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Pieter Jonkers represents Tshwane University of Technology at the 25th Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Awards

Pieter Jonkers from the Tshwane University of Technology is this year’s regional representative at the 25th Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Awards. His winning entry is ‘The Design of a Transportation Hub and Student Centre on the Pretoria Campus of the Tshwane University of Technology.’   Allin Dangers, Corobrik Director of Sales, Inland Region, [...]

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Tomorrow’s architects set new standards at 25th Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Awards

Achieving sustainable built environments with low impacts on the natural environment has become a given for today’s architect. Energy usage in buildings is under the spotlight. Water wise projects are most likely to get the go ahead. That’s why an in-depth understanding of the environmental constraints and impacts of technologies on architectural solutions is emerging [...]

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Corobrik continues to support architectural students

The top architectural graduates from seven institutions throughout South Africa will compete for the prestigious twenty-fifth Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Award at a function to be held on the 7th March 2012 in the Ballroom at the Wanderers Club 21 North Road, Illovo, Johannesburg commencing at 18h00.   Mr. Dirk Meyer, Corobrik’s Managing [...]

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Caesarstone Student Designer of the Year 2012 – The good food arena

Caesarstone, the world’s premier quartz surfaces, encourages students to ‘re-establish a healthy relationship to our planet’ by designing The Good Food Arena. The 2012 brief was conceptualised by Lisa Younger of Activate Space. Open to all students of interior design and architecture, Caesarstone’s design brief for the 2012 Award is to conceptualise an interior space [...]

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3Concepts 1e-IDEA competition powered by HP and Autodesk

Concept:   We know that a project is the expression of an idea, and these ideas are based on concepts. HP, with collaboration from Autodesk, wants to find the architect or student with the best architectural ideas through this on-line architectural challenge, using the HP ePrint & Share solution.   1. HP has invited its [...]

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“The future African city” is the theme of 2011 C&CI sustainable design competition

“The Future African City” is the theme of the fifth annual Cement & Concrete Institute (C&CI) Architectural Sustainable Design Competition.   Daniel van der Merwe, architect at C&CI, says the purpose of the competition is to promote the innovative use of concrete in providing sustainable environments.   “C&CI wants to stimulate fresh thinking that produces [...]

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Cement & Concrete Institute announces 3rd annual Short Film Competition

For the 2011 C&CI Short Film Competition, students are invited to focus a critical gaze into the future of the African urban environment and specifically the role of concrete in it. The world’s population is moving, increasingly, towards urban environments. This is especially true in Africa. But what will these future cities look like and [...]

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