{"id":7203,"date":"2014-03-26T15:04:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T14:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/preprod.gmtmag.com\/?p=7203"},"modified":"2014-03-26T15:04:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T14:04:20","slug":"richard-mille-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/art-n-en\/architecture-2\/richard-mille-37.html","title":{"rendered":"Richard Mille : Controlled chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Flyback RM 60-01 Regatta Chronograph\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Case\u2009:<\/strong> titanium <strong>Diameter\u2009: <\/strong>50mm <strong>Movement\u2009:<\/strong> mechanical automatic, 55-hour power reserve <strong>Functions\u2009:<\/strong> central hours, minutes and seconds hands, minutes counter and countdown timer at 9 o\u2019clock, hours counter at 6 o\u2019clock, UTC display and variable geometry rotor <strong>Strap\u2009:<\/strong> rubber<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"contenu_article\"><strong>The watch: RM 60-01 Regatta Flyback Chronograph\u00a0<\/strong><strong>by Richard Mille<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While this new chronograph regatta will not surprise observers in terms of the impressive number of functions it provides, it is nonetheless a first for Richard Mille: this is the first time that the brand is offering a watch dedicated to sailing the high seas. Despite its apparently complex appearance, this flyback chrongoraph complete with an annual calendar, large date display and UTC displays is amazingly simple to operate. Its special rotating bezel bearing the four cardinal points and a 360\u00b0 graduated disc with a 24-hour scale serves to calculate the wearer\u2019s position based on just local time and the position of the sun. This useful function works in both the northern and southern hemispheres without any need for additional calculations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Its architectural counterpart: the National Museum of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century Arts, Rome, by Zaha Hadid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Museum of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century Arts is a foundation created by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Assets and Activities. It is the first national institution devoted to contemporary creativity and designed like a large campus for culture. It houses two museums\u2009: the MAXXI Art and the MAXXI Architecture.<\/p>\n<p>The program of activities \u2013 exhibitions, workshops, conferences, laboratories, shows, screenings, training projects \u2013 reflects MAXXI\u2019s vocation to serve not only as a place in which to preserve and showcase a cultural heritage, but also and above all as a laboratory for experimentation and cultural innovation, study, research and production of aesthetic content of our time.<\/p>\n<p>The two museums \u2013 MAXXI Art and the MAXXI Architecture \u2013 are located around a large full-height space which gives access to the galleries housing permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, the auditorium, welcome services, a cafeteria and a bookshop.<\/p>\n<p>The space is built in such a way that the route is not linear, but on the contrary offers different alternatives which mean that visitors never have to retrace their steps and can enjoy openings onto the architecture, the works and the city. The mastery of natural light allows for a succession of different atmospheres.<\/p>\n<p>Like the watch, the museum is identified through an overview of the building elements \u2013 curvilinear arrangements that command attention and distract from the activity going on in the building. Placing the function of the object in the background, the aesthetic design asserts its presence and cleverly refers to artistic expressions of modernist movements in which visual appearances are characterized by a certain stimulating unpredictability and controlled chaos.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The watch: RM 60-01 Regatta Flyback Chronograph\u00a0<\/strong><strong>by Richard Mille<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While this new chronograph regatta will not surprise observers in terms of the impressive number of functions it provides, it is nonetheless a first for Richard Mille: this is the first time that the brand is offering a watch dedicated to sailing the high seas. Despite its apparently complex appearance, this flyback chrongoraph complete with an annual calendar, large date display and UTC displays is amazingly simple to operate. Its special rotating bezel bearing the four cardinal points and a 360\u00b0 graduated disc with a 24-hour scale serves to calculate the wearer\u2019s position based on just local time and the position of the sun. This useful function works in both the northern and southern hemispheres without any need for additional calculations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Its architectural counterpart: the National Museum of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century Arts, Rome, by Zaha Hadid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Museum of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century Arts is a foundation created by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Assets and Activities. It is the first national institution devoted to contemporary creativity and designed like a large campus for culture. It houses two museums\u2009: the MAXXI Art and the MAXXI Architecture.<\/p>\n<p>The program of activities \u2013 exhibitions, workshops, conferences, laboratories, shows, screenings, training projects \u2013 reflects MAXXI\u2019s vocation to serve not only as a place in which to preserve and showcase a cultural heritage, but also and above all as a laboratory for experimentation and cultural innovation, study, research and production of aesthetic content of our time.<\/p>\n<p>The two museums \u2013 MAXXI Art and the MAXXI Architecture \u2013 are located around a large full-height space which gives access to the galleries housing permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, the auditorium, welcome services, a cafeteria and a bookshop.<\/p>\n<p>The space is built in such a way that the route is not linear, but on the contrary offers different alternatives which mean that visitors never have to retrace their steps and can enjoy openings onto the architecture, the works and the city. The mastery of natural light allows for a succession of different atmospheres.<\/p>\n<p>Like the watch, the museum is identified through an overview of the building elements \u2013 curvilinear arrangements that command attention and distract from the activity going on in the building. Placing the function of the object in the background, the aesthetic design asserts its presence and cleverly refers to artistic expressions of modernist movements in which visual appearances are characterized by a certain stimulating unpredictability and controlled chaos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":7201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}