The Atlas boutique hotel chain has opened the Center Chic Hotel (former Center hotel) following a renovation of around $2.7 million/€ 1,8 million. The hotel situated on Dizengoff Square (entrance: Zamenhoff Street no. 2) includes 54 rooms and an intimate lobby with books, albums and historic films about Tel Aviv. The original Bauhaus building was designed in 1948 by Haim… Read more →
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… Read more →
I did found this most interesting article in the Ha’aretz newspaper about the preservation of historic buildings in the city. As the frequent readers of Tel Aviv Fever will know, we support restoration and renovation projects in the inner-city for 100% and are fully against a destruction of an (important) historic building. An historic building is a part of the culture… Read more →
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… Read more →
On Friday 6th and 13th of November, I took a group (64 people all together) of Irgoen Oleh Holland (The Dutch new immigrant organization) for a walking tour of historic Tel Aviv: the architecture in the Neo-Classic, Neo-Romantic, Eclectic and Bauhaus or International Style. At the end of the 3 hours tour, the group received a light lunch at the… Read more →
As the Centennial Year draws to an end, one of its most special projects will be introduced in a weekend of walking tours…the so called Three Routes will be officially inaugurated on October 30th and 31st. The Three Routes are special walking trails which tell the story of the city trough three distinguishing colors: White, Blue and Green. The White… Read more →
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… Read more →
On the Ben Yehuda Street no. 8 you find a beautiful building, designed in the Eclectic-style in 1926 by Joseph Berlin. The building was in a bad state and restored (real nice) in 1998…but then the restoration/renovation architect got a black-out!! He added a glass-upper floor on this historic building, totally destroying the design of Joseph Berlin. I can’t understand… Read more →
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]
