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The 76 South Avenue
The 76 South Avenue is a luxury residential building in Bandra on a plot of 5317 sqfthaving one 3 bedroom apartment of 1420 sqftper floor, with the top two floors being a duplex penthouse.
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August 2019
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Greenpanel Industries Limited
Redefining its Commitment to Innovation in Wood Panelling and Surface Enhancement
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August 2019
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Let's Know More About Coatings From
Mr Apoorv Agarwal, Joint Managing Director, Sirca Paints
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August 2019
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Surfaces Reporter's Material Poetries
SR Material Poetries is a section that highlights those small but significant stories behind a design that often get crushed & forgotten behind the main idea/theme. Share your projects & the unpublished stories behind them on Materials, Innovations, New Learnings; how you stumbled upon ‘that’ unique idea, and more at press@surfaces.in.
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August 2019
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Häfele Digital Door Locking Systems - It's Time To ‘Reinvent Access'!
A new prouduct in the market that Surfaces Reporter loved is the- all new Locking Systems by Hafele. Aptly named the Reinvent Access, here are some of the products they launched...
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December 2018
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The Fascinating Facade Of Sangini House
A corporate headquarter, at the heart of Surat is designed in collaboration with Urbanscape Architects, New Delhi and Utopia Designs, Surat. Celebrating, the soothing tonality and colour variations in Agra Red Sandstone, several modules of stone panels were developed with a different intensity of lattice cut-outs and engraving on a shot-blasted texture.
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December 2018
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In Conversation With Dr Ramki Subramanian
Sr. Vice President, at Reliance Industries Ltd. (RelWood™)
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December 2018
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Samruddhi Bungalow
Mahapura, Vadodara
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December 2018
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Harish V. Holalu - Business Head, Certainteed-India, Saint-Gobain
Saint-Gobain entered India in 1996, and has achieved strong and profitable growth since then. Today, it is a leader in all its major businesses, has 25 manufacturing sites and about 6,500 employees in India. CertainTeed is a business unit dealing with world-class exterior building products. Since its inception in 1904, the company has pioneered innovative roofing and wallcladding product applications. The products are from CertainTeed Corporation, a Saint-Gobain company in the USA.The two major products from CertainTeed are Roofing Shingles and Vinyl Siding. Roofing Shingles are the most commonly used roofing material in North America, which are now being widely preferred across India. The unique characteristics of style, flexibility and high performance are making Roofing Shingles an increasingly popular choice among architects, designers, builders and consumers. Inclined to know more about this interesting product, the #SurfacesReporter team engages into a conversation with Mr Harish V. Holalu, Business Head, CertainTeed-India, Saint-Gobain. The conversation turns out to be highly engaging, letting us know a great deal about the product.
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June 2019
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Plagiarism In Design
Good artists copy, great artists steal. This quote attributed to great artist Pablo Picasso makes us to rethink and discuss about the thin line between inspiration and imitation.An initiative by Surfaces reporter magazine’s ‘the talk of town’ city events
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June 2019
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Surfaces Reporter's - In-Focus The Story Of Paints
Keen to remain within beautiful surroundings, humans have been using various mediums to adorn the walls of their homes since ages. Paints, along with protecting a building from harsh weather conditions, add a lot of aesthetic value to it. Over the years, we have witnessed huge transformations in paint products in terms of functionality, materials and application methods. Toxic materials are out and 'natural' is in. What's more? From brushes and rollers, we are moving towards having robots painting our homes. Are you ready?
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June 2019
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Innovations At Global Level
The paint and coating industry is innovating largely at global level to create sustainable solutions. Innovations based on technological advancements are enabling the industry to come up with unique decorative solutions that are good for the environment and our well-being as well.
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June 2019
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10-On-10 With Massimo Iosa Ghini Founder, Iosa Ghini Associati, Italy
Massimo Iosa Ghini is an Italian architect, designer and professor known for pioneering the Bolidist Movement in the 1980s, a style which he sums up as “a way of narrating the transition from materialety to drawing things in which the visual and media aspect prevails with respect to the object’s functional purpose”. In the year 1990, Massimo founded Iosa Ghini Associati with his Wife, Milena Mussi. He is known for his streamlined and organic designs, and is praised for his “visionary ability to blend disciplines, forms and dimensions crossing boundaries in art, design, and architecture. His work spans across product design, architectural and museum planning, public transport, as well as in the design of retail chains all over the world, developing projects for major international groups such as Ferrari, Capital Group, IBM Italia, CMC Group Miami, Seat Yellow Pages, Alitalia among many others. One of his notable projects is the Ferrari Factory Store in which his dynamic, Futurist and strikingly Italian style is transparent. He has been involved with the Memphis Group since the 1980s with some of his iconic creations. His design and architectural works have received important honorable mention including that of the Compasso D’Oro Award ADI, and various awards including the Good Design Award by the Chicago Athenaeum, the Red Dot Award and the iF Product Design Award, Germany, the Roscoe Award, USA, the IAI AWARD Green Design Global Award and the IAI Awards, Shanghai, China and many more. SURFACES REPORTER is delighted to share an interaction with the design maestro where he discusses about his dynamic style, his journey as a designer and much more.
