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Moscow Gets Newest “yoo by Starck” Residential Complex

by Ian Volner | Tuesday, January 10, 2012 | 2 Comments

Moscow—home to St. Basil’s Cathedral, Red Square, and the Kremlin—can now boast yet another architectural monument, albeit one of a rather different variety: Barkli Park, the latest addition to the “yoo inspired by Starck” family of residential high-rises, has settled down in the Russian capital, and is slated to begin taking well-heeled tenants this season.

As with its 37 sister buildings, scattered across 30 cities around the world, the Moscow yoo takes its visual cues from the work of much-lauded (and sometimes lambasted) French designer Philippe Starck. The neo-baroque touches in the pre-furnished apartment interiors, as well as the slick contemporary furniture and super-graphic Renaissance paintings in the lobby, will all be familiar to visitors of other yoo by Starck residences, like the original New York location on East 23rd Street. Prices for the 130 units on offer will run in the range of $2,700 per square foot.

Speaking at the project launch last fall, yoo chairman John Hitchcox remarked that “Moscow is a vibrant city that has long had an appreciation for unique design… Barkli Park seeks to not only provide luxury living, but also contribute towards the wellbeing of residents and enhance their lifestyles. Philippe has the ability to conceptualize exactly what the market currently requires, as he has done to great effect with Barkli Park.”

Images courtesy of yoo.

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Karen Socolow

Posted Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 11:14 am | Permalink

If I designed something like this I’d be run out of town. People with too much money and no taste will follow any so called trend setter like sheep. The Russians evidently will buy anything, especially anything with marble. That makes it alright. Stark has thrown in everything, including the kitchen sink, everything over-designed, over “amusant” and pretentiously rebellious. His signature. He has taken Albert Hadley’s deliberate disregard for proportion to an exaggerated degree which is disagreeable in the extreme. Most in the design world will consider this opinion blasphemy, but I feel that once someone has become the design darling, anything they do, however ugly, useless or uncomfortable, becomes de rigeur. What a shame.
mini

Posted Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 10:30 pm | Permalink

ostentatious, overdone and very “phillippe Starck” – while I can understand that this is the “taste” of the locals, i think it is the responsibility of designers to lead by example of what we want design to evolve to as we progress heading into the future.The economic and global climates have changed , and eco – conciseness is an important element of good progressive design – completely lacking in this one ….neo baroque ? Uggs ! get with the program Phillippe !