Finalists for the 30th Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Award

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