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Adler House at Ahad Ha’am Street destroyed

September 19th, 2010 | 1 Comment

One of the first buildings constructed in Tel Aviv was demolished last week to make way for a new…tower block. The Adler House at the Ahad Ha’am Street no.26 was built in 1910 and was first owned by Yisrael Yehuda Adler, a teacher and one of the founders of the famous Gymnasium Herzliya (also destroyed for a tower!). The Adler House was originally placed on the municipality’s building preservation list. A spokesman for the Tel Aviv Municipality said that all the components of the Adler House have been marked and documented, and that the building will be reconstructed on another site. (Yes, of course..at the Dead Sea !!!) … Read entire article »

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Municipality TLV: no new skyscrapers in center

May 13th, 2010 | 3 Comments

So sometimes there is good news coming from the offices of the Municipality of Tel Aviv: the Municipality’s Planning and Construction Committee decided yesterday not to approve building of any new tower in the city center (just like places as Amsterdam and Paris). According to an outline plan for 2025 high-risers will be concentrated in the city’s East-Side. Ron… Kol Ha Kavod !!! … Read entire article »

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Foreign billionaire buys Tel Aviv flat for $7 million

October 29th, 2009 | Comments Off

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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Highrise towers in Neve-Tsedek

June 6th, 2009 | 1 Comment

I am very ‘happy’ with the article by Raz Smolsky and Guy Liberman: “The towers of Tel Aviv” in Ha’aretz (June the 5th). It was time that also the daily newspapers in Israel would write about those ugly highrise around the beautiful neighborhood of Neve-Tsedek. Those ‘empty‘ towers are build for the rich French and Americans, who will ‘visit‘ their million $ apartments during the Jewish holidays. It is a crying shame: they are building a ‘wall‘ around Neve-Tsedek!!! Maybe, this time we can stop them?! Inhabitants of Neve-Tsedek tried before, even in long court battles…so, for those new ugly plans by the Municpality of Tel Aviv, we should start again a strong grass-roots movement(!!) : “Save Neve-Tsedek, Stop those ugly high-rise!!” … Read entire article »

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Those ugly towers!

May 21st, 2009 | Comments Off

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 »

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