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Fathi. The students were instructed to focus
on choice of materials, durability and safety.
Course Coordinator: Moshe Balasiano.
Architects: Marta Esterkin, Anat Lerner, and
Meir Ben Shoshan.
End of Year Industrial Design Exhibition
at the Hadassah Academic College, was
showcased under the title “Agents of Change”.
Based on social ideology, the CUBES project
by student Guy Vatkin suggests modular
residential units adapted to the environment.
Students at the Haifa Wizo Academic Center
focused this year on conveying activist
messages which, in their opinion, contribute
to political and social discourse… As if we
don’t have enough trouble with exaggerated
activism as it is.
An exhibition by graduates from HIT presents
work by dozens of young artists. Or Biran’s
project deals with the Dead Sea sink-holes
in order to raise public awareness of the
contamination of one of the world’s most
important natural resources.
Tutor: Gal Gaon.
Curator: Architect Udi Kramsky.
projects
Air Force School for Rescue and Evacuation.
Made of four blocks around a cone, the
central space is lit by a skylight, forming a
circle “resembling the beam of light cast by
the rescue helicopter”. Climate awareness
is demonstrated by self-shading, passive air
circulation working on the chimney effect,
and openings above the doors to improve
lighting and ventilation.
Rosenthal Architects – Oded Rosenthal,
Edith Rosenthal.
Project architect: Edith Rosenthal.
Sharon Architects has recently completed
two emergency hospitals: one for 600 beds
at the Tel Aviv Medical Center, and the
other for 2000 beds at the Rambam Medical
Center. The idea is based on transforming
underground parking lots into protected
hospitals sealed against gas, preparing
infrastructure and equipment in advance.
The hospitals are capable of functioning for
72 hours when disconnected from outside
infrastructures. Special emphasis has been
laid on rapid evacuation of patients through
underground passages.
That's it for this hot summer.
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awards and competitions
An apartment building designed by Architect,
Daniel Azrad, has won the title “the most
beautiful building in Ramat Gan”.
Kimmel Eshkolot Architects has won the
competition for the design of the Tal Campus
for women at the Lev Academic Center.
Architect Dan Eytan was awarded this year’s
Israel Prize for Architecture. Today, Eytan
runs an office together with his life partner
architect Ruth Lahav with whom he is
responsible for the renovation of the Tel Aviv
Museum of Art, which he and Itzhak Yashar
planned in 1964.
Conceptual competition for the design of
affordable housing in Paris aims to find
a flexible, creative model suitable for the
diverse population of the city.
Paris - a fantastic city... who needs more.
Registration deadline: 15/10/19.
An international competition for the design
of the Iceland Black Lava Fields Visitor
Center. Formed approximately 2300 years
ago by a volcanic eruption, the landscape
is shrouded in tales of mystery, serving as a
rich background for the design.
Registration deadline: 22/10/19.
The Ramat Gan Municipality has announced
an open competition for the design of “The
House on the Lake” at the Ramat Gan
National Park. Certified architects are invited
to participate.
Submissions deadline: Sunday, 15/9/19.
An international conceptual competition has
been announced by the International Book
Archives for the design of a Mobile Reading
Room. This relates to mobile libraries that
include a meditative space to encourage
reading. Don’t they call it smartphones
nowadays? Registration deadline: 18/10/19.
Submission by 15/11/19.
events & exhibitions
The Planning Administration responsible for
all the design fuck-ups in Israel, including
the insane problematic planning and
permit process, announced that it will not
recommend the extension of the National
Outline Plan 38, for reinforcement of buildings
in the event of earthquakes. Occasionally
disguised as act of “evacuation construction”
process, the plan will probably not be
cancelled since that might impact the income
of entrepreneurs who motivate the regime,
despite the fact that they are indifferent
to the fact that the method is not in the
interests of older apartment owners, due to
their inability to cope mentally, economically
or emotionally with the uprooting from their
natural environment for four to five years, not
to mention the prohibitive expenses involved.
The festivities marking the 100th anniversary
of the Bauhaus, operative for only 14 years
before the Nazis ordered its closure, but
nonetheless becoming an international
symbol. The relevance to us stems from the
fact that several Israeli architects who went
to study there during the 20s’, established
the local version of the International Style in
the 30’s upon their return. This is still evident
in various cities like Haifa, Herzeliya, Tel
Aviv, (which managed to persuade UNESCO
to name it “white city”), and Jerusalem with
her no less important neighbourhoods like
Rehavia, Talpiot, Beit Hakerem and Kiryat
Moshe. Neighborhoods that were designed
by Richard Kaufman who studied architecture
in Munich and not at Bauhaus.
Hence, Israel joins in the festival with a
number of exhibitions, prominent among
them: “Those Who Transformed Sand Dunes
into Streets” at the Bauhaus Center, and a
thematic exhibition at the Israel Museum
Youth Wing “Bauhaus: Tools are Broken, but
We Still Play”.
“Through the Lens of Faith: Auschwitz” - an
outdoor photography exhibition, marking 75
years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-
Birkenau Concentration Camp, Poland.
Curator: Dr. Henry Lustiger Thaler.
Installation designer: Daniel Libeskind.
Photographer and Curator: Caryl Englander.
Closing: October, 2020.
Dealing with the subject of climate aware
construction, the exhibition “Solar Guerilla: A
Constructive Response to Climate Change”,
now at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, focuses
on the case study of Chicago, Masdar, Hong
Kong, London, Copenhagen, Shanghai, Tel
Aviv and New York.
Curator: Maya Vinitsky.
Closing: 12/12/19.
students
The Carriage Race Project that took place at
Ariel University with first year students in the
Basic Design course, focused on the subject
of sustainability. Eighteen carriages were
designed, inspired by international architects
such as: Alvar Alto, Renzo Piano, Peter
Zumothor from Switzerland, and Hassan
rachel ben aharon