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The Clal Center in Jerusalem, May 7, 2026 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)
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50-70% of shops and offices in the building are empty
The cursed Clal Center: Inside downtown Jerusalem’s spooky concrete jungle
By Zev Stub
Once envisioned as the city's commercial hub, the historic site is now seen as a confusing maze of empty storefronts, urban legends and decades of decline. But it's got great stories
The Gagon shelter in Jaffa, open for tours during Batim Mibifnim 2026, the annual Tel Aviv Open Houses event. (Courtesy)
April 28, 2026, 1:21 pm
Tel Aviv’s ‘Open Houses’ offers fresh peek at private and public spaces
City’s annual Batim Mibifnim, Hebrew for ‘homes from the inside,’ event opens for registration on May 1
By Jessica Steinberg
The underpass of Tel Aviv's Shalom Meir Tower, the temporary home of "HaMivne," a pop-up exhibit on display through December 29, 2025. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
December 27, 2025, 11:42 pm
Exhibit brings visitors back to Tel Aviv’s Shalom Meir Tower
Pop-up event fills empty office high-rise’s raw, industrial space
By Jessica Steinberg
Architect Frank Gehry poses with a model of the The Foundation Louis Vuitton building at the 'Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation' (Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la Création) art exhibition in Hong Kong on May 21, 2009. (Mike CLARKE / AFP)
December 6, 2025, 7:53 am
Groundbreaking architect Frank Gehry’s ‘refreshingly original’ buildings, in photos
Curves and angles mix in concert halls, museums and other buildings from around the world that were built by the acclaimed architect, who died on Friday at age 96
By AP
FILE - Architect Frank Gehry describes his concert hall design at the Colburn School during an unveiling in downtown Los Angeles on March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
December 6, 2025, 3:28 am
Frank Gehry, the most acclaimed architect of his era, dies at 96
Gehry, known for his imaginative building designs, was born Ephraim Owen Goldberg before changing his name at suggestion of first wife, who said antisemitism might be holding back his career
By Agencies
Michael Arad, the Israeli-American designer of the 9/11 Memorial in NYC. (Rachel Neville)
October 5, 2025, 8:02 am
Israeli designer of 9/11 memorial says too soon to construct national Oct. 7 monument
Michael Arad beat out 5,200 submissions for a highly charged NYC tribute that took 8 years to complete. He has advice for future commemoration of Israel’s victims of the Hamas onslaught
By Sue Surkes
Portrait of Israeli architect and architectural historian of Jerusalem David Kroyanker, at his exhibition "Jerusalem in Detail" at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, on November 09, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
September 22, 2025, 10:09 pm
David Kroyanker, chronicler of Jerusalem’s architectural history, dies at 86
The Jerusalem-born architect began as a city planner, went on to author dozens of works detailing the capital’s urban landscape before relocating to Tel Aviv in his later years
By Charlie Summers
Part of the Reshit School in the southern city of Sderot, designed by Zarta Studio. (Yarden Baider Sagy)
July 22, 2025, 8:17 am
Gaza border architectural firm’s designs aim to protect body and elevate spirit
Launched a year after Hamas seized power in the Strip, Zarta Studio has a reputation for building beautiful structures that are actually fortresses
By Sue Surkes
A 3D printer produces an innovative building material designed at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa in which microorganisms bind sand together. The final product is being exhibited in one of nine international installations at the Triennale, Milan. (Disrupt.Design Lab, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, the Technion)
July 9, 2025, 11:41 am
Microbes pave the way for a living, green alternative to cement in buildings
Technion project, which sees microorganisms bind sand while absorbing carbon dioxide, is one of 16 on show at Triennale Milano
By Sue Surkes
Yael Melamede and her mother, Ada Karmi-Melamede, during filming of 'Ada, My Mother the Architect,' released in May 2025 in New York and Los Angeles (Courtesy Salty Features)
May 24, 2025, 1:01 pm
Film offers elegant, intimate look at architect who designed Israel’s Supreme Court
Filmmaker Yael Melamede examines the work and life of her mother, Ada Karmi-Melamede, in ‘Ada: My Mother the Architect’; decries ‘loud, silent boycott of Israeli films right now’
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli startup qbiq develops an architectural AI platform that allows users to generate layout plans and 3D visualizations. (Courtesy)
January 15, 2025, 8:39 pm
Israeli generative AI startup raises $16 million to automate architectural planning
Tel Aviv-based qbiq says its AI-based software platform can be used by non-architects and architects alike to plan, visualize, and optimize any interior space within a few clicks
By Sharon Wrobel
Adrien Brody in 'The Brutalist.' (Lol Crowley/A24)
December 18, 2024, 2:01 am
Starring Adrien Brody, ‘The Brutalist’ is based on postwar Jewish architects in the US
László Tóth, a fictional Hungarian Jewish architect who moves to America, is a composite of real-life characters whose struggles are propelling the new film to critical acclaim
By Andrew Lapin
A Jerusalem apartment that is part of the Open Houses Jerusalem tours on the weekends of April 4-6 and 11-13, 2024 (Courtesy Mikaela Borseto)
March 27, 2024, 7:30 am
Rescheduled Open House Jerusalem to launch with several tours related to Oct. 7
Batim Mibifnim was postponed from late October after the Hamas attack; now it will take place over two weekends in April
By Jessica Steinberg
A view of 'The Anne,' a floor plan offered by a New Mexico home builder 'in honor of' Anne Frank. (Abrazo Homes via JTA)
January 17, 2024, 7:40 am
New Mexico home architect panned over floor plan named ‘in honor of’ Anne Frank
Abrazo Homes changes listing for ‘The Anne’ design, which it had marketed as offering views Holocaust victim would have enjoyed
By Andrew Lapin
From the upcoming 12th Hansen House Design Week in Jerusalem, June 22-29, 2023, by Esmee Willemen. (Courtesy: PR)
June 19, 2023, 7:22 pm
Truth and lies get creative treatment at Jerusalem Design Week
Former leper hospital Hansen House shows off recent renovation and works of 170 designers and architects at 12th annual event
By Jessica Steinberg
Moshe Safdie at the Albert Einstein Education and Research Center in Sao Paolo, Brazil, in 2022. (Courtesy Safdie Architects)
June 12, 2023, 3:32 am
From Jeddah to Jerusalem, Israel-born Moshe Safdie cements his architectural legacy
The master draughtsman’s projects include the Yad Vashem redesign and a Sheldon Adelson-owned resort; he writes about it all in his memoir, ‘If Walls Could Speak’
By Rich Tenorio
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