MIPIM Asia Awards Appoint a Prestige Jury

MIPIM Asia Awards Appoint a Prestige Jury

July 23, 2007

    PARIS, July 23 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- The first MIPIM
Asia Awards are due to be presented in Hong Kong on 28
November 2007 at MIPIM Asia, the international Asia Pacific
property market. These distinctions will give real estate
professionals a new opportunity to boost their
international visibility by rewarding the most outstanding
Asia Pacific constructions, regardless of whether they are
registered at MIPIM Asia. In all, seven projects will
receive prizes from a jury of investors, developers and
associations, comprising twelve of the most highly-rated
property specialists in this region.

    They include six internationally renowned investors
particularly active in this geography who will judge the
candidate projects: Michael Smith, Managing Director and
Head of Asian Real Estate of Goldman Sachs Pte (Singapore),
Thomas Pearson, Managing Director, Co-Head Global Real
Estate Group -- Asia, of Lehman Brothers Real Estate Ltd
(Japan), Richard David, Managing Director of Macquarie Real
Estate Capital China (China), Robert Lie, Chairman of ING
Real Estate Investment Management Asia (Hong Kong), Graeme
Torre, Managing Director of AIG Real Estate (Hong Kong) and
Cheng-Soon Lau, Managing Director of Invesco Real Estate --
Asia (Hong Kong).

    Developers are also represented on this jury, with two
company executives: Hiroo Mori, Senior Managing Director of
Mori Building Co., Ltd (Japan) and Nicholas Loup, Managing
Director of Grosvenor Asia (Hong Kong). 

    The MIPIM Asia Awards also draw on the expertise of
three Asian property associations to select the candidate
projects: Reuben Chu, Chairman of the PGBC (Professional
Green Building Council), a body responsible for developing
green buildings in Hong Kong; Peter Mitchell, CEO of the
Asian Public Real Estate Association (Singapore) that
promotes, develops and represents the Asian public real
estate sector; and Dr Ronald Lu, President of the Hong Kong
Institute of Architects. Hokyu Lee, Managing Director of the
international property consultants BHP Korea, will also be a
jury member.

    The jury will meet on 21 September to name the three
projects chosen for each of the following seven categories:
business centres, shopping centres, mixed-use buildings,
residential developments, hotels and tourism resorts, and
green buildings. The MIPIM Asia Futura Award will go to a
project still in the planning stage that demonstrates
outstanding architectural, technical or environmental
qualities.

    The 21 nominees will benefit from very high visibility
among real estate professionals from all over the world via
MIPIM Asia's communication to its existing and potential
clients and to the media in forty countries, starting at
the end of September. The projects will also be exhibited
and presented to attendees throughout the event.

    These awards are open to any company operating in the
property sector, regardless of whether they are registered
for MIPIM Asia. The buildings in question must be located
in the Asia Pacific region and have been completed between
the 1er of January 2006 and 30 November 2007, apart from
those in the Futura Project. All entries must be submitted
by 27 August 2007 to:

    Aurelie Prouillac
    MIPIM Asia Awards 2007
    Reed MIDEM
    BP 572 - 11 rue du Colonel Pierre Avia
    75 726 Paris Cedex 15
    France
    [e-mail]
    t¨¦l : + 33 (0)1 41 90 45 61 / fax : + 33 (0)1 41 90 45
30

    The jury will make public the names of the seven
winners on 28 November during the opening ceremony for
MIPIM Asia, which will be held from 28 to 30 November 2007
at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, in the
presence of all attendees.

    The MIPIM Asia Awards are the Asia Pacific equivalent
of the MIPIM Awards, organized during MIPIM, the
international property market which brings together 26,000
attendees in Cannes each year. These events have become a
benchmark for the sector for many years now.

    For more information on the MIPIM Asia Awards:
http://www.mipimasia.com


    For more press information, please contact:

     Belinda CHAN in Hong Kong
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