View Full Version : Tel Aviv Local Planning C'tee rejects Kikar Hamedina design


TeLaVivi
January 24th, 2005, 12:11 PM
The committee ruled that architect Avraham Yaski's plan deviated from the outline plan, which permits the construction of three high-rises.
Guy Yamin 20 Jan 05 18:36

The Tel Aviv Local Planning and Building Committee yesterday rejected a plan by architect Avraham Yaski for Kikar Hamedina. The site's landowners chose Yaski's plan for the site.
The Local Planning Committee ruled that Yaski's plan deviated from the instructions in the outline plan, which permits the construction of three high-rises. Yaski designed three pairs of high-rises - six buildings - with no links between them.

The Kikar Hamedina plan, approved in 2000, made headlines during the design competition 18 months ago. The Yaski & Partners firm won the design competition. The design called for three pairs of 25-storey high-rises, with 387 luxury apartments, 15,000 sq.m. of commercial space, 2,700 parking spaces, and 6,000 sq.m. of public space that would be given over to the Tel Aviv municipality.

Tel Aviv municipal engineer Danny Kaizer supported the design of architect Moshe Zur, while some landowners backed the plan submitted by the Rothman-Raz architectural firm. The Local Planning Committee asked all the project's developers to submit all the competing architectural designs.

A "Globes" investigation in October 2002, which relied on the professional parameters that were the basis for the architectural designs, found that Rothman-Raz's design was preferable to Zur's, and far more acceptable than Yaski's.

Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on January 20, 2005

The Yaski & Partners winning design (that was rejected by the committee)
http://img188.exs.cx/img188/2453/kikar8fk.jpg

The Rothman-Raz proposal
http://telavivinf.com/prat/future/pro/kikar_hamedina/pic1.jpg
from telavivinf.com (http://telavivinf.com)

nukey
January 24th, 2005, 10:19 PM
All of the proposals were awful simply because the brief was unacceptable. Kikar Ha Medinah is pretty much the only open space with such potential in Tel Aviv- potential to be a wonderful public open space. They should have an open competition for landscaping proposals, maybe with a cafe. Adding skyscrapers is as sad as it is unnecessary. There are so many towers being built around the corner anyway!

Monkey
January 24th, 2005, 10:35 PM
VERY NICE!!

RoM
January 25th, 2005, 01:28 AM
Im glad this was rejected, build a park or a public area with water fountains and such....better than another building to this city

Azazel
January 26th, 2005, 10:04 PM
thank god!

TeLaVivi
January 27th, 2005, 10:03 AM
Sorry guys, but the skyscrapers are going to be built, the committee only rejected the design, but the plan for 3 towers was already approved .
The land owners of Kikar Hamedina are hot for this project .

Monkey
January 27th, 2005, 11:16 PM
ohh sheatttttttt

Azazel
January 28th, 2005, 09:42 PM
wait, someone actually owns that land?

in any case, this is too bad.

Tel Aviv needs a pretty square, somewhere...

Monkey
January 28th, 2005, 10:04 PM
AZAZEL ABSOLUTE RIGHT!!!