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Spiral House
The Spiral House (, Beit HaSpirala) is an apartment complex in Ramat Gan, Israel, designed by the architect Zvi Hecker. The complex has a form of an upward spiral; it was built by Jaakov Hai and designed by the architect Zvi Hecker in collaboration with Gil Bernstein, Shmuel Groberman, and Rina Hering. The owner is Ezra Mualem. The house "deploys the principle of terracing typical of Arab villages where the roof is used as part of the living space for the apartments". Construction took place from 1984 to 1990. Hecker himself lived in the Dubiner house which is opposite the Spiral House. During the construction, he therefore kept an explicit control and changed the design several times during construction. The building was built in concrete, "with a facade of plaster, pink glass and stone fragments and corrugated tin." Hecker described the building as a "miniature Tower of Babel"; Shmuel Grobstein, who participated in the design, said that it "looks like a storm passed through Ram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramat Gan
Ramat Gan (, ) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, located east of the municipality of Tel Aviv, and is part of the Gush Dan, Gush Dan metropolitan area. It is home to a Diamond Exchange District (one of the world's major diamond exchanges), Sheba Medical Center (the largest hospital in Israel) and many high-tech industries. Ramat Gan was established in 1921 as a moshava, a communal farming settlement. In it had a population of almost 200,000. History Ramat Gan was established by the ''Ir Ganim'' association in 1921 as a satellite town of Tel Aviv. The first plots of land were purchased between 1914 and 1918. It stood just south of the Arab village of Jarisha. The settlement was initially a moshava, a Zionist agricultural colony that grew wheat, barley and Watermelon, watermelons. The name of the settlement was changed to Ramat Gan (lit: ''Garden Height'') in 1923. The settlement continued to operate as a moshava until 1933, although it achieved local council (Isra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Israeli-occupied territories, It occupies the Occupied Palestinian territories, Palestinian territories of the West Bank in the east and the Gaza Strip in the south-west. Israel also has a small coastline on the Red Sea at its southernmost point, and part of the Dead Sea lies along its eastern border. Status of Jerusalem, Its proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, while Tel Aviv is the country's Gush Dan, largest urban area and Economy of Israel, economic center. Israel is located in a region known as the Land of Israel, synonymous with the Palestine (region), Palestine region, the Holy Land, and Canaan. In antiquity, it was home to the Canaanite civilisation followed by the History of ancient Israel and Judah, kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Situate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apartment
An apartment (American English, Canadian English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), tenement (Scots English), or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single story. There are many names for these overall buildings (see below). The housing tenure of apartments also varies considerably, from large-scale public housing, to owner occupancy within what is legally a Condominium (living space), condominium (strata title or commonhold) or leasehold, to tenants renting from a private landlord. Terminology The term ''apartment'' is favoured in North America (although in some Canadian cities, ''flat'' is used for a unit which is part of a house containing two or three units, typically one to a floor). In the UK and Australia, the term ''apartment'' is more usual in professional real estate and architectural circles where otherwise the term ''flat'' is u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zvi Hecker
Zvi Hecker (; 31 May 1931 – 24 September 2023) was a Polish-born Israeli architect. His work is known for its emphasis on geometry and asymmetry. Biography Zvi Hecker was born as Tadeusz Hecker in Kraków, Poland. He grew up in Poland and Samarkand. He began his education in architecture at the Cracow University of Technology. He immigrated to Israel in 1950."Zvi Hecker" Arcspace. Date: 7 March 2001, retrieved 24 October 2007. There he studied architecture at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, graduating in 1955. At the Technion, Arieh Sharon#Private practice, Eldar Sharon was a classmate, and Alfred Neumann (architect), Alfred Neumann was their professor. Between 1955 and 1957, he studied painting at the Avni Institute of Art and Design, before beginning his career as an architect. Between 1957 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rechter Prize
The Rechter Prize is an Israeli architecture prize awarded bi-annually and intended to "encourage landmark projects of Israeli architecture". It was established in 1962 and name in honour of Ze'ev Rechter. References Israeli architecture awards Awards established in 1962 {{Israel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zvi Hecker Buildings
Zvi ( and , ''Tzvi'', Ṣvi, "gazelle") is a Jewish masculine given name. It is sometimes paired with Hirsch, the German and Yiddish word for "deer", in a bilingual pleonasm. Notable people with this name include: * Zvi Aharoni (1921–2012), Israeli Mossad agent * Zvi Arad (1942–2018), Israeli mathematician, acting president of Bar-Ilan University, president of Netanya Academic College * Zvi Hirsch Gregor Belkovsky (1865–1948), jurist, economist, and Zionist activist * Zvi Ben-Avraham (born 1941), Israeli geophysicist * Zvi Bern (born 1960), American physicist * Zvi Bodie (born 1943), American academic * Zvi Bornstein (1926–2024), Slovak antifascist fighter * Zvi Hirsch Chajes (1805–1855), Orthodox Polish rabbi * Zvi Chalamish, Israeli financier * Zvi Elpeleg (1926–2015), Israeli academic * Zvi Galil (born 1947), Israeli computer scientist, mathematician, and President of Tel Aviv University * Zvika Greengold (born 1952), Israeli officer during the Yom Kippur War, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
