The Neo-Romantic building, designed in 1924, in the Ha-Hasmalstreet no.10 is a real beauty again after 18 month of restoration-work. The now colorful facade is shining: a great job is done here!!
Last Saturday afternoon I did visit an afternoon-party at the Shampina Bar on Rothschild Boulevard 32. The place was crowded and swinging with the ‘to be seen folks’ of Tel Aviv. You will find the Shampina in the once Ben Nahum Hotel, the beautiful building with this special roof-top on the corner of Rothschild Boulevard and Allenby Street, designed in… Read more →
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… Read more →
The Alfas House build in the Eclectic Style in Balfourstreet no.4 was designed in 1924 by Alexander Levy; the same architect who designed the beautiful Pagoda House on the King George Square. The 559 square meters building with his impressive, redish facade is slated for preservation under very strict restrictions, which do not permit additional construction. The building is now… Read more →
At Jehuda HaLevie Street no.6 the most expensive penthouse in the inner city of Tel Aviv was sold for NIS 18 million ($ 5.5 million). The building, designed in 1921 by Eliazer Yellin and Wilhelm Hecker was beautiful restored by Amnon Bar-Or, who added the glass-penthouse.
The construction & development company Dimri bought, last week, 5 historic buildings in-and around the Nahalat-Benyaminstreet for NIS 140.7 million (around: $45.- million). All the buildings are slated for preservation. One of the buildings is the famous ‘House with the Pillars’, designed in 1925 by Jehoeda Magidowitch, Tel Aviv’s first City Engineer, in Rambamstreet no. 12-16. A few years ago,… Read more →
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.
Last week, the 3rd kiosk in Tel-Aviv, on the corner of Allenby Street and Rothschild Boulevard started serving again. The famous kiosk was for many, many years in a horrible state and is beautiful restored.
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… Read more →
