2022 אוגוסט #130 צ׳יטוט עם דני קייזר אדריכלות ישראלית 79 | | | So what brought you back to the Tea Trolley corridor? In the late 90's, when Ron Huldai ran for his first term as Mayor of Tel-Aviv he offered me the post of City Engineer, and since I knew the system well and found his vision right, in place and time, I decided to harness myself to the challenging job. This of course dictated a total leave of absence from my private practice, immersed as I was from morning till night in my new role as City Engineer. So, let’s go on to some urban questions about Tel Aviv... Although it is hard to argue with the fact that Tel Aviv recently won the ״flattering״ title of being “The most expensive city in the world"… in my view, it is precisely the lack of a master plan that created the necessary balance between ‘planned’ and ‘random’. And, I need not tell you that the right definition of a ‘good city’ is "a place where one can, on one hand find himself, but on the other also get lost.” Frankly, I am one of those who believes in moderate evolution (also in architecture), and in this respect, urban renewal projects that erase, at once, the past are problematic evolutionary "jumps". How do you see it, as someone who was there when they deleted the urban tissue of the Templar Colony of Sharona? Whether Right or Wrong, the new cities that were built after World War II were formed as a result of one stage, topdown planning, rather than of gradual, spontaneous development. There is no longer a situation where someone builds his house at the bend of the river, then an anchorage develops there, which after years becomes a harbor and a city. Urban Renewal is first and foremost an act of the state to realize its obligations to supply housing. This creates a dependency on the economic viability of the developer, and unfortunately, not by fostering the classic urban values of the public spaces as a meeting place. But one must not forget that you yourself were there when Sharona became the playground of the luxury towers planted around it, in my opinion with a lack of any urban understanding… Indeed, Sharona is a classic story of great interests and forces, a large neighborhood in the heart of the metropolis, mostly owned by the state, considered as a huge source of income, enriching the national budget. In my view, in terms of gathering planners and defenders of the sacred values of the place, the result may be considered an achievement Urban renewal project between the streets Derech Hashalom, Hatayasim and Amishav streets (Givatayim). The plan includes the demolition of 7 buildings with 150 apartments, to be replaced by 490 apartments of 9-20 floors in several buildings. Kaiser Architects & Town Planners Architects: Tamir Lavie, Chen Green, Yara Jabra.
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