Yoo Tel Aviv

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building_name= Yoo Tel Aviv
Yoo מגדלי


caption= Yoo Towers as seen in December, 2006
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location=Flagicon|ISR Tel Aviv, Israel
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status= Complete
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opening= 2007
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roof= Yoo 1 - 128m
Yoo 2 - 142m
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floor_count= Yoo 1 - 39
Yoo 2 - 41
floor_area= 52,000 m² (residential area)
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cost= ~US $145 million
architect= Philippe Starck
Yaski-Sivan Architects
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developer= Habas Group
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Yoo Tel Aviv is a complex including two luxury residential skyscrapers in Tel Aviv, Israel, completed in 2007. The two towers, named Yoo Tel Aviv 1 and Yoo Tel Aviv 2 became some of Tel Aviv's most recognizable structures even before construction, and ranked among Israel's tallest buildings, with Tower 2 being the ninth tallest building in the country, and Tower 1 being twelfth. The towers are 142 m and 128 m high respectively and combined they include over 300 residential units. The towers form part of a new complex in Tel Aviv called Tzameret Park, to the north of the Tel Aviv 2000 Terminal, which will later include the Tzameret Towers and the ONE Tower.

Yoo Tel Aviv was designed by Philippe Starck in cooperation with Moore Yaski Sivan Architects and the Habas Group. The total cost of the project is estimated at $145 million. The buildings include a spa, lounge, health club and private cinema, all designed by Starck. Buyers of apartments in the complex had the option of four finishing styles: culture, minimal, class and nature.

The complex is constructed on a nine-dunam plot and apartments ranged in price from $4,000-8,000 per square meter. 75% of the apartments in the first stage of the project (Tower 1) were sold for NIS 300 million by 2005, two years before completion.

ee also

*List of skyscrapers in Israel

External links

* [http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=131179 Yoo Tel Aviv 1] and [http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=131180 Yoo Tel Aviv 2] on Emporis
* [http://www.floornature.com/articoli/articolo.php?id=439&sez=3&lang=en Article about Yoo Tel Aviv]