The significant progress made by Asia's real estate sector over the past year was celebrated last night at the inaugural Cityscape Asia Real Estate Awards, marked with an elaborate gala dinner attended by over 300 industry professionals at Singapore's Pan Pacific hotel. The awards an adjunct to the Cityscape Asia real estate exhibition and conference recognized winners in 12 separate categories spanning Corporate Social Responsibility, Urban design and master-planning through to the best developments in waterfront, retail, commercial, residential, and mixed use project (with a built and future award in each category). Projects from Singapore, Malaysia and China were dominant picking up four awards each in a clean sweep for the region's developers. Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) collected the Award for Best Urban Design and Master-planning for its work on the Bras Basah.Bugis Arts, Culture Learning and Entertainment District, while local developers to chime in included Capital Land Commercial Ltd (Built Waterfront Development: Clarke Quay), City Developments Limited (Future Retail: City Square Mall) and UOL Group (Built Residential for Newton Suites). Winning projects from Malaysia included ZLG SDN BHD for the BOH Visitor Centre in the Cameron Highlands (Corporate Social Responsibility), Kesas Kenangan Sdn Bhd for Setia Eco Gardens in Johor Bahru (Built Commercial), TTDI Harta SDN BHD for the Laman Seri Business Park in Shah Alam and Bandaraya Developments Berhad for The Troika in Kuala Lumpur. The People's Republic of China also made a strong showing with the Xiang Shan International Yacht Club's, Deep Blue Marina in Xiamen being selected as the best Future Waterfront Development while Financial Street Holding Co. Ltd's was recognised with the Award for the best Built Retail for Seasons Place in Beijing. China also made a clean sweep in the Mixed Use category with Chongbang Group receiving the plaudit for its already built Life Hub @ Daning in the Zhabei District of Shanghai, while Capital Land (China Investment Company Ltd), scored with Raffles City at 1 Dongzhimen Nan Da Jie in Beijing. Graham Wood, Exhibition Director of Cityscape Asia said the strength of the winning projects reflected the ‘overwhelming progress in Asia's real estate sector over the past year.' __
