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Apr 26, 2024, 5:28 AM
Design for a neighborhood based on social open space
The design for a neighborhood in Northwest Beer-Sheva briefly described below was approved but not built, its client, the Ministry of Housing. Methodology: architects were given a pre-prepared outline master plan plus programs, the neighborhood subdivided into four parts. Bi-weekly...
Apr 17, 2024, 10:29 AM
Artificial intelligence and the future of architecture
While AI offers some advantages for the architectural profession, there are innumerable and potentially disastrous downsides. AI is certainly here to stay and will impact the field of architecture big time. As most tasks in architectural offices are of...
Apr 12, 2024, 5:47 PM
What do you wish to create?
What do you wish to create? What will artificial intelligence mean for the architectural profession? Some pros and cons of this dramatic new development. A long list of advantages for the architectural profession are claimed for AI. To name but a...
Apr 1, 2024, 12:02 AM
Why so ugly?
Before the founding of the State and for years afterward, a thriving architectural culture existed here, a strong European influence, mainly Bauhaus, in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and Haifa. A master of world architecture, Eric Mendelsohn, designed several important buildings on...
Mar 19, 2024, 12:30 AM
A relatively successful plaza self-destructs
Public squares constitute the primary life-giving meeting spaces of our neighborhoods. About to destroy one of them is the L- shaped six story building now going up over the lower parts of Ramat Beit Hakerem's commercial center, designed by...
Mar 10, 2024, 11:36 AM
Givat-Ram’s ‘Shikunei HaElef’ is masquerading as a village
The 56 prefabricated caravan-like buildings built after the Six Day War in the late '60s to house incoming students at the southern end of Hebrew University's Givat-Ram Campus were intended to be temporary, not permanent. Severely run down, they...
Jan 9, 2024, 5:10 PM
The BEGIN – ning of the end
The decking of Begin Boulevard in the valley separating Beit Hakerem from Hebrew University's Givat-Ram campus for 1.6 kilometers between two major traffic interchanges – Wolfson and Byte, is today the flagship project of Jerusalem Municipality. Formally deposited for...
Nov 23, 2023, 9:44 AM
UN suited and UN wanted
A long-forgotten remnant of The War of Independence, this large and extremely valuable site, three and a half hectares in area, was until '67 in Jordanian hands. Omitted from the Jerusalem Master Plan of 1959 it is still today...
Oct 4, 2023, 2:02 PM
Finally facing the problems of East Jerusalem
Annexed by Israel in '67, our government turned a blind eye to East Jerusalem over 56 years. And as East Jerusalem's residents do not vote in municipal elections, they hadn't any representatives on the City Council to forward their...
Sep 26, 2023, 11:44 AM
Lion will be held responsible for the destruction of Jerusalem
"It’s a disaster", "a travesty", "What's going on verges on the criminal." (Architect Moshe Safdie on a visit to Jerusalem some years ago) Safdie was shocked by what he saw. Were he to visit the city today he would see...
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Gerard Heumann is an architect and town planner in Jerusalem.
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