Tel Aviv Fever » Entries tagged with "dizengoff square"
Historic Cinema Tel Aviv is gone…
The Cinema Tel Aviv, build in 1958, in the Pinsker Street, near Dizengoff Square, was destroyed last week. Another historic building is gone… On the same spot will the 18 floors Tel Aviv Cinema Tower arise (building cost $100 million). The Cinema Tel Aviv was famous for his thick red carpet and the ‘iron curtain’… It was Hollywood in Tel Aviv !! What a shame :( … Read entire article »
Filed under: architecture, featured, history, life, movies
Eating from the Tree of Knowledge
Yesterday, October 19th) I did find an interesting article in Ha’aretz about the sculptor Ya’acov Agam (81 years old) written by Ellie Armon Azoulay: Eating from the Tree of Knowledge. Ya’acov Agam, not one of the easiest guys in the world, become famous e.g. with his sculpture on the Western facade of the Dan-Hotel (HaYarkon Street) in Tel-Aviv (1970) and the (hated or loved!!) notoriuos fountain on Dizengoff Square (1986). … Read entire article »
Filed under: architecture, art, history
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 letter from 1944
On the ‘flea-market’, once a week at Dizengoff Square, I bought last week a ‘rare’ envelope: a registered (no.0032) letter from February 19th, 1944 to Mordechai Schwieli at the Rothschild Boulevard no.110 in Tel Aviv. … Read entire article »
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