Noam Dvir
By Noam Dvir
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The Schmooze It Looks Better in French
Crosspsted from Haaretz June 1970 marked a new era for Ashkelon, with the dedication of the French Resort on its southern beach, at the far end of Ben-Gurion Boulevard. The resort took on mythical proportions, symbolizing the luxury, hedonism and glamour of foreign locales at a time when most Israelis still vacationed at retreats operated…
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The Schmooze New Avenues in Computerized Architecture
Crossposted from Haaretz Last night the exhibit “Parameter: Digital Collaborative Design” opened in the ZeZeZe Architectural Gallery in the Tel Aviv port. The exhibit is the product of collaboration between the department of interior design in the academic track of the College of Management and the Institute for Advanced Architecture in Catalonia, and it presents…
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The Schmooze A View to a School
Crossposed from Haaretz The University of Haifa has in the past two years undergone a dramatic facelift. Its main building, a modernist icon common in the mid-1960s in the work of noted Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, underwent an essential and comprehensive refurbishment after years of neglect. Over the coming year, the university’s central library will…
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The Schmooze Power Company to the People
Crossposted from Haaretz Legendary city engineer Yitzhak Ben Sira planned Tel Aviv’s Yad Eliyahu area to be a neighborhood of public housing with an industrial area at its northern edge. Beginning at the end of the 1940s, high-quality housing projects were constructed alongside public buildings, including arts and recreation centers. Some of them, like the…
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The Schmooze The Party Is Over for Allenby 58
Crossposted from Haaretz The life cycle of the building at 58 Allenby Street in Tel Aviv, with its glory days and its bleaker days, is a microcosm of trends and fashions that have affected the city from the 1930s to today. As a movie theater built in 1937, it integrated well into the inhabitants’ leisure…
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The Schmooze Is an Abandoned Jerusalem Villa Better Off as a Fringe Theater?
Crossposted from Haaretz A few weeks from now, a new fringe theater center is slated to become home to a number of experimental groups now working in temporary spaces around the Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Theater Group, Psik and Incubator (the local branch of the Nisan Nativ Studio), will all use the new space. The center…
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The Schmooze Pyramid Scheme in Be’er Sheva
Crossposted from Haaretz Before green construction became a buzz word with architects declaiming the virtues of solar collectors and styled louvers, Israeli architects had already experienced planning for an extreme climate. In the golden age of public construction — the 1950s and 1960s — the Housing Ministry initiated experimental residential projects focused on the sun,…
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The Schmooze Office Affair
Crossposted from Haaretz How can a lone worker express his individuality in a corporate firm employing hundreds of people? Will a colorful coffee cup, some family photos or a distinctive fashion sense suffice to attracts the attention of colleagues and the secretaries? At the renovated Neopharm building in Petah Tikva, architects Yael Benaroya and Yoram…
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