אדריכלות ישראלית - גיליון 108

46 / 96

Curiosity Architecture of Israel # 108 | February 2017 | page english
42
51
4
סקרנות - מדור ביקורתי לסיקור ארועים
the water front of the Kineret, the Ginosar
Cultural House was abandoned about
twenty years ago, after brief use as a library.
About a year ago, a Kibbutz member took a
private initiative to renovate the deteriorating
building, turning it into gracefully designed
rental work spaces.
Design: Orit Steiner.
students
The Technion Architecture faculty awarded
prizes to last year's excellent students.
First prize went to Nir Pollack for his project
“Human Spaces and the Machine in Future
Technology", supervised by Architects
Shmaya Zarfati and Jonathan Natyanan.
Second prize went to Maram Naamana for
her project – Fauda - a rehabilitative project
for a distressed neighborhood in the village
of Jisr as-Zarqa, supervised by Architects
Gaby Schwartz, Fatina-Zbeidat, and Ronen
Ben-Aryeh.
Third prize went to Yamit Avital for her project
"Another Country", supervised by Architects
Ganit Kassif Meizlitz and Liat Miller.
First prize in the Department of Landscape
Architecture was awarded to Michal Vollner
for her project “Watershed”.
Second prize was awarded to Nariman
Ksabra for her project "Available Space".
Moria Orit Avitan won an Honorable Mention
for her project “It Will Rise from the Ashes”.
All Landscape Architecture projects were
supervised by architects Matanya Zak, Ram
Eisenberg, Dafna Grinstein, Naomi Angel,
and Shachar Tzur.
The Niksir Award for the audience’s favorite
project was given to Elina Gardashnik for
her project "Urban Disorder", supervised
by architects Oren Ben-Avraham, Iris
Kashman, and Oren Shachar.
Exhibition of the Bezalel Master program
was held at the Hansen House Design -
Media and Technology Center, Jerusalem.
That's all for this quarter.
Please write in,
Rachel
curiosity
never make a mistake…
In the article about the multi-purpose
building at Nahal Soreq (AI#106), designed
by Poreh Ya'akobi Karni Architects, two
names from the design team were left
out: Associate Architect Uri Poreh and
Construction Engineer Yaron Gal.
awards & competitions
The 2016 Rechter Prize for Architecture
was awarded to Architect Asaf Lerman for
his redesign of the Soraya and Younes
Nazarian library at Haifa University. The
judges commented that the addition of
building areas to the monumental building,
originally designed by Oscar Niemeyer,
digging into the topography and expanding it
horizontally, was complex and unique. This
resulted in the addition of significant public
space, as well as lighting and ventilating the
spaces within the original building.
Following the failed efforts of the Architects
Association to improve the conditions of
the Technion medical students' dormitory
competition, it withdrew from administering
the competition and decided to announce a
conceptual competition of its own, in order
to cheer up the few architects who oppose
disregard for their dignity from any clerk
given the power to do so.
A competition for selected architects for
redesigning public space in western Rishon
Lezion, was won by Guggenheim Bloch
Architects. Initiated by the Engineering
Department, the aim was to connect two
important commercial poles – The Gold Mall
in the north, and the G Mall in the south. The
judges noted that the architects presented
a programmatic idea that would generate a
lively, multi-use area, in case the Light Rail
ever gets there from Tel Aviv.
events
Architect Dr. Eran Neuman, Head of the
Azrieli School of Architecture at Tel Aviv
University, has been appointed Director
of the Israel Museum. Head of the Digital
Laboratory for Architecture Research and
the Tel Aviv Museum Architecture Archives,
Neuman will replace James Snyder who
is stepping down after 20 years. Dr. Eran
Neuman graduated from the Architecture
Department at Bezalel and received his PhD
from the Architecture History and Theory
Program at the University of California.
Israel United Architects Association will
hold its elections in March 2017. Eligible
for election are members of the Association
who paid their membership fee for 2016 or
2017. Candidates may apply simultaneously
for several positions before 01/03/17. The
names of the candidates will be published on
22/03/17. The elections will be determined
by a computerized system.
Planned in 2010 by Ron Arad, the Design
Museum Holon was ranked sixth place
among the “Coolest design museums in the
world” by The Telegraph. Also on the list:
Design Museum London, The Vitra Design
Museum in Germany, and The Museum of
Arts and Design (MAD) in New York.
exhibitions
Entire Life in a Package - Exhibition by
artist Orna Ben Ami will take place at the
UN Building, New York, between 27/2/17 –
10/03/17. Focusing on the human aspects
of refugees, some of the works use Reuters
pictures, erasing some details, while metal
sculptures highlight their features of pain.
The Munio Gitai Weinraub Museum for
Architecture in Haifa is currently showing an
exhibition focused on the Bedouin School
Kan al-Ahmar. Built in 2009 from recycled
materials, by the Italian organization Vento
Di Terra for the Jahalin community near
Maaleh Adumim, the Civil Administration’s
decision to demolish it was rejected by the
Supreme Court. The exhibition is intended
to reinforce its existence. Closing: 23/03/17.
Artist Roy Menachem Markovich exhibition
- Good Grief is showing at Herzliya Artist's
House. In the style of “objets trouvés” the
exhibition includes scrap items found on
the street - unneeded remnants of life. The
exhibition is accompanied by a video tour in
an anonymous German town.
11/2/17 – 25/3/17.
Curator: Ran Kasmi Ilan.
Israel Caricature and Comics Museum,
Holon will present three exhibitions of ever
relevant super-heroes and historical events.
9/3/17 – 14/10/17.
Curator: Michal Paz-Kelp.
Project
Built in 1958 by Architect Michael Kuhn on
rachel ben aharon