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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 618

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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
Miami staircase designed by Adam Steel 2022. Courtesy Adam Steel.
May 24, 2023, 6:49 am
Israeli metal man Adam Steel rocks design world with luxe works from aluminum to zinc
A wunderkind of metal interior architecture, Steel is creating unique, high quality fixtures like stairs and doors for private clients and large corporations around the world
By Danielle Nagler
From the exhibit of 'Alberto Giacometti: Beginning, Again,' at Tel Aviv Museum of Art's Eyal Ofer Pavilion, May 6 – October 7, 2023 (Courtesy Yanai Yehiel)
May 5, 2023, 7:17 am
A sculptor’s view of humanity launches reimagined Tel Aviv museum pavilion
Tel Aviv Museum of Art inaugurates $5 million annex named for Eyal Ofer with major exhibit of Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti’s work
By Jessica Steinberg
View of neighboring buildings and sites from inside the new Bezalel campus, Jerusalem, January 2023. (Courtesy SANAA Architects)
February 24, 2023, 2:29 pm
Bezalel’s new campus hopes to draw Jerusalem’s many communities into creative space
Israel’s oldest art and design school moves to downtown location, in bid to connect to capital’s diverse population
By Danielle Nagler
Five-year-old Geffen Kan Tor explores the newly renovated Tower of David Museum in December 2022 with her father (Courtesy Ricky Rachman)
January 23, 2023, 11:16 pm
Elevators added to Tower of David museum, making ancient citadel accessible
Museum staff, Antiquities Authority and architects collaborated to safeguard archaeology while finding creative solutions for making museum navigable for people with disabilities
By Jessica Steinberg
A girl jumps from Caesarea's old aqueduct in the Mediterranean Sea near the port of Caesarea, Israel, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
January 12, 2023, 9:17 pm
Still standing: Researchers crack the secret of ancient Rome’s self-healing concrete
Scientists have long wondered what made the material so durable. Now a new MIT study utilizing microarchaeology and infrared cameras gives insight into Herod’s enduring monuments
By Melanie Lidman
Tel Aviv's LGBTQ Center is hosting Winter Pride during Hanukkah 2022, featuring major performers and queer culture on central Tel Aviv stages (Courtesy Tel Aviv LGBTQ Center)
December 16, 2022, 8:43 am
Light up Hanukkah with wintry pride, a record-breaking LEGO menorah and more
There will be more than enough performances, exhibits, screenings and concerts to last 8 days, from the EclectiQueer festival to urban park appreciation, museum tours and beyond
By Jessica Steinberg
A view of the reading rooms of the new National Library of Israel, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, Basel (courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron, 2022)
November 11, 2022, 9:04 am
New National Library building, a dramatic Jerusalem landmark, nears completion
Expansive facility covering 45,000 square meters (480,000 square feet) of space between the Knesset and the Israel Museum will open to the public next year
By Danielle Nagler
The Ayalon Highway on October 01, 2022 after a large sinkhole opened on the main highway in Tel Aviv on September 17, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 2, 2022, 6:41 am
Tel Aviv highway exit reopens partially after 2-week closure due to sinkhole
Lanes open to drivers headed south to Hashalom Interchange as of Sunday morning under authority supervision
By ToI Staff
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