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Israeli Architecture : Buildings in Israel

Key Contemporary Architectural Developments in Israel, Middle East.

post updated 25 September 2024

We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Israeli Architecture. We cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across Israel. The focus is on contemporary Israeli buildings but information on traditional Israel buildings is also welcome.

We have 2 pages of Israel Architecture selections.

Architecture in Israel

Israeli Architecture : news + key projects (this page)

Israeli Buildings : A-Z

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Israeli Building – Latest Designs

Tel Aviv ArchitecturalTours
Tel Aviv Architecture Walking Tours : building walks – launched May 2013

Jerusalem Architectural Tours
Jerusalem Architecture Walking Tours : building walks – launched May 2013

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Major Israeli Building Designs – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

1 April 2024
M2: Country House, Tel Aviv
Architects: Architect Raz Melamed

photo : Amit Geron Photographer
M2 Country House, Herzliya, Israel

8 January 2024
Y House, Jerusalem
Architects: Matti Rosenshine Architects

photo : Ilan Nahum
Y House, Jerusalem, Israel property

Israel Property Design Developments in 2023

Midbarium Animal Park

Maayan Centre, Tel Aviv

21 Aug 2023
Herzliya House, Tel Aviv
Architects: Liat Eliav Design Studio
Herzliya House, Tel Aviv

21 May 2023
Dead Sea Desert Hotel
Architects: Bar Orian Architects in collaboration with Lambs & Lions Studio

architecture renderings by Bar Orian Architects
Dead Sea Desert Hotel

29 June 2023
Top Audio, Herzliya Pituach – on the waterfront just north of Tel Aviv
Architects: Hila and Dan Israelevitz, Israelevitz Architects

photo : Oded Smadar
Top Audio Herzliya Pituach
Top Audio, one of Israel’s leading companies in the smart home and audio-video systems field, recently inaugurated the new office and showroom complex in Herzliya Pituach.

21 May 2023
Dead Sea Desert Hotel
Architects: Bar Orian Architects in collaboration with Lambs & Lions Studio

architecture renderings by Bar Orian Architects
Dead Sea Desert Hotel
Bar Orian Architects in collaboration with Lambs & Lions Studio officially announces, Dead Sea Desert Hotel, a new luxury resort planned for Israel’s Judean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea, scheduled to open in 2025. The 109 room-and-suite property will be built on a plot of land with an area of about 20 dunams (nearly five acres) in the Judean Desert overlooking the serene landscape of the Dead Sea.

5 May 2023
Compound For 2 Municipalities, Giv’at Shmuel, Tel Aviv
Architecture and Urban Planning: Y. Lavie Architects and Urban Planners LTD and Erez Shani Architecture

Renders: Rembox
Giv’at Shmuel Compound
The Compound For 2 Municipalities project is planned on two adjacent lots (24,000 sqm total area) owned by one of Israel’s most renowned telecommunications company, within the jurisdiction of 2 municipalities in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan area.

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Israel Property Design Developments in 2022

14 Oct 2022
Lines Alive, Herzliya, Tel Aviv
Architects: Jacobs-Yaniv Architects

photo : Amit Geron
Lines Alive House, Herzliya, Tel Aviv

6 Sep 2022
Glassworks, central Tel Aviv
Architect: Alex Nicholls

photo : Dudi Hasson
Glassworks Eyewear Gallery and Optometry Clinic, Tel Aviv

30 Aug 2022
Villa Rothschild Apartments, Tel Aviv
Architects: Bar Orian Architects
Villa Rothschild Apartments, Tel Aviv

14 Jun 2022
Independence Trail, Tel Aviv
Architects: Ollech + Tol
Tel Aviv Independence Trail

13 Jun 2022
FOZ, Jerusalem
Architects: Ollech + Tol
Friends of Zion Museum, Jerusalem

10 June 2022
Gan Yavne Villa, central Israel
Design: Kloom Studio
Gan Yavne Villa

10 June 2022
Esther Tower, Jerusalem
Architects: HAMR Huť Architektury Martin Rajniš
Esther Tower

28 May 2022
Office Complex – Jerusalem City Hall District Regeneration
Architects: Chyutin Architects with Jacques Dahan architect
Jerusalem City Hall District Regeneration

