אדריכלות ישראלית - גיליון 126

2021 אוגוסט 126 חינה של הזיקנה אדריכלות ישראלית 93 | | Ink Hotel, 14 Brenner St., Tel Aviv The Peretz Public Library on Brenner Street was built during the 1950s in memory of Po'alei Zion political party members whose socialist leaders were among the founders on the Mapai party (Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael). The library included mainly books in Yiddish and it served as a center for Yiddish readers, while establishing connections with academic institutions around the world. With the decline of Yiddish readers the library association encountered monetary difficulties, the building was sold, and later became an office building that included a hall for cultural events. In 2019 it was decided to demolish the building and to construct a hotel. The architect decided to use the cultural spirit of the library as a source of inspiration, expressed inter alia by the image of a pile of books for the building envelope, with the shutters resembling pages of the books. Architecture: Yoav Messer Architects. Design team: Inbar Gross, Dekel Bar, Rotem Litbeck, Avital Shenhav, Tidhar Beker and Iftach Hayner, head architect of the preliminary plan. Interior design: Studio Yaron Tal. Constructor: Eli Rotberd. Landscape design: Kfir Fisher. Photos: Amit Gosher, Sivan Askayo