Towers

Frits on May 13th, 2010

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 [...]

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Frits on October 29th, 2009

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. [...]

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Frits on June 6th, 2009

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 [...]

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Frits on May 21st, 2009

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 [...]

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