Kian Wong, B.Env.D
"Ever since I was a kid, I have always been drawn towards building and creating things. I loved to play with toys and action figures, trying to create environments to play with them in. While others played the game Jenga® correctly (trying not to make a wooden tower fall), I saw the small wooden bricks as material to create my own buildings I could use to play with my other toys. I also spent a lot of my time building and collecting model figurine kits and mixing and matching parts to make my own creations, especially with LEGO® kits and parts. If I wasn’t tinkering with model kits and blocks you could probably find me watching anime or playing video games in which, I was always fascinated with the expansive environments and art within them.
Design has become a way for me to express my own ideas and imagination, it allows me to build, create, tinker, and share what I love to do. It allows me to communicate who I am to others and to connect with others from different fields. In the words of Albert Einstein, “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere.”
Kian is an interior designer at PLAY.
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Selected Project Experience
UWCRC Housing Project, Winnipeg, MB
Leon's Exterior Alterations, Winnipeg, MB
510 Kent Residence Interior Renovation, Winnipeg, MB
University of Manitoba Palace Theatre Demolition, Winnipeg, MB
RRC Building D 2nd and 3rd Floor Ceiling Renovation, Winnipeg, MB
RRC Building D Office Renovation, Winnipeg, MB
638 Jubilee Residence Interior Renovation, Winnipeg, MB
Awards
Barbara C. Poole Bursary
Roy C. Rettinger Graduate Scholarship for Interior Design
Tamara Kucey Memorial Scholarship