Arkitek M E L

Arkitek M E L We produce works which are good with lasting architectural merits whilst delivering affordable design solutions which will also meet future challenges.

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.

今年的农历新年特别不一样无法回家乡吃团圆饭和父母亲戚朋友庆祝新年。放松别担心游子限制是暂时的。我们都可以很快过上正常的生活。这春节给了我们一个提醒寒冷的冬天一定会过去。春天花开花香的时候一定会再来。吃得苦看得开有的爱心通通都行了。。。
13/02/2021

今年的农历新年特别不一样无法回家乡吃团圆饭和父母亲戚朋友庆祝新年。放松别担心游子限制是暂时的。我们都可以很快过上正常的生活。这春节给了我们一个提醒寒冷的冬天一定会过去。春天花开花香的时候一定会再来。吃得苦看得开有的爱心通通都行了。。。

From the post-war modernist architecture centred within Ueno Park, I took a trip back in time at Ueno Sakuragi Atari (wh...
10/02/2021

From the post-war modernist architecture centred within Ueno Park, I took a trip back in time at Ueno Sakuragi Atari (which lies only a short walk from both the Ueno and Nippori Stations) to experience the unique shopping and lunching opportunity within Tokyo’s old downtown (下町/Sh*tamachi) embellished with picture-perfect old world architectural charm of yesteryear, 1938 to be exact. Numerous establishments were saved from development here and duly re-purposed within the old Yanaka neighbourhood to inject new life which manifests in the form of:
• Kayaba Bakery (of the Kayaba Coffee fame) offers freshly-baked breads to be selected from an array of crispy, hard-crusted bread as well as soft, Japanese-style breads like anpan (a fluffy roll filled with sweet red bean paste) and cream-filled sweet baked goods;
• OshiOlive specialises in gourmet salts and olive oils with a cafe shop front to place order for original drinks such as the Amazake Blossom Sakura or even an olive latte; and
• Yanaka Beer Hall affords original craft beers.
As Yanaka is known as a hangout for artists it would be a missed opportunity not to drop-by the creative house, SCAI The Bathhouse, a contemporary art gallery transformed from a former bathhouse with over 200 years of history! Of course the expedition would not have been complete without prayers offered at various shrines located within the sacred grounds of Kaneiji, Tahoin and Tennoji Temples as well as Yanaka Reien (literally "Yanaka Spirit Park").

Monday blue sets in (exactly a year and a week ago) when you are unable to explore the only body of work created by the ...
03/02/2021

Monday blue sets in (exactly a year and a week ago) when you are unable to explore the only body of work created by the master architect Le Corbusier in Japan (due to weekly on premise maintenance work). The National Museum of Western Art (NMWA) located within Ueno Park, Tokyo demonstrates Le Corb’s “Five Points for a New Architecture” which he had expounded in 1926 when he incorporated construction materials and methods whilst implementing design concepts in order to create structures to enhance the wellbeing of inhabitants and to accommodate their lifestyle. The declaration of five basic tenets that he had conceived made up the new architecture which consisted of:
1. Pilotis, 2. Rooftop Garden, 3. Free Floor Plan (Flat Surface), 4. Horizontal Oblong Windows and 5. Free Facade.
Three apprentices of Le Corbusier, Kunio Maekawa, Junzo Sakakura and Takamasa Yoshizaka also collaborated with the maestro to design and realised the building which was officiated in 1959. The premise has closed since 19 Oct 2020 and shall remain shut until the museum facilities upgrade works are completed when NMWA is scheduled to reopen in the spring of 2022.

25/01/2021

唐装和旗袍不会老土, 只要用创新和年轻的想法来讲故事就行吧。

Finally completed the Herculean task to archive the office’s entire project files, approved building plans, tender & con...
17/01/2021

Finally completed the Herculean task to archive the office’s entire project files, approved building plans, tender & construction drawings and other paraphernalia collected since 1990 when I commenced practising architecture in Kuala Lumpur upon returning from Sydney. This amazing collection of diaries cm logbooks of studio office + site + travel + personal journal afford recollections and insights of day-to-day musings, thoughts, experiences and aspirations for the last three decades ...