10 May 2022
Havaya Home, Holon
Design: Roy David Architecture
Havaya Home, Holon Office

31 March 2022
MB CS3 House, Tel-Aviv
Design: architect Raz Melamed
MB CS3 House in Tel-Aviv

27 Feb 2022
RNS1 Apartment, Reines, Tel-Aviv
Design: WE Architects
RNS1 Apartment, Reines Tel-Aviv

2 Feb 2022
The Great Unit Apartment, Florentin, South Tel Aviv
Architecture: k.o.t architects
The Great Unit Apartment, Tel Aviv-Yafo

25 Jan 2022
Mapu 5, Tel Aviv
Interior Architecture: Bar Orion Architects
Mapu 5 Apartments, Tel Aviv

23 Jan 2022
Elma Arts and Hotel complex, Zikhron Ya’akov, Haifa District
Design: Ran & Morris Interior Designers

photo : 181 Photography
Elma Arts & Hotel complex, Haifa

14 Jan 2022
Sweetime, Giv’atayim, Tel Aviv
Interior Architecture: OMY DESIGN
Sweetime Shop, Giv’atayim Tel Aviv

2 Jan 2022
layer 2.0 Architecture Design Competition, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

layer 2.0 Architecture Design Competition

Israel Property Design Developments in 2021

24 Sep 2021
Yiftah House, Jerusalem
Design: Matti Rosenshine Architects
Yiftah House, Jerusalem

23 Aug 2021
Neve Tzedek Patio House, Tel Aviv
Architecture: MGA | Meiarv Galan Architect
Neve Tzedek Patio House, Tel Aviv

11 Aug 2021
Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Design: Foster + Partners

photo : Studio Harel Gilboa
Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences in Jerusalem

6 Aug 2021
Fein 1 Central Apartment Complex, Tel Aviv
Architecture: HQ Architects
Fein 1 Central Apartment Complex, Tel Aviv

22 Jun 2021
Jaffa House, Old Jaffa, Tel Aviv
Architects: Raz Melamed and Omer Danan
Jaffa House, Tel Aviv

4 May 2021
Younes & Sorarya Nazarian Library, Haifa
Design: A.Lerman Architects Ltd.
Younes & Sorarya Nazarian Library, Haifa University

Israel Property Design Developments in 2020

15 Dec 2020
Contemporary Art Gallery, south Tel Aviv
Design: A. Lerman Architects Ltd.
Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv

29 Oct 2020
S House, Rishon Lezion
Design: ON STUDIO
S House in Tel Aviv

3 Oct 2020
TLV House
TLV House in Tel Aviv

17 Sep 2020
TEO Center for Culture, Art and Content, Herzliya
Design: A.Lerman Architects Ltd.
TEO Center for Culture, Art and Content, Herzliya

20 Jul 2020
ADDICT Clothing Store, Osishkin 54 Ramat Hasharon
Design: ON studio
ADDICT Clothing Store in Ramat Hasharon

5 Mar 2020
First Inclusive School, Tel-Aviv
Design: Sarit Shani Hay Design Studio
First Inclusive School Tel-Aviv

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Israel Property Design Developments in 2013

added 18 Oct 2013
Wohl Centre Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv
Design: Studio Daniel Libeskind, Architects

photograph © Bitter Bredt
Wohl Centre Bar-Ilan University
This building is located on the Bar-Ilan University Campus in Ramat Gan.

19 Sep 2013
CH house, Tel Aviv
Design: Domb architects

photo : Amit Geron
CH house
The property design is clean and very limited in architectural elements. Basic finish materials: white plaster, iron and glass.

1 Aug 2013
Urban Villa, Tel Aviv
Design: Pitsou Kedem Architects

photo : Amit Geron
Urban Villa
In the 1950s what was known as the “International Style” was highly developed in Tel Aviv. It developed thanks to architects who studied at the Bauhaus Institute in Germany and who then returned to Israel to continue their work.

15 Jul 2013
Check-Point Building, Tel Aviv
Design: Kimmel Eshkolot Architects

image from architect
Check-Point Building
The planned Check-Point Building for the Faculty of Computer Science and for science-oriented youth is located in the center of the campus, between the buildings of the Physics and Mathematics Faculties and the Dan David building.

13 May 2013
Archeological House, Ramat Ishay
Design: Uri Cohen

image from architect
Archeological House
The scheme proposes to combine the ancient building complex with the new one by a central space. This allows observation from the ancient part to the new and vice versa, while it gives a new vertical dimension to the typology of the patio hinted at the ancient remains.

20 Jun 2013
Zipper House, Lachish
Design: Uri Cohen

image from architect firm
Zipper House
The challenge in this scheme was to add a second house to the site in such a way that both will create an assembly of space and activity between the two families and still allow division and privacy.

