Sunday, April 08, 2007

Millenium's new Art Deco

Expocentre Exhibition Halls and Residential Tower Project, Moscow, Russia
Is this Art Deco? No, but it is art deco in that it is already dated by the time it is constructed and has cartoonish qualities that are more marketing ploy than aesthetic quality.

If that is too much around the barn as an explanation, let me put it another way. This is an immature design that makes an ugly building that gets uglier as it ages, but for its time and place is marketable. Much like Art Deco was.