Finalists for the 30th Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Award
Each of the regional winners in the 30th Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Awards has been judged top of their tertiary institution and will compete against each other for the top prize of R50,000.
L-R: Finalists Renée Amelia Minnaar, Margeaux Adams, and Reply Mahlangu
Commented Dirk Meyer, Corobrik’s managing director, on the excellent standard of entries for this year’s awards: “Finalists have incorporated sustainable architecture with innovation, technology and creative building design in their entries for this year’s event to be held on 18th April in Johannesburg.”
And the finalists are:
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University - Matthew Morris
Thesis title: The design of a decentralised sewage treatment facility for a settlement within Bethelsdorp, Port Elizabeth
Tshwane University of Technology - Reply Mahlangu
Thesis title: The design of an automotive assembly facility in Pretoria
University of Cape Town - Warren van Niekerk
Thesis title: Urban Campus
University of the Free State – Su-Elna Bester
Thesis title: The M.CAC / Multi-Cultural Assimilation Centre of Dubai
University of Johannesburg - Sarah Treherne
Thesis Title: The Subverse: Monuments to Hypertextuality
University of KwaZulu-Natal – Yousuf Vawda
Thesis title: Memento Mori - Remember Your Death
University of Pretoria - Renée Amelia Minnaar
Thesis title: Remediator - Restoring the dichotomous relationship between industry and nature through an urban eco-textile mill and dye house
University of the Witwatersrand – Margeaux Adams
Thesis title: Onder Hemel Bo Aarde
