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"swing" by JerusaLAB Architecture

2013-05-01T13:44:00-04:00

Israeli practice JerusaLAB Architecture has sent us a tiny but mighty project titled simply, swing: a seesaw penetrating the massive concrete border fence between Israel and Palestine.

"The project claims to portray the possibility for peaceful acts in the Israeli Palestinian environment where face to face relationships are absent," designers Elena Mann and Eldar Gantz explain.

"Placing a swing inside a concrete element of the separation wall is an act that requires a blind cooperation and trust. The work suggest a positive romantic view on a conflictual relationship manifested in concrete borderline disorder."

Project Credits:

Architects: Elena Mann & Eldar Gantz
JerusaLAB Architecture, Jerusalem

Elena Mann is an interdisciplinary designer based in London. Eldar Gantz is an architect/artist based in Jerusalem.

Herzog & de Meuron selected to design the National Library of Israel

2013-04-29T16:44:00-04:00

After extensive discussions, the panel decided to recommend the Swiss office of Herzog & de Meuron to be the architects for the National Library of Israel. The panel, which was already aware of the many significant works of these Pritzker prize laureates, was extraordinarily impressed by the commitment shown by Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron, as well as by the strengths and promise of their architectural approach...

Public architectural competitions in Israel - a double-edged sword?

2013-03-07T15:29:00-05:00

Design contests are considered a springboard to personal success, but they are nevertheless an inexhaustible source of friction and entanglement, with recurrent complaints over defects and shortcomings, and even corruption.

‘Fields of Knowledge’ by ShaGa Studio + Auerbach Halevy Architects

2013-02-20T19:50:00-05:00

Amsterdam-based firm SHaGa Studio and Israeli design partners Auerbach Halevy Architects have sent us 'Fields of Knowledge,' a design collaboration for a new sustainable education campus in Ramat Efal, Israel. In the competition for the design and construction of the innovative campus, the proposal was shortlisted from over 50 entries and awarded the second prize.

Pritzker Winner Eduardo Souto de Moura Honored with Israel’s Prestigious Wolf Prize

2013-01-03T14:07:00-05:00

Portuguese architect and 2011 Pritzker Prize winner Eduardo Souto de Moura was announced today as one of this year's laureates of Israel’s prestigious Wolf Prize. Souto de Moura is being honored for his achievements in architecture while other prizes are given to scientists in the fields of physics, mathematics, chemistry, and agriculture.

Amos Gitai sets up Israel's first architecture museum in memory of his father

2012-09-20T16:39:04-04:00

Famed filmmaker dedicates Haifa space to his father Munio Gitai Weinraub, a 'Bauhaus refugee' who single-handedly changed the city's landscape.

In Tel Aviv, Bauhaus rules

2012-03-30T18:12:00-04:00

Israel’s ages-old city, Jerusalem, is rightly famous for its warm, honey-colored limestone architecture. But its lazily hip rival, Tel Aviv, has lately begun garnering attention for a contrasting — and equally abundant — assemblage of cool and creamy Bauhaus buildings.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art opens its new Herta and Paul Amir Building tomorrow

2011-11-01T13:47:40-04:00

Tomorrow, November 2, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art will celebrate the public opening of its $55 million Herta and Paul Amir Building. The 195,000-square-foot building adds a visionary work of contemporary architecture to the Museum’s campus in the heart of Tel Aviv and provides a new international landmark for Israel’s cultural capital.

See also our recent in-depth ShowCase Feature on the building.

ISRAEL: More trying times for Wiesenthal's Museum of Tolerance

2011-10-04T12:12:22-04:00

Chyutin Architects is threatening to resign after the Wiesenthal Center withheld a scheduled payment over what center officials say is the architect’s failure to meet certain contractual obligations on the $100-million project, according to Wiesenthal spokesman Lior Chorev in Jerusalem.

Israel may build artificial island off Gaza Strip coast

2011-03-30T19:27:38-04:00

Environmentalists says plans, which also include hotels and a marina, are 'complete madness' and warn public to be sceptical

Yisrael Katz, the Israeli minister for transport, said the plan had been under consideration for many months and had been encouraged by Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister. He said it would also relieve Israel of the obligation to be the transit point for goods into the enclave.