Noam Dvir
By Noam Dvir
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The Schmooze A Fading Beauty Outside Safed
Crossposted from Haaretz No one seems to question the historical and architectural importance of Bosel House, a spacious, eight-dunam compound in a green forest at the entrance to Safed. It is a splendid building in a European-Arab style, an important icon of the glory days of modern architecture in Israel. Bosel House has been at…
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The Schmooze Tel Aviv Port Wins Barcelona Architecture Prize
Crossposted from Haaretz The renovation of the Tel Aviv Port has earned the two architects who designed the public spaces there the award for outstanding landscape architecture in Europe at the Euorpean Biennial for Landscape Architecture, in Barcelona. The recognition, given in spite of the fact that Israel is not technically part of the continent,…
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The Schmooze In Israel, Cubism of a Different Sort
Crossposted from Haaretz New cottage neighborhoods in west Rishon Letzion symbolize the suburbanization of Israel. The process can be found in stretches between Hadera and Ashdod, where middle-class residents chase their dream of a high quality of life near cities. The most visible traits of this phenomenon are conformism and uniformity: the same furnishings, the…
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