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November 2018
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Carrier India 'Solution' Over 'product'
It was back in the year 1936, when Carrier installed India’s first ever air-conditioning system at Rambagh Palace in Jaipur. The brand went on to establish itself as the major air-conditioning brand in 1987 in the country and then there was no looking back. In 1988 Carrier inaugurated its first state-of-the-art, manufacturing facility in Gurgaon, Haryana. The lavish premises of the unit also boast of an excellent Technology Development Centre and an advanced quality clinic. Today the company is indulged in offering cassettes, ducted splits, package units, air-cooled and water-cooled screw chillers, fan coil units, air handling units and commercial refrigeration products. With more than 550 sales and service channel partners throughout the country, the company aims to launch more advanced solutions for its customers. “At Carrier, it is always ‘solution’ over ‘product’, says FarokhMadann, Director - marketing & strategy, carrier India. In a recent conversation with surfaces reporter’s Editor-in-Chief, Vertica Dvivedi, Farokh spoke about their latest and customized offerings for India, company’s collaboration with Toshiba, and much more... Here are the excerpts.
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November 2018
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Rising Stars: AR Arun Shekar & AR Mohammed Afnan
Humming Tree is a creative studio based in Calicut, Kerala, for art, architecture and urbanism. Ar Mohammed Afnan & Ar Arun Shekar founded it in 2015. Humming Tree believes that ‘Relationship’ is a guiding force and the best domino effect trunk from a constant dialogue with stakeholders. “With clients as our allies, we loom each project as a distinctive confront,” they confirm.Their work is branded by its versatility in solving intricate programmes. Understanding user needs, context and materiality get the foremost significance. The practice provides a full range of design services including architectural design, interior design, and spatial planning.
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November 2018
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Restoration Of Jal Mahal Reviving Heritage To Recharge Economy & Ecology
Transformation + Innovation + Collaboration + Eco-System Based Approach.
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June 2018
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Growing Trees Into Artsy Furniture
A collaboration between Nature & Craftsmanship.
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June 2017
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Craft Beton Instils - Art In Cement
“We are delighted and very excited to introduce CraftBéton. This is not just a product line. It reflects a paradigm shiftin the perception, use, and application of cement. By demonstrating the sheer versatility of this material, CraftBéton has demonstrated that cement can be very aesthetic, practical and even aspirational,” said Puneet Dalmia, Managing Director, Dalmia Bharat Group, while introducing CraftBéton Collection 2017, at a recent event in New Delhi, as the group’s new venture.
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June 2017
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A Design Revolving Around Memories, Stories And Humour
Materialised with... Concrete Slab, Gloss Aluminium Sheets, Hand Painted Cheese Boards, MDF Panels Painted with Luster Paint, Raw and Unfinished Brick Walls, Wooden Flooring.
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June 2017
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Transforming Highland Sheep Shelter Into Temporary Studio Workspace
Materialised with: Granite from Urquhart, Stonemasonry, Pine, Wood, Steel, Glass
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June 2017
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Is the Luxury Market Bouncing Back?
With demonetization, one of the major areas deemed to be affected was the luxury market in India. Overnight, sales almost stopped and situation seemed gloomy. SURFACES REPORTER’s initial forecast however saw the potential hidden in this downturn. We wrote about the evolving Luxury market in India which was poised to grow even stronger in the coming years, what we did not however expect is the speed at which the market will bounce back. Experts site that the luxury market in India has already recovered from the gloom and doom of demonetization.
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June 2017
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Luxury Real Estate In The Indian Context
Luxury housing in India is the proverbial sitting duck for target practice in the shooting gallery that is the Indian residential property sector.
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June 2017
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Application-Ache
Red Oxide: Flooring That Breathes
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June 2017
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Narrowing It Down To Spacious Outlook
As said by norman foster; “as an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknown.”
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April 2019
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Landscape Development For Green Belt
The site is located in a green belt area in between a highway and a service road.
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April 2019
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Pixels @Ashok
Luxmi digital studio approached us to create a meeting node for wedding photography clients at The ashok hotel.
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April 2019
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The Wonder Wood Cross-laminated Timber (CLT)
Wood was always considered a favorite material for many but it had several limitations when it came to complicated construction and tall buildings.
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August 2017
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A Beautiful Auditorium
With its unique and shimmering façade La Seine Musicale, Seguin Island has become a focal point of the region the heart beat of Vallée de la Culture in Hauts- de-Seine.
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August 2017
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Race Robotics Lab, Singapore
Each facet comprises stacked layers of hand-cut aluminium hollow tubing; rotating the direction of the tubes with every facet to create a bold multi-directional effect
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August 2017
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Redistribution of Light
Bringing light for semi-underground shelters.
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