For the first posting to greet 2021, let's welcome a young lad's narrative and venture to Pittwater waterway, a semi-mat...
06/01/2021

For the first posting to greet 2021, let's welcome a young lad's narrative and venture to Pittwater waterway, a semi-matured tide dominated drowned valley estuary of the Northern Beaches some 30 kms north of metropolitan Sydney. Compared to years past, 2020 has been different and challenging in all aspects. The travelling spirit cannot be subdued too long and the chance to explore and re-discover shall kick start soon hopefully. What better way to aspire than to reminisce even though this journey is one undertaken almost thirty two years ago. Keep searching for creative ways to relax and unwind and most of all, keep well + stay safe always ...

Definitely no Monday blue during the last working week of 2020. Time really flew past this round and the occasion almost...
28/12/2020

Definitely no Monday blue during the last working week of 2020.
Time really flew past this round and the occasion almost slipped past our thoughts.
This studio remembers happily and looks ahead to reaching our third decade of practice.
Happy Merry 2021 ...

A blast from the past exactly thirty two ( yes, 32 !!!) summers ago today when work mates from the Banquet Department of...
18/12/2020

A blast from the past exactly thirty two ( yes, 32 !!!) summers ago today when work mates from the Banquet Department of The Regent Sydney (now Four Seasons Hotel) were treated to an early X'mas harbour cruise around Sydney Harbour. Australia had commemorated their bicentennial in 1988 and I remember enrolled for the final year of my undergraduate programme at the School of Architecture in University of New South Wales. Enjoyed the amazing afternoon of sun, surf and plenty of hair then, filled with festivities, merry holiday making and sheer fun, hohoho ...
TGIF.

Not being aware of a gazetted public holiday last Friday meant business-as-usual in the studio office with the annual sp...
14/12/2020

Not being aware of a gazetted public holiday last Friday meant business-as-usual in the studio office with the annual spring cleaning concluded when coordinator Fiqah from PAM Resource Centre collected the second bundle of periodicals and reference books. Several more will be despatched to the Sungai Long campus with each of the student in the Department of Architecture and Sustainable Design to receive a copy when we return to kick start Studio Six in the new trimester on 19 Jan 2021. The exercise had turned out also to be a personal nostalgic expedition of vetting materials to be deployed which ranged from hand drawn sketches, site layout, farewell card right through to acrylic painted interpretation of architectural theories. Some works were created more than thirty years !
TGIF ...

Trungkerla Tashi Delek Kyabje LamaZopa Rinpoche. Sarva Mangalam Bhavatu. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
03/12/2020

Trungkerla Tashi Delek
Kyabje Lama
Zopa Rinpoche.
Sarva Mangalam
Bhavatu.
❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Literature review for assignment one in Western Architecture submitted in the spring of 1985 at the School of Architectu...
13/11/2020

Literature review for assignment one in Western Architecture submitted in the spring of 1985 at the School of Architecture, University of New South Wales based upon the research of Idea: A Concept of Art Theory by Erwin Panosky, Chapter 4 The Renaissance and Chapter 5 Mannerism.

Stumbled upon this series of hand drawn sketches which demonstrated to the client the numerous possibilities of salvagin...
06/11/2020

Stumbled upon this series of hand drawn sketches which demonstrated to the client the numerous possibilities of salvaging and enhancing his array of period collectibles acquired from his expeditions abroad and locally. The restoration exercise which had kick-started way back in 1991 emphasised on evaluating every single piece through the merit of its attractiveness, construction and how it was to be put together to create not only a beautiful but also a highly functional object d’art.
Recall and concur with the adage whereby “The patina of certain items and places made me think about how people used to live, what their stories were. How were these things made? What were they meant to be used for? How did things use to be done? That’s why in my design work, it’s never just about the material, but also how it references a period of the past, how it alludes to a tradition of craftsmanship."
Happy November + TGIF ...

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