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Neo-Romantic building in the Ha-Hasmal Street beautiful restored
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!! … Read entire article »
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First event in the new building of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
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. a lecture: ‘The Intersection between Design & Technology’. If you love architecture (and art), you will fall … Read entire article »
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The once Ben Nahum Hotel is today the place to be: Shampina
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 1921 by Judah Magidovitch, Tel Aviv’s first city engineer. Last September restoration works started on the … 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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Dov Carmi exhibition in the Helena Rubinstein Pavillion
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 architecture. Back in Palestine he designed more then 50 International Style buildings (1930-1950 ) in Tel … Read entire article »
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TLV Global City Forum: a fighting spirit for Tel Aviv
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 interesting speech by Jennifer Falk, the Executive Director of the Union Square in New York, … Read entire article »
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TLV Global City Forum
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. David Kaufman (New York Times) as keynote speakers. There will be workshops on global cities: economy, culture and society. … Read entire article »
“Letter from Tel Aviv”
I did find a very interesting article about the architecture of Tel Aviv in the Metropolis Magazine by James Trainor: ‘Letter from Tel Aviv’. I agree a 100% with him about his comments in connection with the Peres Center for Peace, at Kedemstreet no.132 in the Ajami neighborhood in Jaffa.The building, designed by the Italian architect Massimillana Fuksas is a enormous green concrete block and doesn’t fit at all in his surroundings. The only open view is towards the sea and towards the street the heavy construction is closed off, like a safe, windowless, doorless and forbidding instead of inviting. It is the wrong building in the wrong place. The costs, NIS 55 million (around $ 15 million ) was 3 times (!) more then the original forecast. [costs … Read entire article »
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Famous Red House sold
The famous Red House (the Lodzia factory) in the Nahmani Street was bought by business man Roni Duek and his wife, actress Yael Abecassis, for NIS 25 million ($8 million!). The beautiful red-brick building was build in 1924 by Akiva Weiss, one of the founding-fathers of Tel Aviv. The Duek couple wanted first to use the building as their private home, but a few days ago, they decided to renovate and preserve the Lodzia building and turn it into luxury apartments. The laying of the cornerstone for the expansion of the Lodzia-textile factory in Spring 1929. Architect: Joseph Berlin … Read entire article »
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WOW: Houses from Within 2010
One of the – to my opinion – greatest events in Tel Aviv-Yafo is Houses from Within. Coming weekend (May 7th and 8th) the 2010 (and 4th) edition will take place on almost 150 (!) locations. There will be designer lofts, synagogues, gardens and lost of other unique places open for public. You should definitely go there if you can! Enjoy it and please send us your (links to) pictures! (for English information go HERE, for Hebrew go HERE) … Read entire article »
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Our Tel Aviv Fever website in The Jerusalem Post
Last Friday, Hannah Brown (for years the cinema-reviewer of the daily) mentioned our website Tel Aviv Fever in her weekly column CineFile in the Billboard Entertainment Guide of April 2nd. (a Friday Magazine of the Post). She wrote: “…Finally, you’ve seen the movie Ajami, and now you can tour the neighborhood for which the film was named. Frits de Wit, an expert on Tel Aviv history and architecture who has been living in the White City for over 20 years, conducts walking tours of Ajami. On his tours, he explans the history of the area, from early in the last century and up trough recent years. To get more information or to book a trip, check out De Wit’s website [in fact a joined effort of the two editors - ed.] , … Read entire article »
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