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Product • By G.T.DESIGNTextures Millerighe - flexible and durable rug in New Zealand virgin wool

Textures Millerighe - flexible and durable rug in New Zealand virgin wool

  Textures Millerighe is a collection of flexible and durable rugs realized in New Zealand virgin wool. Woven on mechanical looms, the Textures Millerighe rugs have a classic narrow-line weave that unfolds into a rhythmic pattern of subtle stripes made from twisted and shot yarns.   Although mechanically woven, each Textures Millerighe rug is unique due to the twisting of the fiber during the weaving process. A fabric with a sartorial flavor that can be used as a rug or as a flooring, is customizable in colors and sizes up to a width of 4 meters (13’1” ft). It is also available upon request in technical yarn blends to increase performance and wear resistance. G.T.DESIGN   Where to use it: because of its... More

Project • By Zaha Hadid ArchitectsMuseums

One Thousand Museum

For an architect who occupies a Z-dimension all her own, Zaha Hadid, Hon. FAIA, has seldom constructed high along that Z axis. She has built many multi-level and midrise institutional buildings, but very few towers. That is about to change with the on One Thousand Museum, a 62-storey, 83-unit, super-luxury condominium tower on Biscayne Boulevard in Miami, opposite Museum Park, with views across Biscayne Bay to Miami Beach.The project is no less Zaha at this unprecedented scale. A concrete exoskeleton structures the perimeter of the tower in a web of flowing lines that integrates lateral bracing within the lines of structural support. Columnar lines near the base splay out to meet at the corners, forming a rigid tube highly resistant to Miam... More