Rietveld Architects, a NY-based architecture firm known for its large-scale international projects, acquired its Objet 3D Printer and now creates architectural models in just a few hours – a fraction of the two–month turnaround time it required previously. Rietveld Architects has also discovered that the Objet 3D Printer can help secure new projects. The Objet [...]
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Kludi Design Awards South Africa 2012
On Tap and Kludi are proud to be hosting the Kludi Design Awards in South Africa for 2012. The Design Awards were introduced to recognize up and coming talent in the kitchen and bathroom design fields in South Africa. Design students, professional designers, architects and interior designers are welcome to enter, and there is both [...]
Tile Africa Contracts serves the Cape Town building industry from a new hub in Paarden Eiland
Tile Africa has opened a new retail store in Paarden Eiland, Cape Town, which now functions as a central hub for its contracts division, Tile Africa Contracts, to service its clients. The area draws many architects and contractors who are continuously looking for products to suit swimming pool, corporate, hospitality and residential projects. The [...]
HP introduces micro-publishing market opportunities at a seminar organised by the Creative Printers Network at drupa
Seminar designed to support professional photographers, designers, architects, publishers and other creatives and the printers that serve them DÜSSELDORF, Germany, 25 April 2012 – HP announced today that together with the Creative Printers Network (independent forum of professional labs using HP Indigo presses) it will be presenting a seminar on the growing opportunities available in [...]
Paint made easy
The days of being intimidated by having to choose the colours for your home or office are over thanks to the free expert advice now available at the recently made-over Plascon Spaces Showroom The Plascon Spaces Showroom at The Design Quarter in Fourways has opened as a design haven with a new name and [...]
Increasing Green Building Efficiency: Seminar
Session 1: Integrative Design Process: Using Design to Reduce Build Cost This seminar will educate professional and enable a ‘how to’ understanding of IDP process and how to use them to find and drive synergistic benefits in the design, product and technology specification process to reduce the cost of green buildings while maximising the green [...]
Precast hollow-core flooring – all set for substantial growth
Precast hollow-core flooring – all set for substantial growth The local demand for precast hollow-core flooring and load-bearing structures looks set for substantial growth. This message was brought home in October when over 200 delegates comprising mainly of consulting engineers, architects, and other professional classes, attended three hollow-core flooring seminars in Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and [...]
Premier breaks ground for Cape Town new skyline
Underscoring their commitment to sustainable investment in the Western Cape, Old Mutual and FirstRand are embarking on their joint Portside development initiative to further the fast growing central business district of Cape Town. The Cape Town skyline will soon feature a stunning new addition in the form of the impressive new Portside Building. The project [...]
Build Aid Technologies celebrates 2011
Graham Alexander from Build Aid Technologies has launched an all new, completely revised and updated Build Aid ‘Building and Pricing Guide’ for 2010/2011. Build Aid Building & Pricing Guide has been published since 1993 and every year contains comprehensive and relevant information on how to specify, quantify and cost. The publication is aimed at both [...]
Latest Issue - May/June 2012
In This Issue:
- The Alexander Forbes head office campus by Paragon Architects
- The New Jerusalem Children’s Home by 4D+A Architects
- The Quarterdeck by CHT Architects
- The 2012 Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Awards
- Paragon Architects profile
