The Neo-Romantic building, designed in 1924, in the Ha-Hasmalstreet no.10 is a real beauty again after 18 month of restoration-work. The now colorful facade is shining: a great job is done here!!
A few weeks ago was the official opening of the beautiful new, expanded building of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. The Herta & Paul Amir Building is designed by Preston Scott Cohen, an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts. On wednesday, November the 30th. (20:00h) there will be a first event in the new building, mixing social and art, with e.g…. 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 →
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… 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 →
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… Read more →
On October 13th (8.30 – 16.00) the TLV Global City Forum (invitations only) will take place in the Cameri Theatre with Mayor Ron Huldai, Mr. Chaim Shani (General Manager of the Ministry of Finance), Architect Josep Acebillo (Barcelona), Mr. Alex Giladi (member of the International Olympic Commitee) , Ms. Jennifer Falk (Executive Director of the Union Square Partnership) and Mr…. Read more →
At Jehuda HaLevie Street no.6 the most expensive penthouse in the inner city of Tel Aviv was sold for NIS 18 million ($ 5.5 million). The building, designed in 1921 by Eliazer Yellin and Wilhelm Hecker was beautiful restored by Amnon Bar-Or, who added the glass-penthouse.
So once and a while a website needs new face. That time is NOW! So with changing the clocks in Israel (at 02:00) we decided to change our looks. (okay, honest: we will do the trick a few hours earlier, because we like our night rest too ;-) ) We wanted you to see the headline article right away, the… Read more →
