Noam Dvir
By Noam Dvir
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The Schmooze Israel’s National Library Redesigns Despite Protests
Crossposted from Haaretz Over the vocal protests of hundreds of Israeli architects, the National Library is moving forward with a controversial competition to select a firm to design its new home. Earlier this year, over 750 Israeli architects called on the organizers of the competition to call it off and launch a new one. The…
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The Schmooze Colonial Room With a View
Crossposted from Haaretz Standing in the sunken garden at the bottom of the former British High Commissioner’s headquarters in Armon Hanatziv, a neighborhood in southeast Jerusalem, it’s easy to imagine the cocktail parties once held here by British Mandate officials. Members of Arab and Jewish high society would gather with them under the arched portico,…
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The Schmooze Slow Demise of Modernist Bus Building
Crossposted from Haaretz The Egged bus company building is unlike any other office building erected in Tel Aviv during the course of the 20th century. It hunkers on a large corner lot located on Menachem Begin Road, overlooking the Ayalon Highway and the city’s eastern neighborhoods, and looks like a cross between a Histadrut labor…
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The Schmooze Architect Plans to Bridge West Bank and Gaza
Crossposted from Haaretz French Jewish architect Marc Mimram has an idea that borders on the utopian: to build a huge, multistoried bridge stretching 37 kilometers in order to physically connect the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the two areas under Palestinian Authority rule. The plan, made public for the first time in the pages…
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The Schmooze Italian Architect to Build Green Schools in Gaza
Crossposted from Haaretz For the past year Italian architect Mario Cucinella has been heading a UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) project to build 20 sustainable schools in the Gaza Strip. The planning for the first environmentally-friendly school, to be built in Khan Yunis, is now in the final stages. The building will serve about…
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The Schmooze Competition to Design National Library of Israel
Crossposted from Haaretz The National Library of Israel is staging an architectural competition for a new $100 million facility in Jerusalem. The privately funded building will be one of the largest public construction projects in Israel in the coming decade, about the size of the Supreme Court, and has already stirred considerable interest in Israel…
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The Schmooze Architecture Museum to Open in Haifa
Crossposted from Haaretz Director Amos Gitai, one of the best-known figures in the Israeli cinema, is establishing Israel’s first museum of architecture. Slated to open in March of next year in Haifa, in cooperation with the local municipality, it will be housed in the studio where Gitai’s father, Munio Gitai Weinraub, used to work. Gitai…
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The Schmooze Ending the Lack of Occupation in Jerusalem
Crossposted from Haaretz Uri Even-Haim has a thing for abandoned homes. Each week, the fifth-year architecture student at the Bezalel Academy sets off around the capital’s downtown in search of forgotten buildings whose owners have disappeared. “Usually, they are old Jerusalem homes, beautiful buildings with stone arches or unique features,” he said. “Sometimes they hide…
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