The Keren HaKirya building complex is a proposed set of buildings in
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...
, Israel. It will comprise 80-story and 50-story office towers and two 45-story residential towers that will stand above a two-story retail mall. It will be situated at the intersection of
Begin Road
Begin Road is a major thoroughfare in Tel Aviv, Israel. It begins at Allenby Street and runs to its northern end which is at Arlozorov Interchange on Ayalon Highway.
There is one interchange along Begin Road, Kaplan Interchange, located near Azr ...
and Sha'ul HaMelekh Street in the city's Midtown business district on an area of 38
dunam
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...
s (9.5 acres).
The project was initiated by the
Israel Land Authority
Israel Land Authority (ILA; he, רשות מקרקעי ישראל; ar, سلطة أراضي إسرائيل; "Raeshoot Mekarka'ei Yisrael") is a governmental body created as a part of a reform of the Israel Land Administration. After all the organiz ...
, together with
Israel's Defense Ministry and the Tel Aviv Municipality, with the master planning and design developed by
A.I. Architecture and Urban Design (Isaac Halfon and Alan Aranoff architects), with project coordination by Ehud Tayar Management and Engineering Ltd.
The design of the office towers, whose 350-meter height is unprecedented in Israel, consists of clusters of extruded triangles of different heights that create a singular prismatic effect on the skyline. A central focus of the project is the landscaped pedestrian plaza that will be flanked by retail and dining arcades, with a pedestrian bridge that links the two commercial buildings.
The project will be served by
Tel Aviv's light rail system green line, with bus, bicycle and pedestrian access, as well as multiple underground parking and service levels.
When completed, the project will add some 770 housing units to Tel Aviv's increasingly limited housing stock.
See also
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HaKirya
HaKirya, or The Kirya ( he, הַקִּרְיָה, ''lit.'' The Campus), is an area in central Tel Aviv, consisting of an urban military base north of Kaplan Street, and a civilian area south of it.
HaKirya contains the Tel Aviv District's govern ...
References
*Public hearing of the Tel Aviv Municipality Local Committee (project approval, 31/Jul/2013).
Tel Aviv committee approves plan for Israel’s tallest building, Haaretz Newspaperהמגדל הגבוה בישראל: עיריית ת"א אישרה הקמת בניין משרדים בן 80 קומות, The Marker magazine
* ttp://www.forbes.co.il/news/new.aspx?Pn6VQ=K&0r9VQ=KGMG בקרוב: המגדל הגבוה בארץ יוקם בת"א במקום הקריה, Forbes Israelbr>Plan approved for Israel's tallest building, Globesעיריית ת"א אישרה את הקמת המגדל הגבוה בישראל. Globes
External links
* ttp://ai-arch.net/keren-hakirya-master-plan.html Master plan information from AI Architecture and Urban Designbr>Ehud Tayar Management and Engineering Ltd
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Skyscrapers in Tel Aviv
Skyscraper office buildings in Israel
Residential skyscrapers in Israel