JOHOR BAHRU, 12 November 2016 – Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) won the Gold Award for Best University/College at the National level Nippon Paint Asian Young Designers Award (AYDA) 2016 open to all IPTAs and IPTSs.
There are four categories of award including Students Architecture Award, Students Interior Design Award, Emerging Professional Architecture Award and Emerging Professional Interior Design Award.
Altogether there were over 1,000 entries including from all major architecture schools like UM, USM, UPM, UKM, Taylors etc.
Twelve entries were short listed for each category. Out of the 12 for Architecture Award, seven were from UTM. Three from UTM BSc Architecture and four from MSc Arch. Four of our students won both honourable mentions- Nursyazana binti Khalil mentored by Dr Sharifah Salwa, and Yeow Yan Hearng mentored by En Azari, the silver award by Ooi Soon Theng mentored by Dr Khairul and gold award by David Nee mentored by Assoc Prof. Dr Abd Halim Hussein.
