Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa November/December 2013

AWARDWATCH MIPIM ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW FUTURE PROJECT AWARDS - CALL FOR ENTRIES The organisers of the annual MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards have called for entries into their 2014 competition, with the deadline for submissions confirmed as 13 December 2013. The awards are now open for entries. Entries can be made online at www.mipimarfutureprojects.com. Full details of entry requirements can be found online. This year’s twelve award categories have now been confirmed - ten of which can be entered directly, including: • Big Urban Projects • Cultural Regeneration • Mixed Use • Offices • Old & New • Regeneration & Masterplanning • Residential • Retail & Leisure • Sport & Stadiums • Tall Buildings • Sustainability • Overall Winner The Overall Winner and Sustainability prizes will be selected from among all of the category finalists. The winning projects will be honoured at a prize giving ceremony held during MIPIM on 12 March 2014 SAINT-GOBAIN GYPROC INTERNATIONAL TROPHY COMPETITION The 9th Saint-Gobain Gypsum International Trophy was recently launched, coupled with the announcement that the awards ceremony will be hosted in Berlin in June 2014. A call for entries from South Africa is being spearheaded by Saint-Gobain Gyproc, where a national winner will be identified to travel to Berlin to compete in one of six categories of the International Trophy competition, which is expected to attract entries from over 37 countries with the submission of over 100 construction projects. The projects will typically be a collection of the world’s most interesting and newest buildings. Saint-Gobain Gyproc is looking for building or renovation projects that will be completed by 31 January 2014 to represent South Africa in the International Trophy. The winner of the SA national trophy will enjoy an all-expenses paid trip with travel in business class to Berlin in June 2014 and will receive a professional photographic shoot of their project. The Saint-Gobain Gypsum International Trophy, established in 1998, is billed to be one of the largest international competitions of its kind, promoting excellence and innovation in the use of sustainable, lightweight plasterboard systems and plasters. Projects are entered and judged in six categories including; plasterboard, plasterer solutions, innovation, segment solutions (education/ hospitals/ hotels), residential and mixed use (commercial including leisure and retail). For more information and to register your project go to www.gyproc.co.za and complete the entry form, before 31 January 2014. For full competition rules and regulations visit www.saint-gobain-gypsum-international-trophy.com 10 A night view of the exterior of the new R40 million lecture theatre block COROBRIK FACE BRICK ENHANCES NEW UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND LECTURE THEATRE BLOCK More than 222,000 Bergendal Satin Blend face bricks from Corobrik’s Witbank factory were used to build the new R40 million lecture theatre block at the University of Zululand (Unizulu) which students started using in September 2012. This is the first time that this distinctive earth coloured brick, with its smooth satin finish, has been used at the university as a change from the red face brick and plastered and painted buildings that define much of the aesthetics of the campus. “The material palette of Bergendal face bricks, off shutter concrete and a steel roof create a warm and earthy feel for the building,” said Mohideen Abdool Gafoor of M A Gafoor Architect cc, who designed the structure. The two-storey block provides teaching spaces for 2,160 students. Six lecture theatres, each with 300 seats, provide raked seating for 1,800 students. A further 350 students can be accommodated in flat classrooms – divided by folding acoustic screens so they can be used individually or jointly – and there are 31 work stations in the computer lab. Piazzas or common areas shared by the Education and Nursing Science students create opportunities for informal student interaction. The new block is situated between the existing Nursing Science and Arts buildings. “The design challenge was to link the various buildings at different levels to the central library whilst providing teaching spaces and integrating the developmen

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