Asia House today

The last few months, we wrote a few items about the rape of our Habima theater building by Ram Karmi. But the Municipality of Tel Aviv has no limits at all. A few weeks ago, they agreed to a plan to destroy an other famous Tel-Aviv landmark: The Asia House in Weizmann Street 4, designed in 1960 by Ben Horin. This beautiful shaped building was a relief for a lot of architecture-lovers after a long period of Brutal style architecture (concrete, concrete, concrete!). The new owner of the building is Alfred Akirov… He build, the last few years towers all over the center of Tel Aviv, e.g. destroying the Rotschild Boulevard with this large ugly steel and glass monsters.
The new plans for the Asia House are just unbelievable: a 12-stories tower will embrace this historic building, totally destroying, with a massive amount of construction, its unique soft design and damaging the relationship it has with his neighbor buildings (e.g. the famous IBM House). Are there any architects, working within the Municipality of Tel Aviv with an ethic feeling for the historic architecture of Tel-Aviv???