Tel Aviv-Yaffo Projects

Urban Legend · Aug 28, 2010

Time for a new one.

Tel Aviv Projects No. 2

erelh · Apr 20, 2024

99 Dizengoff

Shekem House in yaffo has been on hold for a few years now.
Great to see some progress!

usuallyc · Apr 21, 2024

they built a huge skate park in the parts of the Charles Chlore works that haven’t finished. This is an amazing addition, and much much needed. Skaters would skate between pedestrians and people running, and now they’ll have a really big space suited for them only

miloss26 · Apr 21, 2024

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they built a huge skate park in the parts of the Charles Chlore works that haven’t finished. This is an amazing addition, and much much needed. Skaters would skate between pedestrians and people running, and now they’ll have a really big space suited for them only

it's really great, it makes me think directly of Los Angleles

erez · Apr 22, 2024

I despise these skate "parks" wasting so much space in actual parks.
A. there are not parks. in fact the opposite: a vast concrete space with zero trees.
B. they bring huge noise, graffiti and get trashed very quickly
C. they take huge space from all other uses just for skating which is very niche.
D. this "sport" results in non-stop injured youths

very bad decision.

AwesomeDude1236 · Apr 22, 2024

The point of this park is for sports and recreation, albeit more specialized

usuallyc · Apr 22, 2024

People who want to skate will skate regardless. This only gives them a space that’s both better for them and allows them not to bother the rest of the people around.

No one is advocating for skate parks every 100 meters, but a single skate park in a place thats already being used as one all over and that has no spaces to skate comfortably and without disturbing others nearby (to put it mildly) is a great decision.

erez · Apr 22, 2024

will skate regardless of what?
if you put a sign no bikes or skates on promenade they will skate and be fined
and next time wont skate there. very simple its called municipal laws.

Nikfil99 · Apr 22, 2024

Nice project

usuallyc · Apr 22, 2024

True. Just like people not riding on scooters against the direction of the streets, stealing red traffic lights, riding without a helmet on, or on side walks, or cars and motorcycles not parking on side walks and bike paths, motorcycles not riding on bike paths or sidewalks, among other activities that don’t ever happen in Tel Aviv. Fines have worked wonders for those.

Infrastructure is what works, not fines. People will skate and deserve infrastructure that allows them to do that comfortably without disturbing others (as much as possible). A pretty big park that’s away from any residential zones and connected to one of the best bike ways in Tel Aviv is the perfect place for the noise of a skate park not to disturb people.

erez · Apr 23, 2024

people will skate / ride / park / drive where they are not allowed,
they will get fines, and they will learn not to do that again
just like the fines on cars entering bus lanes was very succesful to stop them.
nobody drives in it anymore because - you get fined
regulating all modes of traffic and fines are also part of the infrastructure of any city.

erelh · Apr 23, 2024

9 Salame

usuallyc · Apr 24, 2024

Nope. Fines work on those cause they’re done by cameras thus being consistent and effective, and mainly because there’s infrastructure to accommodate a different path. If there wasn’t infrastructure people would drive on PT lanes just like they park on sideways in Tel Aviv despite the fines they get (more inconsistently since they’re given by human agents, but people assume they’ll get one when they park there).

Not a great argument when you ignore all of the examples where fines don’t work. Fines are an effective way of educating the public and making sure they stick to reasonable demands once the infrastructure is there for them to behave differently, any other use is frustrating and ineffective.

erelh · Apr 29, 2024

2 really nice projects on Elkhanan street

gabi adelman · May 3, 2024

A small building that manages not one, but two clever quotations of the TA architecture from days gone by: at street level, the small windows over the large ones remind of the old commercial properties from the South of the city; and the trissim are a nice throw-back to Mandate memes. This happens when a talented professional is given the job. AltNOY indeed!

erelh · Apr 30, 2024

Small midrise project in north Tel Aviv

Itay · May 2, 2024

2.05.24
Pinkas-Weizmann

miloss26 · May 3, 2024

It rocks

gabi adelman · May 3, 2024

Where's this?

erelh · May 3, 2024

@gabi adelman I found higher quality renders for both projects on Google

Elkhanan1 · May 5, 2024

Yes, I really love the re-invention of the trissim. Yaniv Pardo Architects did a great job here. The port project is amazing too and uses those laser-cut, sliding sunshades beautifully. I forget who the architect is. I think it's Bar Orian. I'm glad it's almost finishe...finally. Many / most of the other projects in this thread are also gems.

gabi adelman · May 5, 2024

Aesthetic trends don't cease to fascinate me. I agree, the one with the laser-cut motifs is lovely...yet think about it: when International Style architecture started, it had a precise agenda: to do away with unnecessary ornament. We seem to have come full-circle, since this building is, actually, nothing but ornament - otherwise, it's just a bland shoebox. Herein lies a threat, I think, as architects might start doing away with proportions, masses and volumes, solid walls and openings, and just go for a nice candy-wrap.

erelh · 2024-05-06T18:38:42-0400

I have to say I really love this tower. Yashar did a fantastic job, I especially love the Art Deco influence!

Elkhanan1 · 2024-05-10T01:14:06-0400

It should've been taller and thinner, IMO.

Nikfil99 · 2024-05-10T08:28:49-0400

Yaffo

Elkhanan1 · 2024-05-10T19:05:17-0400

@Nikfil99 Are those two different projects or two views of the same project?

Nikfil99 · 2024-05-11T02:58:45-0400

Different

Nikfil99 · 2024-05-11T15:19:13-0400

Projects on Sderot David HaMelech

gabi adelman · 2024-05-12T11:57:24-0400

gabi adelman said:
You make a good

As always, you make a good point. The problem, to my eye, is that a building whose exterior is, as in this case, nothing but a huge shutter, somehow misses the point of what we've been used to call architecture. Maybe it's our definition of that art that needs revision, but under the current one, such a building, though lovely, is, so to speak, not so much non-architectural, as a-architectural.

Elkhanan1 said:
I don't think it's a-architectural and I think you'll change your mind when you see variation with the shutters, ie, when they're placed in countless positions. Then you'll see the rhythm of the façades, the "musicality" of the architecture. I think what you're reacting to is the current stasis with the shutters. That'll change when the building is occupied. Here's Ilan Pivko's "Oro" project in Jaffa to illustrate my point.

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Well, I'm convinced. Consider me an adept. Architecture as a perpetual "happening", what a lovely thing! Thanks for your enlightening words and pictures.

Elkhanan1 · 2024-05-13T00:46:44-0400

@gabi adelman My pleasure. Israel is blessed with a ton of amazing architects, like Ilan Pivko.

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