Mel Soong studied architecture at the University of New South Wales and graduated in October 1989. He joined Peddle Thorp Architects even prior to his graduation and worked at the World Square project site in downtown Sydney until his return to Kuala Lumpur in January 1990. He set up ARKITEK M E L, a sole proprietorship practice in September 1994 and has had acquired and participated in a wide ran
ge of commissions, culminating in extensive collaboration even to-date with the multinational hypermarket player, Carrefour. Mel’s recent involvement with numerous outreach programmes has also taken his studio to the city state of Singapore, Bhutan, Nepal and right through to the Indian sub-continent, all of which provides invaluable experience in Tibetan Buddhist architecture, way of life and spirituality. Mel intentionally maintains the practice on a small scale with the belief of personal involvement at all levels of a project as a service to the client. This core value still continues to form the basis of ARKITEK M E L’s philosophy.
