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Dutch architects and engineers visiting Tel Aviv
Last Thursday, June 2nd, 61 Dutch architects and engineers did visit our city Tel Aviv. The 6-days Dutch Architecture Israel Excursion was organized by Ton Voets (Cultuurreizen.tv in Delft, Holland). I took 31 people from the group and showed them historic Tel Aviv (1909-1938). In the 3-hours walk of the inner-city of Tel Aviv, they saw Neo-Romantic, Eclectic and Bauhaus, or Internationale Style architecture. In the inner-city of Tel Aviv (since June … Read entire article »
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Allenby 58, from cinema to club to apartment complex
In the beginning of 2000 ‘Allenby 58′ was the place to be: a groundbreaking club, with the best dj’s of the world. Years before it was known as the ‘Rimon Cinema’. It started all in 1930 when architect Shlomo Gepstein was commissioned a plan to design a three-storey block of flats on a plot at Allenby 58. Plans changed and in 1932 a cinema was build. After the 80′s the building crumbled down, until it became a Tel Aviv … Read entire article »
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Renovation a matter of taste?
From where do this restoration/renovation architects in Tel-Aviv (at least a part of them) received this horrible ‘ taste’?? On the Ben-Jehuda Street no. 8, you will find the famous Hershberg House, designed in 1926 by Joseph Berlin. Berlin was born in 1877 in the Ukraine. He studied architecture in Odessa and in St.Petersburg. He emigrated to Palestine in 1921. His early buildings are largely in silicate stone and reminicent of Berlage‘s, the Dutch architect from Amsterdam (!), brick buildings. In 1998/99 the Hershberg House was restored and the restoration architect thought it was ‘proper’ to add an aluminium floor on top of this historic building. A ‘matter of taste”. … Read entire article »
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Conference launches Centennial celebrations
Today, April 1st 2009 , a two days conference on ‘urban sustainability’ started at a crowded ‘Tapac Center’ in Tel Aviv, with architects, urban-planners, students, press-corps from Israel and abroad (including 8 mayors and 3 deputy mayors from e.g. Toulouse, Budapest, Bonn and Vienna). Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai said in his adress: “…In the land of the prophets, a vision is not a pipe dream but a plan for action. On July 5th 1906, when Akiva Arieh Weiss presented to the Yeshurun club in Yafo the vision of the first Hebrew city, he spoke of a city that would be to Israel what New York was to America. No one really believed that a city would arise on the sands of Yafo….as did one citizen who even as the plots … Read entire article »
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