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Neo-Romantic building in the Ha-Hasmal Street beautiful restored
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!! … Read entire article »
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The once Ben Nahum Hotel is today the place to be: Shampina
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 1921 by Judah Magidovitch, Tel Aviv’s first city engineer. Last September restoration works started on the … Read entire article »
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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 »
Filed under: architecture, art, city, future, history, life, restoration, theater
Alfas House needs a restoration badly
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 many years in a bad condition and is waiting for his saviour” … … Read entire article »
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Five historic buildings sold in Tel Aviv
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, the architect Uri Shitrit (who was yesterday arrested in Jerusalem, because one of the biggest building-fraude scandals ever in Israel!) made a new plan for the building and added three floors on top (!) of this historic building. Let’s hope that the Municipality of Tel Aviv will be ‘sane’ and won’t give permission to destroy another historic building in Tel Aviv, by putting floors on top of it! … Read entire article »
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Beautifully restored at Barzilay Street
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. … Read entire article »
Filed under: architecture, future, history, restoration
The Kiosk is serving again…
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. … Read entire article »
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The worst show in town
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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Foreign billionaire buys Tel Aviv flat for $7 million
Tel Aviv luxury towers continue to attract wealthy people from around the world. A Jewish billionaire purchased an apartment (600 square meters) at the new to build luxury tower at the Rothschild Boulevard no.17 (near Ahad-Ha’amstreet). The two old buildings (in the front of the tower) will be preserved. The tower will include 64 apartments. The land was purchased in February 2000 from the Banin family and the entire deal, including the land purchase, cost of construction and restoration of the two old buildings, is valued at….$121 million (!) … Read entire article »
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An other Bauhaus building sold
For the second time this month, a historic Bauhaus-building (1936) was sold to a group of investors. The building (560 square meters) on Dizingoff Street, near Frishmanstreet, was sold for NIS 21 million ($7 million). After the preservation and reconstruction works, the building will get three (!) more floors. The building will have, at the end, 24 apartments, each measures 55 square meters and two penthouses (sales-offers at this moment: $321.000 for an apartment). The two penthouse will be sold for nearly $2 million. The restoration architect will be Nitza Szmuk, who studied restauration in Florence. She fought for years, within-and outside the Municipality of Tel Aviv, for the Bauhaus buildings of Tel Aviv. She wrote a fantastic, historic book about the Bauhaus-buildings ( Hebrew and English/French): Dwellings on the Dunes and … Read entire article »
Filed under: architecture, exhibitions, history, restoration
Up against the wall
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 »
Filed under: architecture, history, restoration
Why add an upper-floor??
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 this urge from some of the Israeli restoration ‘architects’ to add upper glass-floors or glass-curtain walls on top of historical buildings. Did they ever heard (or – preferably – learned) about the word aesthetic?? … Read entire article »
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