Cover Lillian Tay is vice president of the award-winning Malaysian architecture and multi-disciplinary design practice, Veritas Design Group (Photo: Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia)
Lillian Tay is vice president of the award-winning Malaysian architecture and multi-disciplinary design practice, Veritas Design Group (Photo: Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia)
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The highest honour given by Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia on its corporate members, the PAM Gold Medal recognises design excellence resulting in the advancement of architecture
Last month, Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia (PAM) presented its coveted PAM Gold Medal to Veritas Design Group vice president Lillian Tay at PAM’s annual international architecture and design conference DATUM:KL 2023, in recognition of lifetime design achievement and excellence in a body of work, resulting in the advancement of architecture in Malaysia.
Presented to a PAM corporate member or a practice of PAM corporate members, the PAM Gold Medal is the highest honour bestowed by the organisation to honour individuals who have demonstrated architectural design excellence achieved through a body of work in architecture.
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Lillian Tay is the first woman in the organisation’s history to receive this award. In her role as vice president of the award-winning Malaysian architecture and multi-disciplinary design practice, Veritas Design Group, Tay leads the design team and is responsible for many award-winning buildings in Malaysia, including W Kuala Lumpur, Oxley Towers, Star Residences, and MRT stations at Muzium Negara, Pasar Seni, Stadium Merdeka and Bukit Bintang, among others.
From 2000 to 2001, Tay served as PAM’s vice president and editor of its official journal, Architecture Malaysia. Tay is an outspoken advocate for better gender representation in the male-dominated building and architecture industry, and is a sought-after speaker on architecture and urbanism at design seminars in Kuala Lumpur.
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Training as a civil engineer and architect, Tay obtained her Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Master of Architecture from Princeton University in 1990. From 2002 to 2015, she served as a council member of the Heritage Trust of Malaysia (Badan Warisan Malaysia), consistently advocating the conversation of urban architectural heritage in her hometown of Kuala Lumpur.
She also strongly supports the local arts scene and is the force behind the popular creative space, Temu House–which she repurposed from a 1960s bungalow that she purchased in Petaling Jaya in 2016.
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