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Ajami, the Arab-Jewish Neighborhood
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 fast growing neighborhood, together with new Jewish immigrants from the Balkans and North-Africa. In the 1950s the Municipality of then Tel Aviv-Jaffa came with a foolish-plan to transform Ajami to a modern neighborhood. Many beautiful old homes were destroyed and a large part of the population (Arab and Jewish!) were forced (!) to leave their homes. The neighborhood conditions drastically and quickly deteriorated, while no modern infrastructure was build. Beside, … Read entire article »
Filed under: architecture, city, future, history, life, restoration
Beautifully restored at Barzilay Street
In the Barzilay Street no.6, near the Rothschild Boulevard, you will find a beautiful restored Bauhaus (or International Style) building from 1934. It is one of the more then 4.000 International Style buildings, you will find in the inner-city of Tel Aviv, designed between 1930 and 1938. … Read entire article »
Filed under: architecture, future, history, restoration
Munich mounts Tel Aviv Centennial show
A new exhibition honoring Tel Aviv’s Centennial celebrations opened at the famous House of Architecture in Munich, Germany. The exhibition curator is Arieh Berkowitz and features his and artist Sergio Lerman‘s works. It will run until December 11th, 2009. The showing express a longing for the city of Tel Aviv old, romantic architecture, typical of the 1920s and 1930s. Sergio Lerman ‘s beautiful drawings of historic architectural buildings you will find also in a most interesting book called Born with Love (2004) with color drawings of the conservation of historical buildings of Ramat Gan, a suburb of Tel Aviv. … Read entire article »
Filed under: architecture, art, exhibitions, history
Architectural tour of Tel Aviv
On Friday 6th and 13th of November the IOH (Irgoen Oleh Holland) will organize an architectural tour of Tel Aviv. See the Gems of the city in Neo-Classic, Romantic, Eclectic and Bauhaus or International Style (1909-1938). The (walking)tour will start at the corner of Herzl-street and Rothschild-boulevard, near the first kiosk (1909) of Tel Aviv and ends (after 3 hours) in the beautiful, restored Neve-Tsedek neighborhood. For all architecture-lovers a must!! For information:Milly Horowitz (03-5169096 ) … Read entire article »
Filed under: architecture, events, history, life, restoration
An other landmark in Tel Aviv destroyed?
The last few months, we wrote a few items about the rape of our Habima theater building by Ram Karmi. But the Municipality of Tel Aviv has no limits at all. A few weeks ago, they agreed to a plan to destroy an other famous Tel-Aviv landmark: The Asia House in Weizmann Street 4, designed in 1960 by Ben Horin. This beautiful shaped building was a relief for a lot of architecture-lovers after a long period of Brutal style architecture (concrete, concrete, concrete!). The new owner of the building is Alfred Akirov… He build, the last few years towers all over the center of Tel Aviv, e.g. destroying the Rotschild Boulevard with this large ugly steel and glass monsters. The new plans for the Asia House are just unbelievable: a 12-stories … Read entire article »
Filed under: architecture, history, restoration
Bauhaus-building sold for $2million
A Bauhaus-building (1936) in the Yehuda Halevie Street was sold yesterday to a privat investor for NIS 7.3 million ($2 million). The structure, 4 stories-high,was build on a land measuring 280 square meters. It was owned by an offshoot of one of the founders of the famous Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. The new owner said that he will restore the historic building and add an other floor on it (costs: $1 million). … Read entire article »
Filed under: architecture, history, restoration
Intermediate Space Video Installation in Neve-Tsedek
On September 10th at 20.30 there will be large “Intermediate Space Video Installations” on the square in front of the Inbal Dance Theatre in the Neve-Tsedek neighborhood. This outdoor video-installation adress the space between ‘black and white’, between Tel Aviv “the White City” of Bauhaus modern architecture and its adoption of European ‘modernism’. It continues with a look at Tel Aviv of the Middle-East, including Jaffo and the southren neighborhoods. Curators are : Carmel Gottlieb Kimhi and Tali Navon. The video-artist, who are taking part in this unique video-art installation are: Ronen Eidelman, Batya Argov, Yael Bartana, Doron Golan, Ela Zaharano, Delight, Meir Tatti, Yulie Cohen, Itay Finkelstein, Yifat Libny, Sagit Geirman, Tali Navon, Doron Solomons, Yael Omer, Dafna Shalom and Micha Simchon. More information: 03-5173711 … Read entire article »
Filed under: architecture, art, video
Nearly restored…the third kiosk
There are historic places gone soon (see pictures item before of the old Tel-Aviv Central busstation), but at another place in the city, they are restoring an old, historic site: the 3rd ‘kiosk’ of Tel Aviv (corner Rothschild Boulevard and Allenby Street) will be in a few days as NEW. [see the former state at Tel Aviv Fever: HERE] … Read entire article »
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Window shopping on Dizengoff
An article, full of nostalgia, I found in the Jerusalem Post, friday June 26th, written by Bracha Stock: “Window shopping on Dizengoff”. This was the ‘good old days’ without (!) this ugly small viaduct they build (in the 70s) over the once most beautiful (and only square in the world designed completely in the Internationale Style!!) square in Tel Aviv, with a fountain in the middle. An other assault on a historic place in Tel-Aviv!! … Read entire article »
Filed under: architecture, life
“A little help from ‘some’ friends…..”
Herewith a picture of a Bauhaus building (1934) in the Frishman Street no.22. The building needs badly a restoration : as you can see, during the years the inhabitants of the building, closed some of the balconies (extra-room) and did put ugly, plastic sun-shades on the top-floor. The design is a truly beautiful ‘International Style’ … To renovated this building, we just need: A little help from ‘some’ friends… … Read entire article »
Filed under: architecture, restoration
Our editor Frits in the media again: Dutch radio
Flavius, a Dutch ‘current historic magazine’ of the Joodse Omroep (Jewish Broadcasting Company), has made a radio report a few weeks ago with Tel Aviv Fever editor Frits de Wit. It will be broadcasted in The Netherlands (Dutch only) and will be available online after the broadcast: Radio 5, Sunday May 31st, 19:30-20:30 local time. Maybe we’ll be able to make you a (shortened?) transcript. The for us most important two subjects are on Tel Aviv and Tel Aviv Only: Frits is touring the reporter through Tel Aviv and talking about architecture and Bauhaus architecture particulary and architect Herman Hertzberger talks about his not realized development plans for Tel Aviv. That is what Frits says all the time: “Tel Aviv architecture is way cool!” … Read entire article »
Filed under: architecture, centennial, future, history, TA Fever
Our editor Frits in Asian architecture magazine
Tel Aviv Fever editor Frits has been guiding Adele Chong, the editor of Blueprint Asia magazine on a tour through historic Tel Aviv, which of course included the revival of Bauhaus in Tel-Aviv: TEL AVIV : The White City Revival : “Architecture tour guide Frits de Wit muses over the Israeli (cultural – ed.) capital’s famous Bauhaus legacy and takes us on a trip down memory lane.” Blueprint Asia – May 2nd, 2009 edition It resulted in a multi-page article with great pictures of Tel Aviv. Blueprint Asia is a growing magazine on architecture, design and art and is published in many countries in East Asia: Malaysia, Singapore, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Middle East and Philippines. It has a circulation of 15.000. Tel Aviv Fever is of course mentioned as the … Read entire article »
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