The Star, Malaysia Saturday July 16, 2011 Designs that matter By LEONG SIOK HUI Read the original article A team of budding architects and design professionals picks up construction know-how and ruminates on why design matters at a design-and-build camp in Sabah. After seven years of slogging in architecture school, followed by 2½ years of designing building after building, David Thomas Arnott was on the verge of burning out. “You spend so much time in university working on amazing projects. Then you start working...

22 contractors attended a site visit to BSBCC on 3rd June to decide whether to tender for phase II works. Phase I was completed in March 2010 giving us a new bear house and 1ha of electric fenced forest enclosure with capacity for 20 bears. The second phase due to start in September 2011 will give us an observation platform and allow the centre to open to the public in March 2012. Contractors were briefed in the Sepilok Orang-utan Rehabilitation Centre (SOURC). In the foreground is BSBCC Manager Ng Wai Pak. The briefing...

Photos by Calvin Ng, courtesy of Borneo Nature Tours. One year after completing the renovation of the Main Lodge at Borneo Rainforest Lodge, here's what it looks like. To see what it looked like during renovation check out these earlier blog posts. BRL Renovation - Demolitions BRL Renovation - Update We gutted the old place and turned everything around and uplifted it. Two big themes in the design were to improve the feeling of connection to nature and to make the public areas more welcoming The bar is now in the heart...

Arkitrek Camp2 4th January - 4th February 2012, Mantanani Island, Sabah. The Arkitrek Camp is for students, graduates and professionals in the construction industry. For students it is a chance to experience the construction process first hand and to learn that what you design must actually be build-able. For professionals perhaps it is a chance to refresh your enthusiasm for your profession and commitment to sustainable use of natural resources “This truly has changed my perception of architecture. I didn't think it would,...

Arkitrek Camp - Blog series by Richard Nelson Sokial (Part 5 of 5) Original post can be found at the Sabah Architectural Heritage Blog Just a typical morning on Mantanani island... We had two days left to finish the MCP Learning Centre (the official name for Albi's Chicken House). It was crunch time - we knew it and everyone had their pokerface on as we silently ate our breakfast. The Arkitrekkers had put up the roof the night before. Today, we had to finish the bottle wall, slanting bamboo wall elevation, floors and the massive...