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Historic Cinema Tel Aviv is gone…

November 5th, 2010 | Comments Off

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 !! What a shame :( … Read entire article »

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Enough is enough

August 2nd, 2010 | 1 Comment

The Municipality of Tel Aviv started to build another (!!) enormous tower on the historic Rothschild Boulevard (the part between Herzl- and Allenby Street). Enough is enough, ain’t it??!! Were is ex-city engineer Israel Goodevitch? At least he had the guts(!!) to say no to highrise on the Boulevard… … 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 »

Filed under: architecture, history, restoration

What about the UNESCO protection of our inner-city?

April 29th, 2009 | Comments Off

On the corner of Rotschild Boulevard and Allenbey Street is a big building-site at this moment. On this spot will arise an other, ugly high-rise tower: the so called ‘The Meir on Rotschild Tower’ designed by the American architect: Richard Meir. Unit prices in the 27 floor high tower will start (!) at 1.3 million Euro. ‘If I am not wrong’, this spot is within the inner-city of Tel Aviv, protected by the UNESCO as a World Heritage site? (since July 2003) … Read entire article »

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“What a difference a day made”

April 24th, 2009 | 4 Comments

In the Jehuda Ha-Leviestreet no.36 you will find the beautiful restored Mani House, a two-storey building constructed during the Ahuzat Bayit period. The building is constructed of sandstone and abounds with stylized carpentry, metalwork, plaster decor, murals and patterned ceilings and floors. The owners, Bank Leumi, wished to build an office high-rise adjacent to the existing tower, whose original design called for razing (!!) the Mani residence. When the Mani House was placed on the conservation list, tearing it down was no longer an option. Bank Leumi met the challenge of building a new tower in a constricted area, while conserving the existing building on the site. After architectural and historical documentation of the building (that was in a very bad state at that moment, see picture) and a full and … Read entire article »

Filed under: architecture, future, history

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