A Bauhaus-building in the Dov-Hoz Street no. 8 was used a few weeks ago as set for a new Israeli feature: Snails in the Rain, directed by Yariv Mozer, produced by Hila Aviram and based on a short story by Yossi Avni Levy. It is the first feature of Yariv Mozer, who made different award’s winning documentaries. Yossi Avni Levy… Read more →
Last Saturday afternoon I did visit an afternoon-party at the Shampina Bar on Rothschild Boulevard 32. The place was crowded and swinging with the ‘to be seen folks’ of Tel Aviv. You will find the Shampina in the once Ben Nahum Hotel, the beautiful building with this special roof-top on the corner of Rothschild Boulevard and Allenby Street, designed in… Read more →
The Atlas boutique hotel chain has opened the Center Chic Hotel (former Center hotel) following a renovation of around $2.7 million/€ 1,8 million. The hotel situated on Dizengoff Square (entrance: Zamenhoff Street no. 2) includes 54 rooms and an intimate lobby with books, albums and historic films about Tel Aviv. The original Bauhaus building was designed in 1948 by Haim… Read more →
One of the first Bauhaus buildings (there are 4.000 of them in the inner-city of Tel Aviv!) that was restored (in 1994), is the beautiful building in Bialik Street no. 18 (architect: Friedman Bros, 1935). A few days ago, I did a Bauhaus tour with a Dutch reporter and saw the building again, after quite a long time. I was… Read more →
We wrote many times on Tel Aviv Fever about the ‘strange’ restoration project of the Habima Theater done by architect Ram Karmi. But now also the designer of the new plaza near Habima: the sculptor Dani Karavan joined the chorus of complaining about the whole project and the two top ” artists ” are blaming each other! In this article… Read more →
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… Read more →
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… Read more →
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… Read more →
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… Read more →
