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Dov Carmi exhibition in the Helena Rubinstein Pavillion

December 19th, 2010 | Comments Off

In the Helena Rubenstein Pavillion for Contemporary Art (Tarsat Boulevard 6) you will find an exhibition about the famous International Style (‘Bauhaus’) architect Dov Carmi under the name: ‘Dov Carmi, Architect-Engineer, Public Domestica‘. Dov Carmi was born in 1905 in Odessa and came to Palestine in 1921. He went to the ‘L’Ecole du Beaux Art’ in Gent (Belgium) to study architecture. Back in Palestine he designed more then 50 International Style buildings (1930-1950 ) in Tel … Read entire article »

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Alfas House needs a restoration badly

December 13th, 2010 | Comments Off

The Alfas House build in the Eclectic Style in Balfourstreet no.4 was designed in 1924 by Alexander Levy; the same architect who designed the beautiful Pagoda House on the King George Square. The 559 square meters building with his impressive, redish facade is slated for preservation under very strict restrictions, which do not permit additional construction. The building is now many years in a bad condition and is waiting for his saviour” … … Read entire article »

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More supporters: Never destroy a historic building

November 27th, 2010 | Comments Off

I did found this most interesting article in the Ha’aretz newspaper about the preservation of historic buildings in the city. As the frequent readers of Tel Aviv Fever will know, we support restoration and renovation projects in the inner-city for 100% and are fully against a destruction of an (important) historic building. An historic building is a part of the culture and history of the city, never destroy it! … Read entire article »

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View on Peace Wall from Peres Peace House

November 12th, 2010 | 2 Comments

My co-editor Frits told me and wrote about it on our site before. He is an art and architecture lover and I am a photographer. But now I have seen it with my own eyes, being on a guided tour with Frits. For me it is official now: The Peres Peace House is ugly! There are more reasons for that: it is an ugly building (of 15 million dollars), that looks like an Amsterdam parking house it is difficult to clean and so dirty already it is facing the sea and not the streets of Jaffa / Ajami There is one big benefit since a few weeks and from yesterday. The backside of the building, designed by Italian architect Massimillana Fuksas, faces the Peace Wall, the great artwork of Arabic and Jewish children, in the form … Read entire article »

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Coming soon…

November 9th, 2010 | 1 Comment

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Historic Cinema Tel Aviv is gone…

November 5th, 2010 | Comments Off

The Cinema Tel Aviv, build in 1958, in the Pinsker Street, near Dizengoff Square, was destroyed last week. Another historic building is gone… On the same spot will the 18 floors Tel Aviv Cinema Tower arise (building cost $100 million). The Cinema Tel Aviv was famous for his thick red carpet and the ‘iron curtain’… It was Hollywood in Tel Aviv !! What a shame :( … Read entire article »

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Restoration work former Ben Nahum Hotel started

October 31st, 2010 | 2 Comments

I think every Tel Avivian knows this spot on the corner of Allenby Street 118 and Rothschild Boulevard: the beautiful building with this very special rooftop: the once Ben-Nahum Hotel, designed in 1921 by Tel Aviv’s first city-engineer Judah Magidovitch, who designed more then 500 (!) buildings in Tel Aviv, between 1919 and 1951. After the hotel closed, there have been several different restaurants in de building. A month ago they started to restore this awesome building… … Read entire article »

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The Yitzhak Rabin Center at HaYarkon Park

October 24th, 2010 | 2 Comments

The beautiful Yitzhak Rabin Center, at the HaYarkon Park (not far away from the Tel Aviv University, TAU) was designed in 2005 by the famous Israeli/American architect Moshe Safdie. The enormous white (shell) roofs were designed and manufactured by the Dutch company Octatube in Delft. The Center is worth a visit. Yitzhak Rabin: November 4th, 1995 – November 4th, 2010…15 years later :( … Read entire article »

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TLV Global City Forum: a fighting spirit for Tel Aviv

October 17th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Last Wednesday, October 13th, the first Tel Aviv Global City Forum took place at the Cameri Theatre, with local and international speakers and different workshops. After the opening remarks of mayor Ron Huldai there were speeches by Chaim Shani, the General Manager of the Ministry of Finance, a speech by Hila Oren, the General Director of TLV Global City, an interesting speech by Jennifer Falk, the Executive Director of the Union Square in New York, … Read entire article »

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Tel Aviv Culture Square, a beauty next to the beast

October 17th, 2010 | 2 Comments

The frequent readers of our website will know by now, what we think of the radical ‘renovation’ of the Habima Theater. The moment they started with Habima, the Municipality also started to work on the new ‘Culture Square’, situated between Habima, the Mann Auditorium and the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion of Art. The huge square, once a parking lot, is newly designed by Dani Karavan… and: it looks absolutely awesome, with a lot of open spaces, greenery, water works, and with the parking now underneath the square. They are still working on the square, but I am sure, in a few months, this will be the place to be! … Read entire article »

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Chelouche Gallery moves into former hospital building

October 16th, 2010 | 1 Comment

The Chelouche Gallery will move on October the 28th. (opening party at 20:00) from Chissin Street to the historic ‘Twin Building’ in Mazeh Street no. 7. The building was designed in 1925 by Joseph Berlin and functioned as the first ‘Architecture School’ of Tel Aviv. In 1950 it became a small hospital. After the hospital closed its doors the building was in bad shape for many years until Amnon Bar-Or restored it as it is now: a shining gem!! … Read entire article »

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Official Tel Aviv-Jaffa Guide for iPhone in App Store

October 14th, 2010 | 2 Comments

It is in the iTunes App Store for several month now, but Tel Aviv has it own iPhone App, VISITLV. It was published by the The Association for Tourism Tel Aviv-Jaffa in May, more than in time for the summer season. A pity I did find it just a while ago. ;-) The app starts with one of the most a wonderful splash screens I have seen (I thought of surprising you by not showing it, but not everyone has an iPhone ;-) ) and contains information about the three Walking Routes we talked about before, cafés, pubs, restaurants, museums, hotels, free guided tours and of course a ‘What’s On’-calendar, which, to my opinion, could be more extensive and more up-to-date… ;-) It is possible to search for the name of a restaurant, … Read entire article »

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Ram Karmi, the ‘gentleman’ architect

October 8th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Just watched the Israeli Channel 10 News yesterday with an item about the ‘renovation’ of the once so beautiful Habima Theater, designed in 1935 by Richard Kaufmann. The reporter asked the renovation architect Ram Karmi the following quite relevant questions: “Why was there no public discussion about this renovation-project? Why was there no tender issued to select the architect? Why the budget went from NIS 31 million to NIS160 million? Why are there old components missing? Why the sub-contractor went to court to stop the project? Why the opening date changed from last December to the Summer of 2011?” The amazing answer of the ‘gentleman’ architect was: “Everybody can kiss my arse!!” Before on Tel Aviv Fever where Habima was mentioned: HERE … Read entire article »

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