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: 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.
The Ice cream parlor of Leggenda chain in Rothschild Avenue in Tel Aviv, is one of dozens of the company branches, designed by our office. The concept, like in the other stores, is to create a unique sales ice cream vitrine, embedded into a complete unit with the sales display of the ice cream and the yogurt.
The BBC Middle East Bureau is located on the 15th floor of the tower building at the Malha Technological Park in Jerusalem. The bureau functions as a hub for the entire Middle East for the BBC News, BBC World Service, BBC Arabic and BBC Persian language broadcasting programs.
As far as location, the view from the site opens up to the south overlooking the landscape of a vineyard. The constraint is the view also faces the direct desert sun.
Pritzker Prize-Winning SANAA Unveils Final Plans for Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design New Downtown Jerusalem Campus in Collaboration with Nir-Kutz Architects.
The new Master Plan for the Ben-Gurion Campus 101-0661176, clearly marks a conceptual shift which is intended to gradually transform Rupin Road into the main axis of the Government Compound of Giv’at Ram.
The chosen site for the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in the Russian Compound, calls for the creation of a compound within a compound.