Award for the author for the best paper in IASTE
Conference.
He
wrote a paper on 'Culture' and Tourism Imagery for the
Malay-Indonesian Districts of Singapore. The paper is
concerned with the subject of traditional dwellings and
settlements in a manner that challenges traditional
scholarship on the subject and engages spatial analysis from
an interdisciplinary perspective.
Industrial
Design student Brian Chuan Chai Law won the 2nd
prize in the Electrolux
Design Lab Award 2006
for his Organic Cook portable cooking unit, which
uses high-efficiency radiant energy to cook without fat when
frying, grilling or broiling.
Hundreds of other design
students from 37 countries around the world entered this
year's competition and were challenged to seek solutions that
promote healthy eating habits for the 2016 consumer. |
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November |
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Design student Tan Yong Kai won the top 20 iF concept
award product 2007. 530 entries from 32 countries were
received and only the top 20 will get an award. iF is one of
the top design awards from the commercial design world and
Yong Kai's winning entry will be published in the iF design
year book as well.
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Visiting Fellow Mr Carlos Alberto Montana
Hoyos was selected as one of the
10 most influential Colombian designers and
architects in 2006. |
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Industrial Design student Lim
Sun Liang was honored with the Red-Dot: Luminary.
This award is only conferred onto a single most exceptional
entry from each of the three submission entrants, i.e. student,
professional and company. Lian He Zao Bao's report.
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September |
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Architecture alumni
Lui Honfay is one of the top prize winner for the URA
Marina Bay Bridge competition. His winning design will be
realised on the bridge itself, the only art project which is
featured. The rest of the art works will be showcased in the art
park. |
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August |
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Architecture students featured in
NUS Knowledge Enterprise. |
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July |
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Architecture students
Lui Honfay
and Jasmine Chan won First Prize in the open category of this
year's Singapore Gifts
and Promotional Product Design Awards (GAPP). |
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One group of
Industrial Design students won the Bronze prize of the 2006
Liteon Awards, and another two groups of students won The Panel
of Judges Special Awards. The details of the design and
students' names are as follows:
Bronze Award:
Seek Slider, designed by SIOW Mei Yee and CHEN Wenshan
The Panel of Judges Special Awards:
Soundtouch, designed by Victor ONG and Joanna LIM
Music
Rack, designed by NGAN Han Siong and Yong Yingxuan
There were 1661 entries for this year competition and the
entries can be viewed on the Award’s
website.
The submission projects are collaborated with Nakamichi. |
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Industrial Design students Gabriel
Tan and Wendy Chua was awarded a Bronze prize in the Industiral
Design Excellence Awards 2006 (IDEA).
The Industrial Design Excellence Awards are dedicated to
fostering business and public understanding of the importance of
industrial design excellence to the quality of life and the
economy. Winning the IDEA is a distinction like no other that
brands your design as the very best in the business, among your
peers, among your clients, among consumers around the world.
Sponsored by BusinessWeek and judged independently by the
Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the contest is
one of the most important of its kind. The National University
of Singapore is the only winner outside the USA in the Student
Category.
The work can be found in the IDSA and Businessweek
website.
This work was also the winner of Electrolux Lab Award in 2005.
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June |
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SARA-NY 2006
It is unprecedented that Architecture students from NUS win
awards of the highest honour at the SARA Student Design Awards.
Also unprecedented is the fact that five awards were won by NUS
students this year. Top awardees from the SARA competitions in
previous years hailed from universities such as Harvard
University, Princeton University, the City College of New York,
Georgia Institute of Technology and Oklahoma State University.
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Vertical
University: Rethinking a New SMU - Award of Excellence
1st Place |
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Tan Szue
Hann |
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School of Horology -
Award of Excellence
1st Place |
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Social Housing in Myanmar
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Award of Merit
2nd Place |
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School
of Acupuncture - Award of Honor
3rd Place |
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Resettled Ho Chi Minh City - Award of Honor
3rd Place
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In this regard, the awards won in 2006 puts NUS in the same
standing as some of the top American universities.
Information on SARA
The Society of American Registered Architects (SARA) was founded
in 1956 as a professional society that includes the
participation of all architects, regardless of their roles in
the architectural community. SARA follows the Golden Rule and
supports the concept of profitable professionalism for its
members.
SARA has 11 Councils in 8 states, including the New York
Council, which organised the SARA NY 2006 Design Awards.
SARA is similar to many other organizations. It caters to a
special interest group - in this case, practising architects. It
responds to their concerns and seeks to address issues that
affect them, the environment and society as a whole.
