Bauhaus

Axelrod Architects Transforms a Tel Aviv Home from '80s Glitz to No-Nonsense, Modern Cool: Axelrod Architects, led by Principal Irit Axelrod, recently transformed a single-family house in Tel Aviv to reflect the homeowners’ love of serenity and sleek modern design, and the firm’s vision of modern residential architecture. The firm provided architectural design and interior design services for this 510 sq m / 5500 sq ft residence, consisting of two levels plus a basement, on a landscaped lot size: 710 sq m / 7600 sq ft. The new homeowners wanted to remodel an existing 1980’s house to reflect their indoor-outdoor lifestyle. Their family life is now centered around a lush landscaped courtyard just outside their living-dining space. Axel... More

The design of the municipal offices in Venlo was inspired by the ‘cradle to cradle’ principle. The result is a healthy working environment, combined with sustainable innovation. All the raw materials and parts used have a ‘passport’, detailing their production and origin. The building is therefore in essence a huge raw-materials databank. When a service or product reaches the end of its useful life, these materials can easily be retrieved for high-grade reuse. Ronald Tilleman Ronald Tilleman Ronald Tilleman Ronald Tilleman The building’s most striking feature is its ‘green’ northern façade. More than 100 different plants in the façade contribute to biodiversity and... More

Design Team: Interior Designers Lital Ophir (www.housestanding.houzz.com) Ilana Bronfen (www.facebook.com/ilanabronfen) In collaboration with architects Amir Navon (www.6bstudio.co.il) and Chen Navon. 97 Square meters + 37 Square meters balcony. This renovated apartment is Amir and Chen Navon's private home. Photography by- Gidon Levin, 181-Arcitecture Photography This renovated apartment is located in a preserved Bauhaus building built in the 1930s in Tel-Aviv. The apartment is located in the heart of Tel-Aviv, overlooking one of the most beautiful boulevards in the city next to Israel's national theater "Habima". While acknowledging the importance of honoring and preserving the 1930s Bauhaus architecture, we wanted to kee... More

Two new classrooms have been designed by Dear Design as a multipurpose open space and leave behind the traditional rows of chairs and desks, and speaker’s platform to give life to a new distribution with modular dynamic furniture and greater commitment to technology, lighting and sound. The new design of the space does not correspond to a simple aesthetic desire or example of modernity, but has been conceived and designed specifically to meet the ways of contact and learning that the new teaching mode of the School of Management of the UPF required. This new teaching model, started by the School of Management is based on learning challenges, projects and mentors, and adaptable to the needs of each student. It is a model where the student... More

Richard Meier & Partners has completed its first international residential tower and its first project in Israel. The new Rothschild Tower is inspired by the scale and Bauhaus design principles of its neighbors in Tel Aviv’s White City. The building’s image of lightness and transparency is the result of a double layer façade comprised of clear glass with a delicate white louver screen inspired by traditional Middle Eastern clothing and prominent corner balconies derived from the low to mid-rise neighboring buildings. A large “urban window” frames the western views to the sea from the Penthouse terraces. The new residential tower is anchored to Rothschild Boulevard in the heart of Tel Aviv’s White City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The n... More

Streetwise Fashion Brand Opens Flagship Store on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood The minimalist flagship location for Road to Awe (RtA) is as streetwise as the clothes displayed within its walls. Los Angeles architect Dan Brunn, AIA, Principal of Dan Brunn Architecture, created a 1,200-square-foot dream-like space with complex geometric precision, meditative sensations, and positive/negative dualities. Graced with exposure to Melrose Avenue on two sides, the streamlined West Hollywood boutique proclaims its presence to the public with angled black façades and an illuminated white logo. The clever design won the 2017 Westside Urban Forum Design Honor Award for retail projects. “For RtA, we wanted to provide a special LA... More

Breathe in the fresh sea air whilst relaxing in a private home and beautifully landscaped with established coconut trees have been carefully and very tastefully designed to maximize the sea views and privacy. The stylish villa that consist of 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, living area and the kitchen comes fully fitted with exquisite choice of materials. The distinctive inspired by the gentle wave of the ocean ensures the maximization of natural light and air flow within the interior living spaces. The villa is surrounded by the charming greenery oftropical illuminated garden of land appr. 4,800 m2 and private infinity pool. Simply a stunning residence of the highest quality. “I wish to admire the sunset from here each and every day and th... More

The restaurant ? Yafo, the first Parisian hummus deli has opened on 20 April 2017. Created by Lotan Lahmi, a young Israeli cook and pastry chef who arrived in France in 2010, the restaurant offers a selection of hummus every day, mixing typical Levant products and seasonal French products. Where ? 96, rue d’Hauteville, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. In the heart of the Parisian veggietown, where many beautiful addresses are flourishing. Its website: www.yafo-restaurant.com The concept ? A canteen with very soft pastel tones, pink paint on the walls and ceiling, 10 x 10 cm white tiles on the walls and on the tables, contrasted by terracotta colored joints. This Mediterranean atmosphere, embedded in its Millenium pink, is discover... More

Poli House means a 1930's Bauhaus architecture-style building reimagined as a contemporary urban resort in the micro-metropolis on the Mediterranean Sea. The Poli House, the 40-room "experimental luxury" property harnessing the essence of Tel Aviv past, present and future, located in the epicenter of Tel Aviv's cultural core. The Poli House boasts warm and clean yellow, blue, green and white interiors created exclusively by world-renowned industrial designer Karim Rashid, among the furnishing also our silver finishing Nafir suspensions. The Poli House's homage to 1930's Tel Aviv, tech-savvy design elements, health and style-conscious amenities and proximity to the Carmel Market and Mediterranean promenade combine for an unwavering leisure-s... More

YaroslavGalant adds an eclectic structure from shipping containers for Portuguese Football Club. “YaroslavGalant innovative design” studio has finished work on the project for football club “GrupoDesportivoEstoril Praia” (Portugal). The new dynamic structure has been constructed on a roof of already existing building. "Clube 39" includes offices and the universal transformable space, which joins restaurant, training center, conference hall, museum and open terrace facing training fields. The structure is created from five shipping containers combined under parametrical roof. Simplicity, strong winds resistance, energy efficiency and ecological compatibility - are tasks, which were successfully solved by a new design, considerin... More

Located in the center of the city's cultural complex, the program for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building posed an extraordinary architectural challenge: to resolve the tension between the tight, idiosyncratic triangular site and the museum's need for a series of large, neutral rectangular galleries. The solution: subtly twisting geometric surfaces (hyperbolic parabolas) that connect the disparate angles between the galleries and the context while refracting natural light into the deepest recesses of the half buried building. The building represents an unusual synthesis of two opposing paradigms for the contemporary museum: the museum of neutral white boxes and the museum of architectural spectacle. Individual, rectangular galleries... More

The house in Carmey Yossef, Israel, is planned to showcase the beauty of the site: an Israeli landscape of pines, cypress and olive trees bathed by a unique light. The design idea, which draws inspiration from Japanese architecture, the De Stijl style and local Bauhaus architecture, was to merge the light and the landscape with the space of the house by using an interplay of walls and openings, some transparent and some opaque, a play of open/closed and exposed/protected. The double height inner space is very dynamic: a bridge running along its entire length, an exposed iron staircase, and a library rising from floor to ceiling, are all elements from which outward and inward perspectives can be viewed, ever- changing according to the light... More