Homemakers Expo Cape Town 2013
It is always difficult to showcase our product and services and to convey our brand philosophy, in such a small space. Knowing that a visitor only spends maximum 15 min at a stand, we had to showcase that concrete is a product of excellence and that our concrete products are different from the rest…… namely […]
Homemakers Expo Cape Town 2014
The Homemakers Expo 2014 was for Stucco Italiano and World of Decorative Concrete, once again very challenging in the sense that we wanted to showcase our capability to build high quality stands and to showcase our products at the same time. Our first aim was to showcase our products in such a way that our […]
Homemakers Expo Cape Town 2015
The Homemakers Expo 2015 was for Stucco Italiano and World of Decorative Concrete, very challenging in the sense that we wanted to showcase our newly launched Logo’s and to showcase our products at the same time. Our first aim was to showcase our products in such a way that our quality stand out above our […]
SIM- Sanlam Investment Management
Artevia Polished Concrete with a non-slip finish was specified by the architect to achieve both a functional requirement and add a particular look and feel to the inner courtyard of the building. The architect wanted to give this courtyard a natural appearance by the use of trees and requiring a natural product as floor finish. […]
House Rhino
Brian van Niekerk, CEO of the Rhino Group, decided to be part of the Crossways Agricultural development by means of building their show house to showcase their products under normal conditions. The idea was to build a house that is self-sustainable and to be completely of the grid. The design of the building was set […]
Sandown Retail Crossing
In his design for the centre, the architect incorporated partially covered walkways purposefully exposed to the natural elements, with a view to creating and maintaining a natural flow between the shops to the walkways and the parking terrain beyond. The abundance of natural light led the architect to specify maximum reflection from the floor […]
University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg Auditorium
Peter Kraus from MLB Architects in Cape Town contacted World of Decorative Concrete to discuss certain floor finishes for the new Auditorium at the Tygerberg Campus of the University of Stellenbosch. The Architect’s focus was to specify concrete finishes in their design. The structural concrete elements were all specified as off shutter. The idea of […]
Manenberg Civic Centre
With this project, the architect set out to design a building to be a durable and identifiably authentic part of the surrounding area. The walls were constructed with sandbags filled with sand from the immediate area and then plastered over (see picture). On some walls, the architect employed galvanized sheeting as external wall cladding. In […]
The Towers, Merriman Square, Cape Town
World of Decorative Concrete were contacted by Landscape Architects, Gibbs, Saintpol, Smuts and Boyes to discuss possible floor finishes for the pedestrian walkways at Hertzog Boulevard and Old Marine Drive (station entrance) at The Towers, Merriman Square, Cape Town. The Towers is an old building that has been upgraded to a new building. The client […]
House Nel Stellenbosch
The Client’s instruction to the Architect was to have the house built with natural materials that come from the area. His further instruction was to use concrete’s diversity as a building material. World of Decorative Concrete, together with the Architect, decided to use river pebbles found in the area, as the concrete aggregate. The use […]