For more information, please visit the following websites:
http://www.sara-national.org
http://www.sarany.org |
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May |
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Industrial Design
students Eugene's and Yong Kai's winning iF Concept Award 2006
design was featured on
the 21st May issue of Sunday Time's Lifestyle section. |
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April |
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Architecture student
Lui Honfay was selected as winner for the international
CEBI Design Competition. He won the 1st prize for the leg
category which is a competition to design home fittings: door
handle, legs, hook and handle button.
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March |
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International Idea
Competition on Urban Design/Architecture/Landscape Design.
Revitalization of Gwangbok Street and PIFF Plaza, Busan, South
Korea.
3rd Prize Winner: ‘The Urban Cinema’
Submitted by Archiland Consultant International, with Mr Low
Boon Liang. |
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Three Industrial Design students
and one Industrial Design alumni entries were selected as
Excellent Works in the International Design Competition Osaka
2005. International Design Competition Osaka is one of the most
prestigious design awards globally. KITA-san was the previous
chairman of this competition.
The theme of this competition was " E N E R G Y ". A total of
889 entries from up-coming young designers and planners of 44
countries and regions around the world were received. Due to
rigorous examination by experts, 67 excellent works were
selected with the subject of the business matchmaking.
Detailed information can be found here.
The detailed information of our Excellent Works are as follows:
Title: GLO- Ecofriendly
Tracking Poles
Proposal: Design illustration of the product, Concept, Technical
and Sustainable design explanation.
Creator: Law Chuan Chai and other co-producer (3rd year ID)
Title: Owl's Chair
Proposal: A chair that amplifies sound without electronics.
Creator: Lin Wei Liang (final year ID)
Title: Gras
Proposal: Gras's inspiration is from nature, using plants to
purify rainwater, providing an outdoor water source.
Creator: Priscilla Lui (Final year ID)
Title: E-Sign
Proposal: E-sign constantly reminds people the water,
electricity and gas that has been consumed each day
Creator: Tithima Supavanichyanont (ID Alumni) |
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We are pleased to announce that the
students of the Department of Architecture have done extremely
well at the 2006 Singapore Furniture Design Competition by
securing all the top prizes in the Student's Category, & the
majority of the share of 6 awards given out. Our congratulations
to:
Low
Lin Kiat (ID 3) - 1st Prize
Lui Hon Fay (MArch) - 2nd Prize
Lionel Wong (ID 2) - 3rd Prize
Chen Xi (ID 4) - Merit Award |
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February |
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Industrial Design students Chin Yit Sheng, Eugene and Tan Yong
Kai bag iF Concept Award Material 2006. A prestigious trademark
for outstanding design, an iF award is a symbol of commitment to
innovation and a willingness to face the competition. This
international competition had 639 entries from over 33 nations
this year and only 14 entries has been honored the iF Award.
The "iF Design Award" is one of four most prestigious annually
design awards ( iF Award、Red Dot Award、G-Mark Award、and IDEA)
recognized by the industries worldwide. It is often referred to
as the "Design Oscars" by industries worldwide. Since its
inauguration in 1953, the iF Design Award has existed as an
enduring and prestigious trademark for outstanding design.
Companies and design studios deploy the iF seal in their
communication campaigns as a visible symbol of product and
service quality. And for buyers of design-oriented products, the
iF seal serves as a decision-making tool in the marketplace.
iF Concept Award material offers university students from around
the world a chance to gain public exposure. It is particularly
conducive to young designers' accumulating important new
experience in developing materials, material applications and
product ideas to stay in touch with the latest developments in
society and the economy.
Eugene's and Yong Kai's winning design can be found
here. |
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4 of
our final year Industrial Design students's works have been
selected as Top 20 Overall Entries for the 2005 International
Photoreal Furniture Design Competition!
This competition is all about designers creating cutting edge
computer assisted (or 'photoreal') furniture designs; and their
reflection in the tangible world may be evident if these
products make it to market. The 4 students are :
Lin Weizheng, Cici Chen, Victor Ong and Chin Yit Sheng, Eugene.
See their winning designs
here. |
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January |
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Architecture
student Loo Lie Chuan won the Merit Award for Design Competition
in China.
This is the
first architectural design competition for university students
in China organised by Gemdale in the later part of 2005, one of
the major real estate developer in China. There was a total of
113 entries from 21 universities, including all the Chinese
universities famous for their school of architecture such as
Tsinghua University, Tongji University, South East University,
Chongqing University, Zhejiang University, Tienjing University, Haerbin
Technological University etc.
A total of ten awards are given
out, 1 gold award, 2 silver awards, 3 bronze awards and 4 merit
awards. Lie Chuan won this award while he was on Student Exchange
Programme together with two students from Tsinghua University. |
