Gallery Tour in Neve-Tsedek
Irgoen Oleh Holland, the Dutch New Immigrants Organization will have an exciting Gallery Tour in the old and picturesque neighborhood ‘Neve-Tsedek’ (1883) on March 4th. The tour will start at 9.30.The tour will be in Dutch! For information, please call: Milly Horowitz (03-5169096). … Read entire article »
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Dov Carmi exhibition in the Helena Rubinstein Pavillion
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
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
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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Historic Cinema Tel Aviv is gone…
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
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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TLV Global City Forum: a fighting spirit for Tel Aviv
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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Ram Karmi, the ‘gentleman’ architect
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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Homage to Avigdor Arikha at Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art will tribute a homage to the Romanian born Israeli painter Avigdor Arikha, who died last April the 29th. The exhibition will be in two parts. The first part, planned with the artist before his death, at the age of 81, includes illustrations to S.Y. Agnon‘s ‘A Stray Dog’ , woodcuts and drawings made during the 1950′s and represent Arikha’s development from the figurative to the abstracts. The second part presents 19 self-portraits: the earliest from 1948 and later ones with his image as a painter, working and observing himself, against the background of the studio and its surroundings. The latest portrait was made in 2001, in Arikha’s Paris studio, as he was approaching his 70th birthday. For more information: www.tamuseum.org.il … 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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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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