LATEST NEWS LATEST NEWS MARCH 2005 Assyafaah Mosque featured at the Singapore Evening in London on 15 March Themed as SingaporeEdge, the Singapore Evening took place in London from 25 February to 5 April 2005. FEBRUARY 2005 IDC/Nippon Paint "Colour My World" Design Excellence Award 2004 JANUARY 2005 International Architects' Salon (IAS) 2005 Award Kok Hiang seen here with Mr Bernard Tschumi, who inaugurated the event Kok Hiang is awarded the IAS 2005 Award for Innovative Architecture. Held on 19 January in Beijing, China, the award is administered independantly by a non-profit group International Architects' Salon. It is awarded to emerging professionals who have shown and contributed significantly towards the advancement of either architectural, urban or built environment in his/her country. DECEMBER 2004 Architecture+ Awards 2004 Forum Architect is awarded Best Project in the 'Public, Arts > Culture' category (Assyafaah Mosque) by the Architecture+ Awards 2004. Master Jury citation: "A courageous design solution for one of the most traditional building types that has little developed over the centuries. Convention is challanged and the resultant architecture materfully responds to the culture and context". Cityscape / Architectural Review Awards 2004 Assyafaah Mosque - Commendable Award in Category: Community Assyafaah Mosque on cover of Architecture+ (Dec 2004: Vol. 07) Shaping Singapore Exihibition, URA (4 December 2004 - 26 March 2005) A video of Kok Hiang's talk, entitled 'Being Building' was shown at the Shaping Singapore Exihibition. The event was inaugurated by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. NOVEMBER 2004 Assyafaah Mosque on cover of Hinge (Nov 2004: Vol. 113) OCTOBER 2004 Speaker at UIA Regional Forum 27-28 October 2004, Biopolis Singapore SEPTEMBER 2004 Assyafaah Mosque on cover of NiHao (Sept 2004: No.9 - Vol. 63) AUGUST 2004 Assyafaah Mosque at Venice Architecture Biennale September 2004 On 13 Aug, the Organisers of the Singapore Pavillion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2004 announced that Assyafaah Mosque would be one of the 15 projects to be showcased in the Singapore Pavillion in Venice in September 2004. aForum Design Consultants Sdn Bhd In August 2004, Forum Architects incorporated a Malaysian company, aForum Design Consultants Sdn Bhd in Kuala Lumpur. JULY 2004 PAM Awards Masterjury Kok Hiang accepted an invitation to be on the masterjury for the PAM Architectural Award 2004. Judging will be in July and August. JUNE 2004 PAM Lecture Color Bond Design Lecture Series Kuala Lumpur 26 June 2004 Kok Hiang was invited to give talk to Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia (PAM) members in June 2004. The talk centred on three aspects central of Forum's work: Ornamentation, Organic-ity and Transcendance. Using slides from the recently completed Assyafaah Mosque in Singapore, Kok Hiang elaborated on aspects of Transcendance which included Open-ness (breaking away from conditioned living), Attention (Quiet) and Nature (Acceptance). These aspects were also th subject of a short twenty minute talk which Kok Hiang gave at the Urban Redevelopment Authority 20 Under 45 Talks in April 2004, entitled Being, Building.