INTERIORS & ARCHITECTURE – Materials | Products | People | Projects
January 2018 250 Published on 1st January 2018
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Rising StarS
Piyush Mehra and Priyanka P. Mehra
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Another wonder project 'The Mondrian Doha' in Qatar
Home of TV Actor Kushal Tandon
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10-on-10 with Ace Artist Brinda Miller
53 102 Actress Monika Bedi's House
Louvre Musuem Abu Dhabi
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Every year, tons of materials are recycled - and tons more burned or disposed off. Wouldn’t it be great, if we could find a way to cheaply collect and reuse all that raw materials? Read more in SR Material of Substance - ECOR!
World Architecture Festival & Awards (WAF)
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Aludecor
IN SR BRAND BUZZ
58 Meet the 11 Young Women Artists from India
38 A school in Jammu, Jewelery
showroom in Nagpur and more...
The Power of ParametricS
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CONTENT in Visual--IIIII Visual II
fACES fINDER - SURFACES REPORTER
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Ar. Jean Nouvel
Marcel Wanders
Founder, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Paris
Amsterdam
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New Delhi
Ar. Arun Bij New Delhi
Sushant Verma
Mumbai
58 Vandana Kothari Delhi
64 Samruddha Kishor Purekar, Kolhapur
Ar. Mihir Kotak
Surat
65 Neeti Banga New Delhi
Ar. Rinki Kotak
Delhi
Piyush Mehra
Mumbai
Mumbai
60 Pallavi Singh
Founder, HW Architecture, Paris
Gandhinagar
67 Khushboo Vyas Ahmedabad
Priyanka P. Mehra Mumbai
62 Aishwarya Sultania
Delhi
66 Vijayata Bhamri
Ar. Hala Warde
ZEEL Architects & Interior Designers Mumbai
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59 Jasmine Kaur
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Ar. Nimish Shah
Sanjay Puri Architects, Mumbai
Mumbai
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85 Co-founder, rat[LAB] New Delhi
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Ar. Sanjay Puri
Brinda Miller
36 Ar. Abhishek Bij
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63 Aswathi Mohan Calicut
68 Rukshana Tabassum Assam
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69 Sheetal Chitlangiya Jaipur
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Surfaces Reporter is a wonderful magazine. It is comprehensive and detailed. I was just seeing the amount of coverage on national and international projects. It’s a wonderful format and its first time in India that somebody is dealing with material or surface skin of a building. We all talk about the concepts, the ideas, the philosophy behind it; but here you guys are trying to go down to the hardcore material palette and I think that’s a fantastic initiative at the end of the day.
As per the magazine is concerned, I really like the projects that are being featured and the other good thing is the different initiatives that the Surfaces magazine has taken like WADe. Trying to bring out the women architects and put them forward that is something which is really invaluable which you are bringing into the field of architecture. Ar. Priyanka Khanna | 42MM Architecture
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I think you guys are doing a great job because years back when you all started and I told Vertica that it is the only magazine which just talks about surfaces. You have kept your focus absolutely correct unlike deviating into different genres like homes. So you have kept the story going but you have kept the product line absolutely simple and straight. Kudos to you!
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efore we speak about this year’s 10 Takeaways, it is imperative that we look at the progress on the takeaways we spoke about in the beginning of 2017. Our key takeaways were on real estate, infrastructure, budget housing, women entrepreneurship, co-working places, and more. As expected, we saw the real estate sector finally moving towards transparency, the hiccups post GST, and finally the dust is settling down. SURFACES REPORTER had written about the thundering thrust of infrastructure in January 2017 and in 2018, we see more impetus on the same, including rural development.
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2018 will be the year of consolidation
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or the Indian businesses and Indian real estate in particular, 2016 was a turbulent year, 2017 was the year of landmark reforms and implementation, while 2018 is expected to be the year of consolidation.
We hinted about emergence of budget housing. This year, it has emerged as one of the biggest growth drivers. Co-working places have geared huge momentum. As predicted, focus on Women entrepreneurship has risen to the level that the Global Entrepreneur Summit in India with chief guest Ivanka Trump had the theme, “Women first, prosperity for all.” For the first time, of the 1500 selected entrepreneurs, majority were women. Now, let’s have a look at the 10 Major Takeaways from 2017 to 2018. Keep reading Surfaces Reporter magazine!
"2016 was a turbulent year, 2017 was the year of landmark reforms and implementation, while 2018 is expected to be the year of consolidation."
As India launched the GST (Goods and Service Tax), its biggest tax reform since independence in 1947, businesses and citizens across the country went through a period of economic chaos.
post implementation of GST. The second half of the year saw a radical reworking of the items within the four-slab tax structure by GST Council, whereby all but 50 of over 1,200 items remained in the highest 28 per cent bracket.
GST as a reform is a way of formalising the economy and ensuring tax compliance, making it harder to earn black money. The earlier system was a myriad of central and state taxes where the movement of goods was slowed down by products being taxed multiple times and at different rates. The new indirect tax regime unifying the Indian market has four tax slabs of 5, 12, 18 and 28 per cent. It has a new feature whereby goods and services providers get the benefit of input tax credit for the goods used. Technical glitches of the GST portal, high GST rate of many items, unclarity and confusion, led to huge unrest in the business community
It is too early to count on the positive as the market is slowly settling down from after shock of gigantic reform implementation. It can be said that demonetisation and the introduction of the GST has resulted in formalisation for the SME segment making it easier to lend to them. GST was designed to turn these SMEs more competitive, and level the playing field between large enterprises and them. Market expansion is expected with a reduction of tax burden on new businesses. To reduce tax evasion, GST recognizes both goods and services as one. Under the GST bill, no entry tax will be charged for goods manufactured or sold in
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