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Dutch architects and engineers visiting Tel Aviv

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

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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The coming of the ‘Neo-Bauhaus’

An ‘old -fashioned’ style featuring ‘simple lines’ is staging a comeback. Guy Liberman wrote a very interesting article in ‘Ha’aretz’ (April 8) of a revival of design in the Bauhaus-, or International Style. “….more and more builders have grasped that magic word ‘Bauhaus’ could attract buyers, in drove, helping to sell even in this economically stressful times” says Leo Levkovitch of BAP construction, “…Bauhaus has something that people are looking for, which will help us focus on the romantic aspect.” The revival of the Bauhaus in Tel Aviv (sic.: that was the name too of an exhibition, I brought to Delft University, Holland, last September!!) may have begun with builders who purchased old buildings constructed in the International Style on the cheap. Today developers are instructing their pet architects to design buildings for … 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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