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Troubles, troubles, troubles in paradise… and in- and around Habima Theater

April 26th, 2011 | Comments Off

Troubles, troubles, troubles in paradise… and in- and around Habima Theater

We wrote many times on Tel Aviv Fever about the ‘strange’ restoration project of the Habima Theater done by architect Ram Karmi. But now also the designer of the new plaza near Habima: the sculptor Dani Karavan joined the chorus of complaining about the whole project and the two top ” artists ” are blaming each other! In this article by Noam Dvir in the Haaretz Magazine: “Squaring off in Tel Aviv”, Dani Karavan has … Read entire article »

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Ram Karmi, the ‘gentleman’ architect

October 8th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Just watched the Israeli Channel 10 News yesterday with an item about the ‘renovation’ of the once so beautiful Habima Theater, designed in 1935 by Richard Kaufmann. The reporter asked the renovation architect Ram Karmi the following quite relevant questions: “Why was there no public discussion about this renovation-project? Why was there no tender issued to select the architect? Why the budget went from NIS 31 million to NIS160 million? Why are there old components missing? Why the sub-contractor went to court to stop the project? Why the opening date changed from last December to the Summer of 2011?” The amazing answer of the ‘gentleman’ architect was: “Everybody can kiss my arse!!”  Before on Tel Aviv Fever where Habima was mentioned: HERE … Read entire article »

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The worst show in town

November 9th, 2009 | 1 Comment

A very good commentary I did find in Ha’aretz, November the 6th: “The worst show in town” about the ‘rape’ (so called restoration) of our national theater building Habima by the (so called) architect Ram Karmi. The editor of Ha’aretz wrote,e.g: “When every city resident wanting to expand a window or close off a balcony must go trough the purgatory of municipal red tape, it is puzzling that such brutal, environment-altering structure could have emerged (an enormous block of concrete, sealed by walls, rising like a dam along the street) in such an attractive part of central Tel-Aviv…” … Read entire article »

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An other landmark in Tel Aviv destroyed?

October 15th, 2009 | 1 Comment

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 »

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Up against the wall

September 6th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Three years ago, I wrote on my FaceBook Page: Architecture of Tel-Aviv 1909-1938 about the destructive restauration/renovation plans of the Municipality of Tel Aviv for our national theater: Habima (at the end of Rothschild Boulevard) designed in 1934 by Oscar Kaufmann. Also on our website Tel Aviv Fever, we wrote the last three month a few articles (here and here ) about the ‘rape‘ of Habima. The so called restoration architect Ram Karmi is building a concrete monster (he added two concrete floors) and the front of Habima (all green glass) will be like a shopping-mall. This weekend in the Haaretz-Magazine there was (the neighborhoud started to be awake!) a long article about this culture-crime of Habima, written by Yossi Klein. He writes: “Suddenly, on Tel Aviv’s Tarsat Street, a giant … Read entire article »

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Ram, what the ‘h*ll’ are you doing with ‘our’ Habima??

April 6th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Since October 2006, the architect Ram Karmi is “restoring” the Habima-theatre (Tarsat-boulevard no. 2). The whole area around Habima is looking like a disaster zone; and as it looks today, Karmi is creating an ‘architectural monster’. He is adding two floors and the famous stone columns of Habima will be hidden behind a glass-wall, while the facades on the side-streets are one big wall of concrete. It is the same Ram Karmi, who wrote an article in Ha’aretz (June 27th 2005) against the restoration-plans of the Mann Auditorium, under the headlines:“Toppling the temple of culture”… he wrote: “…the Kolker-Kolker-Epstein architectural firm, which is participating in this ruthless (!!) and destructive (!!) renovation-process, is entering the ‘temple’ without removing his shoes, in order to serve (!!) the stiff-necked imperviousness of the buildings … Read entire article »

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