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NIPPON PAIN announces the winners of AYDA 2018
KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 6): Malaysian winners of the Asia Young Designer Award 2018 (AYDA 2018) will be representing the country to compete with winners from 14 geographical locations across Asia for the title of Asia Young Designer of the Year 2018/19.
The two winners announced in a ceremony on Dec 5 were Loo Yi from Universiti Malaya (UM) and Zachary Khaw Lit Siang from Taylor’s University. They won the Gold Awards for the Architecture and Interior Design categories respectively, having beaten 1,260 other entries to the annual interior design and architecture competition this year. AYDA 2018 was jointly organised by Nippon Paint Malaysia and IJM Land Bhd.
Loo and Khaw will take their winning projects to Singapore in March 2019 to compete against winners from Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam and strive to win a 6-week all-expenses-paid design programme at the Harvard Graduate School of Design

