Major Projects by TRHY

TR Hamzah and Yeang - Ken Yeang
Ken Yeang’s Work on Ecological Design
December 5, 2024
How Project Managers Balance Design Quality and Cost Control? – The Surveyor (1985)
December 9, 2024
Shenzhen Gangxia, China

Yeang has completed over 200 built projects since 1975. His benchmark buildings, projects and their innovations include:

  • The EDITT Tower (unbuilt) – Waterloo Road, Singapore – a 2ndn prize winner, EDITT competition.

The project has been published in over 30 international publications for its hirsute extensively-vegetated ramp façade and aesthetic.

  • The Roof Roof House – Selangor, Malaysia (1985) – an experimental climate-responsive house that rethought bioclimatic passive-mode low-energy building design.
  • Menara Mesiniaga Tower – Selangor, Malaysia (1992) – a climate-responsive tower that exemplifies Yeang’s key principles for ‘bioclimatic skyscraper’ design, and received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the RAIA (Royal Australian Institute of Architects) International Award, the Malaysian institute of Architects Design Award.
  • Kowloon Waterfront Masterplan – Hong Kong (c. 1998) – a green masterplan where Yeang developed the green eco infrastructure concept and the novel use of ‘eco cells’.
  • National Library – Singapore (2005) – a green library tower (120m) with large landscaped sky courts (40m high) that received the BCA Green Mark Platinum Award 2005, and the Singapore Institute of Architects Award.
  • SOMA Masterplan – Bangalore, India (2006) – a signature eco masterplan that espouses his innovative idea for eco city masterplanning as the integration of four eco infrastructures, with the use of eco bridges and eco undercrofts to enable an ecological nexus across the terrain.
  • DiGi Technical Office – Shah Alam, Malaysia (2010) – advances the idea of a ‘living’ eco wall as a nexus of greenery linking all the facades. It received the Malaysian Institute of Architects Design Award (Commendation, 2010) and Green Building Index Gold rating.
  • Solaris Tower – 1-north, Singapore (2010) [with CPG Consult]- with a 1.5 km long ‘Vertical Linear Park’ vegetated ramp that wraps itself around the tower’s façade, a diagonal light-shaft, automated glass-louvers roof over the atrium, rain-check walls at the ground floor, which received the Singapore Institute of Architects Award (2011), the Malaysian institute of Architects Gold Award 2011, the WACA (World Association of Chinese Architects) Gold Medal 2011 and BCA Green Mark Platinum rating.
  • Spire Edge Tower – (Gurgaon, Haryana, India), under construction with anticipated completion 2013, a signature tower that espouses the idea of a vertical green eco infrastructure, LEED Platinum rating.
  • Ganendra Art House – Petaling Jaya, Malaysia (2011) – Art Gallery with accommodation for live-in artist has an experimental ‘down-draft’ ventilating flue for enhancing comfort cooling, received the Malaysian Institute of Architects Design Award (Commendation) 2010, Green Building Index certification rating.
  • The Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital Extension Phase 1 (2011) [with Llewelyn Davies Yeang] – London, UK, BREEAM ‘excellent rating’
  • GyeongGi Development, Seoul, Korea (unbuilt) – habitat creation that exemplifies the use of a Biodiversity Matrix that makes the development into a total ‘living system’..
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