Home & Design Trends Magazine - May 2015

In this issue

This is an edition I look forward to more than the others. Although the magazine
covers commercial spaces in every issue throughout the year, they are never
like they are in a TRENDS Commercial Design Special.
Inside the pages, you will find institutional spaces, hospitality projects, offices
and residential high-rises; they are the best of the new projects from the world
over. Must see is the Mumbai office designed by
Planet 3 Studios, striking with its meandering wooden
wall, the unconventional Kolkata school by Abin
Design Studio, and One Central Park in Sydney by
PTW Architects. One Central Park was once a brewery
site, and this ambitious project has become a leading
example of how to make a success of large-scale
mixed-use development projects. Attention towards
approaching mixed-use projects is also the point of
discussion in Reza Kabul’s guest column this month.
In the Building Conversations section, do read
the interviews with architect Alan Abraham,
developer Navin Raheja, and designer/architect
Rahul Shankhwalkar, where they give valuable insights into the worlds of public
design, real estate and hospitality design respectively.
And in Portfolio, we revisit the Kochi Muziris Biennale 2014. It concluded
early on in the year and inside is a photo-essay on some of the extraordinary
artworks that were created for it. I visited Kochi just when the biennale was
ending and met up with its founder Bose Krishnamchari. The first things I had
said to him, was how proud I felt when I read ‘The Biennale City’ written boldly
on top of the first archway that was the gateway into Fort Kochi.
Happy reading.
Preeti Singh