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The “House of Jars”

On no.16 at the Nahalat-Binyamin Street, corner Rambam Street, you will find a beautiful large building designed in 1925 by Zeev Rechter: the House of Jars. On the Rambam Street the building is designed with half-domes. The facade on each side is symmetrical, using Greek amphora’s as decoration. Taller then the surrounding buildings and more exposed, the building has been declared as dangerous and all the tenants moved out. It needs badly a restoration!!! … Read entire article »

Filed under: architecture, restoration

Those ugly towers!

Two days ago, I was walking on the Nahalat-Binyamin, one of the loveliest streets in Tel Aviv, with lots of restaurants, bars and twice a week an exciting art market. But the view of this street, with some beautiful buildings from around 1920 is ruined by the ‘sight” of an other ugly high-rise nearby: a part of the so-called “Lev Hair” (Heart of the City) project, ‘designed’ by Adi Karmi (she is the sister of Ram Karmi, who is destroying at this moment the once beautiful Habima-building). Not so long ago, architect and the ‘enfant-terrible’ of the Israeli Architecture, Israel Goodevich, wrote a fantastic book (only in Hebrew) about this high-rise in Tel Aviv, called: “40 x 40″ (200 pages with great color-pictures) … Read entire article »

Filed under: architecture, books, history, restoration

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