January was super exciting. After an intense November-December of accepting and sorting entries for the TRENDS Awards for Architecture & Design 2015, this past month was time to organize and meet the juries. Because of the volume of the entries received this year, we had to instate a pre-jury before the main jury deliberated. I cannot stress enough on the absolute coolness of our pre-jurors this year – Salil Ranadive, Rajiv Kasat, Akbar Biviji and Nina Puri; for accommodating our last minute request, and also for their unbroken enthusiasm of carefully looking at 1100+ entries over two days. That was hard work. And our many thanks to Kamal Malik, Gurjit Matharoo, Sonal Sancheti, Alfaz Miller, Rahul Gore and Sameep Padora for a very exciting and interesting final jury deliberation. Debates, disagreements, laughter and discussions filled up the day, and we will soon be unveiling the results of the TRENDS Awards 2015. Stay tuned to www.trendsawards.in for updates on the date for the awards night. Hope you enjoy this issue – TRENDS meets designer Ravi Vazirani for the first time. And there are fantastic spaces by studios like DCA, ZZ Architects, and US Design Studio among our other features. Happy reading. Preeti Singh