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Tel Aviv: Dizengoff Center
The Dizengoff Center was Israel’s first mall and was built over a period of eleven years, from 1972 to 1983. The first stores opened in 1977 and today it has a total of 420 sores. The Dizengoff Center is partly blamed for declined business on nearby…
Tel Aviv: Former I.B.M Building, Cityscape (Weizmann Branch)
The I.B.M. Building, now known as Weizmann Branch and occupied by law offices, was designed in the 1970s by the architectural firm Yasky & Partners. The buildings unique design places it on a single solid stone foundation and utilizes curved…
Jerusalem: New City
This photograph looks toward the New City district of Jerusalem. In contrast to the historical and religiously significant architecture of the old city, the New City’s skyline is ripe with modernist architecture and skyscrapers in the international…
Tel Aviv: Urban Greenery, Residential Neighborhood
This photograph of a residential street in Tel Aviv shows traces of Scottish planner Patrick Geddes plan in the narrow street and the patches of greenery. The Geddes Plan, drafted in 1926, attempted to design Tel Aviv in the style of garden cities, a…
Tel Aviv: International Style in Residential Architecture
The Geddes Plan, which drew influence from the garden city movement, is illustrated in this photograph of a residential street in Tel Aviv. Drafted in 1926 and put into effect in 1927, the plan favoured the city dweller, regulating everything from…
Tel Aviv: Residential Street
The International style dominates residential structures in Tel Aviv developed between the 1920s and 1960s. Patrick Geddes, at the request of Mayor Dizengoff, drafted a plan for the city that was adjusted for the comfort of the pedestrian. This…
Tel Aviv: Aerial (6 of 6)
Tel Aviv quickly earned the nickname the White City, and from this photograph (5 of 6) it’s easy to see where it came from. The city’s architecture is overwhelmingly in the International and Bauhaus style. The architecture is designed to favor…
Tel Aviv: Aerial (5 of 6)
Tel Aviv quickly earned the nickname the White City, and from this photograph (5 of 6) it’s easy to see where it came from. The city’s architecture is overwhelmingly in the International and Bauhaus style. The architecture is designed to favor…
Tel Aviv: Aerial (4 of 6), Former I.B.M. Building
This image shows the urban density of Tel Aviv, Israel’s primary city. At the extreme left, peaking over the horizon, is the former I.B.M building, designed by Yasky & Partners in the 1970s. Quite literally in the shadow of the I.B.M. Building…
Tel Aviv: Aerial (3 of 6) - City Hall at Rabin Square, Former I.B.M Building
This aerial image of Tel Aviv shows some structures of note, including the Tel Aviv City Hall at Rabin Square (far left) and the former I.B.M. Building on Weizmann Street (far right), designed by Yasky & Partners.
Tel Aviv quickly earned the…
Tel Aviv: Aerial (2 of 6)
Tel Aviv quickly earned the nickname the White City, and from this photograph (2 of 6) it’s easy to see where it came from. The city’s architecture is overwhelmingly in the International and Bauhaus style. The architecture is designed to favor…
Tel Aviv: Aerial (1 of 6)
This photograph (1 of 6) shows the Tel Aviv beach, a major economic asset to the city, which was realized as early as the 1920s. Also pictured is the dense development of architecture in the International and Bauhaus style that have become the image…
Cincinnati: Downtown Aerial, Chiquita Center (Columbia Plazza), Fifth Third Center
This east facing aerial view looks across downtown Cincinnati from Carew Tower. Of note in this image are some of Cincinnati’s taller buidlings: The Fifth Third Center and the Chiquita Center. The Fifth Third Center, towering in the foreground, is a…