French investments in apartments in Allenby Street
A group of French investors purchased last week 13 apartments in the Beit Moyal project on Allenby Street 138-140 for NIS 20 million (about $5.3 million). The building was used in recent years as mayor Ron Huldai‘s election headquarters. The structure is slated for preservation and will be turned into an apartment building. … Read entire article »
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Adler House at Ahad Ha’am Street destroyed
One of the first buildings constructed in Tel Aviv was demolished last week to make way for a new…tower block. The Adler House at the Ahad Ha’am Street no.26 was built in 1910 and was first owned by Yisrael Yehuda Adler, a teacher and one of the founders of the famous Gymnasium Herzliya (also destroyed for a tower!). The Adler House was originally placed on the municipality’s building preservation list. A spokesman for the Tel Aviv Municipality said that all the components of the Adler House have been marked and documented, and that the building will be reconstructed on another site. (Yes, of course..at the Dead Sea !!!) … Read entire article »
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“Letter from Tel Aviv”
I did find a very interesting article about the architecture of Tel Aviv in the Metropolis Magazine by James Trainor: ‘Letter from Tel Aviv’. I agree a 100% with him about his comments in connection with the Peres Center for Peace, at Kedemstreet no.132 in the Ajami neighborhood in Jaffa.The building, designed by the Italian architect Massimillana Fuksas is a enormous green concrete block and doesn’t fit at all in his surroundings. The only open view is towards the sea and towards the street the heavy construction is closed off, like a safe, windowless, doorless and forbidding instead of inviting. It is the wrong building in the wrong place. The costs, NIS 55 million (around $ 15 million ) was 3 times (!) more then the original forecast. [costs … Read entire article »
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Enough is enough
The Municipality of Tel Aviv started to build another (!!) enormous tower on the historic Rothschild Boulevard (the part between Herzl- and Allenby Street). Enough is enough, ain’t it??!! Were is ex-city engineer Israel Goodevitch? At least he had the guts(!!) to say no to highrise on the Boulevard… … Read entire article »
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Famous Red House sold
The famous Red House (the Lodzia factory) in the Nahmani Street was bought by business man Roni Duek and his wife, actress Yael Abecassis, for NIS 25 million ($8 million!). The beautiful red-brick building was build in 1924 by Akiva Weiss, one of the founding-fathers of Tel Aviv. The Duek couple wanted first to use the building as their private home, but a few days ago, they decided to renovate and preserve the Lodzia building and turn it into luxury apartments. The laying of the cornerstone for the expansion of the Lodzia-textile factory in Spring 1929. Architect: Joseph Berlin … Read entire article »
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Municipality TLV: no new skyscrapers in center
So sometimes there is good news coming from the offices of the Municipality of Tel Aviv: the Municipality’s Planning and Construction Committee decided yesterday not to approve building of any new tower in the city center (just like places as Amsterdam and Paris). According to an outline plan for 2025 high-risers will be concentrated in the city’s East-Side. Ron… Kol Ha Kavod !!! … Read entire article »
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WOW: Houses from Within 2010
One of the – to my opinion – greatest events in Tel Aviv-Yafo is Houses from Within. Coming weekend (May 7th and 8th) the 2010 (and 4th) edition will take place on almost 150 (!) locations. There will be designer lofts, synagogues, gardens and lost of other unique places open for public. You should definitely go there if you can! Enjoy it and please send us your (links to) pictures! (for English information go HERE, for Hebrew go HERE) … Read entire article »
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Five historic buildings sold in Tel Aviv
The construction & development company Dimri bought, last week, 5 historic buildings in-and around the Nahalat-Benyaminstreet for NIS 140.7 million (around: $45.- million). All the buildings are slated for preservation. One of the buildings is the famous ‘House with the Pillars’, designed in 1925 by Jehoeda Magidowitch, Tel Aviv’s first City Engineer, in Rambamstreet no. 12-16. A few years ago, the architect Uri Shitrit (who was yesterday arrested in Jerusalem, because one of the biggest building-fraude scandals ever in Israel!) made a new plan for the building and added three floors on top (!) of this historic building. Let’s hope that the Municipality of Tel Aviv will be ‘sane’ and won’t give permission to destroy another historic building in Tel Aviv, by putting floors on top of it! … Read entire article »
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Our Tel Aviv Fever website in The Jerusalem Post
Last Friday, Hannah Brown (for years the cinema-reviewer of the daily) mentioned our website Tel Aviv Fever in her weekly column CineFile in the Billboard Entertainment Guide of April 2nd. (a Friday Magazine of the Post). She wrote: “…Finally, you’ve seen the movie Ajami, and now you can tour the neighborhood for which the film was named. Frits de Wit, an expert on Tel Aviv history and architecture who has been living in the White City for over 20 years, conducts walking tours of Ajami. On his tours, he explans the history of the area, from early in the last century and up trough recent years. To get more information or to book a trip, check out De Wit’s website [in fact a joined effort of the two editors - ed.] , … Read entire article »
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Ajami, the Arab-Jewish Neighborhood
Yesterday, during a bright sunny day, I visited the beautiful Ajami-neighborhood. Towards the end of the 19th century the Ajami neighborhood , stretching south of ‘Old-Jaffa’ started to be built. In the beginning of the 20th century hundreds of families, mainly Christian-Arabs, settled in Ajami. After 1948, a large Arab population from different parts of the country moved into the fast growing neighborhood, together with new Jewish immigrants from the Balkans and North-Africa. In the 1950s the Municipality of then Tel Aviv-Jaffa came with a foolish-plan to transform Ajami to a modern neighborhood. Many beautiful old homes were destroyed and a large part of the population (Arab and Jewish!) were forced (!) to leave their homes. The neighborhood conditions drastically and quickly deteriorated, while no modern infrastructure was build. Beside, … Read entire article »
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