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 [...]
In the Barzilay Street no.6, near the Rothschild Boulevard, you will find a beautiful restored Bauhaus (or International Style) building from 1934. It is one of the more then 4.000 International Style buildings, you will find in the inner-city of Tel Aviv, designed between 1930 and 1938.
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On Friday 6th and 13th of November, I took a group (64 people all together) of Irgoen Oleh Holland (The Dutch new immigrant organization) for a walking tour of historic Tel Aviv: the architecture in the Neo-Classic, Neo-Romantic, Eclectic and Bauhaus or International Style. At the end of the 3 hours tour, the group received [...]
Last week, the 3rd kiosk in Tel-Aviv, on the corner of Allenby Street and Rothschild Boulevard started serving again. The famous kiosk was for many, many years in a horrible state and is beautiful restored.
A very good commentary I did find in Ha’aretz, November the 6th: “The worst show in town” about the ‘rape’ (so called restoration) of our national theater building Habima by the (so called) architect Ram Karmi. The editor of Ha’aretz wrote,e.g: “When every city resident wanting to expand a window or close off a balcony [...]
