New Israel architecture projects with building news and architectural images, plus architects background. Israeli building news from across this small Middle East country.
Take a look at Top Audio, Herzliya Pituach – on the waterfront just north of Tel Aviv by Hila and Dan Israelevitz. The new office and showroom complex is for one of the country’s leading companies in the smart home and audio-video systems field.
Finally take a look at Dead Sea Desert Hotel by Bar Orian Architects in collaboration with Lambs & Lions Studio. This new luxury resort planned for the Judean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea is scheduled to open in 2025.
The 109 room-and-suite property will be built on a plot of land with an area of nearly five acres.
Design: Studio de Lange, Architects. Titled ‘Aluminum Vested Home’ this property is located in one of central Israel’s earliest communities, and sitting on a hilly 1000 m² plot. The house was created for a young family of 5.
Design: Roy David Studio. The new workspace designed for, Jelly Button Games and Hamutzim Studio, two companies sharing the same roof & founders, was a great challenge for the Architect Roy David, founder of the Tel Aviv based Architecture and Interior Design Studio.
Design: Tal Goldsmith Fish Design Studio. The house was planned for a couple holding senior positions, who decided to move their offices to their home so as to be with their young children throughout the day.
This house in Tel Aviv designed by Israelevitz Architects is full of contradictions, between sealed and closed, to open to natural light and to the outside area. Contradictions between colors and drama of volumes.
Design: Ron Shenkin studio for architecture & design. The structure functions as a place of convergence of mourners and for the reading of eulogies prior to and during the burial. It’s essential nature is that of a pavilion or open sided shelter and is located next to the cemetery.
Proposals were evaluated on the basis of their industrial, social and urban feasibility as part of the ambition to advance a broader transformation of urban spaces in Israel and in other contexts with similar climates.
Design: Rona Meyuchas Koblenz, rmkdesignoffice. Rona Meyuchas Koblenz designer and owner of rmkdesignoffice has just completed work on a bespoke lighting project which she was commissioned to create by the Aviv Group Israel.
Design: Pitsou Kedem Architects. This unconventional design by Pitsou Kedem blurs the borders between private space and outdoor space. In a new building, in the old north of Tel Aviv, a unique penthouse covering an entire floor of some 600 square meters, is open and transparent in four directions.
Design: Geotectura / Axelrod-Grobman Architects / Chen Architects. In a milestone for sustainable building in Israel, the Porter School of Environmental Studies Building has been inaugurated, providing space for environmental teaching, research, exhibitions, conferences and demonstrations of environmental technologies. The EcoBuilding includes a Capsule suspended high over the atrium and the EcoWall, a thermal-solar tubes system for energy production.
Design: Pitsou Kedem Architects. A one story, private residence in the center of the country. The architectural concept was to create a structure with a continuous, wide space, divided by internal courtyards and movable partitions into smaller spaces used for a variety of different functions.
Design: Pitsou Kedem Architects. A frontal courtyard excavated to a depth of three meters and the second courtyard at the level of the building’s ground floor. This topographical interface creates a unique cross section to the building’s mass with each part of the building, even the section constructed as a basement, being open to its own courtyard.
The Wohl Centre, a major expansion to the Bar-Ilan University Campus in Ramat- Gan, Israel, is the central convention center for the university, utilized for university programs and special events.
The clients wanted a modern house without levels, open, but with intimate corners for the family. It was important for the couple to stay at the same neighborhood, but to build a house according to their new needs.
In the 1950s what was known as the “International Style” was highly developed in Tel Aviv. It developed thanks to architects who studied at the Bauhaus Institute in Germany and who then returned to Israel to continue their work.
The planned Check-Point Building for the Faculty of Computer Science and for science-oriented youth is located in the center of the campus, between the buildings of the Physics and Mathematics Faculties and the Dan David building.
The house was built on a hard, oblong, narrow, trapezoidal plot in a zone of 750 sqm, the house surface itself is 250 sqm including a public space, a work space and four bedrooms.
The scheme proposes to combine the ancient building complex with the new one by a central space. This allows observation from the ancient part to the new and vice versa, while it gives a new vertical dimension to the typology of the patio hinted at the ancient remains.
The challenge in this scheme was to add a second house to the site in such a way that both will create an assembly of space and activity between the two families and still allow division and privacy.