19 Jun 2013
Leggenda Ice Cream Parlour, Tel Aviv
Design: SO Architecture

photo from architect office
Leggenda Ice Cream Parlour
This Ice cream parlor of the Leggenda chain is located on Rothschild Avenue. The concept is to create a unique sales ice cream vitrine, embedded into a complete unit with the sales display of the ice cream and the yogurt.

5 Jun 2013
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Design: YBGSNA

image from architecture studio
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Most public institutions in Jerusalem exist as gated compounds. This reality probably stems from the semi-desert/Mediterranean planning culture, which developed in a mostly, non-urban and rough landscape conditions, along with intense security considerations, prevalent in pre-modern and unfortunately in postmodern eras.

5 Jun 2013
Beam House, Arbel
Design: Uri Cohen Architects

photo from architect firm
Beam House
This home has been designed for a client who wished to build his home next to his farm. The design combines some of the utilitarian images of the agriculture buildings in that area with the fascination to the ‘beams’ construction of a ‘country home’.

added 31 May 2013
Hotel Villa, Yessod Hammala, north east Israel
Design: Uri Cohen Architects

image from architects practice
Hotel Villa Yessod Hammala
This is a preservation and an extension of a historic heritage monument on the first street in Yessod Hammala, which was built by the ‘pioneers’ in the late 19th century. It’s located in a tourist area and this makes it possible (or at least part of it) to be used in the future as a boutique hotel or for another commercial use.

21 May 2013
Municipal Civic Center Masterplan, Hod-Hasharon, Israel
Architects: Chyutin Architects

image from architects office
Municipal Civic Center Masterplan
The municipality of Hod-Hasharon was established as a cluster of four colonies or neighborhoods, each of which has its own center of public activities. The aim of the proposed municipal civic center is to create a complex of public services in an area common to the four neighborhoods, to unite them into a municipal fabric.

20 May 2013
TLV Forum Building – Israel architecture competition
Design: Kimmel Eshkolot Architects

image from architecture office
TLV Forum Building
Tel-Aviv White City Forum project is an Exhibitions Center, and is part of the huge Tel- Aviv Wholesale Market Project currently under construction, comprising thousands apartments, a mall, a school and a sports complex. The project, located in the city center, is built on the grounds of the former market, recently removed to the outskirts.

16 May 2013
Tel Aviv Architecture Photos

photograph © Adrian Welch
Tel Aviv Architecture Photos : major buildings around the city centre

16 May 2013
Porter School Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University Campus, Israel
Design: Geotectura / Axelrod-Grobman Architects / Chen Architects

photograph © Adrian Welch
Porter School Tel Aviv
The design gives a synergic approach to the environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainability. The environmental aspect presents an energy sufficient structure that is derived from the site conditions (wind, sun, acoustic) and allows research that simultaneously presents the available technologies to the public.

16 May 2013
Mamilla Hotel, central Jerusalem
Design: Safdie Architects

photo from Mamilla Hotel
Mamilla Hotel Jerusalem
A significant cultural, architectural and touristic evolution of the urban fabric of one of the world’s most iconic and timelessly beautiful cities happens this June with the opening of the first luxury lifestyle hotel in Jerusalem and Israel: Mamilla Hotel. Located in a remarkable position in the city centre with breath-taking views of the Old City walls, the Tower of David and Jaffa Gate, the Mamilla is a contemporary, world-class hotel that combines a distinctly international outlook with the unique cultural heritage of this most magnetic, frenetic, incredible city.

16 May 2013
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, western Israel
Design: Preston Scott Cohen

photo © Amit Geron Courtesy Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Tel Aviv Museum of Art – new photos
An international city renowned for its vibrant young culture and tradition of modern architecture, and a museum known as the very heart of its nation’s thriving arts community, today opened the doors of a visionary new building that may alter the future of museum architecture and lift its country to new prominence in the world of contemporary art.

16 May 2013
The Meier on Rothschild tower, Tel Aviv – construction progress
Design: Richard Meier & Partners Architects

photograph : Adrian Welch
Rothschild Tower Tel Aviv
This project is a pure, simple iconic residential, retail and office facility for the city of Tel Aviv. The 37-story tower for Berggruen Construction and Development will be located on Rothschild Boulevard and Allenby Street, one of Tel Aviv’s most distinguished addresses.

15 May 2013
Solar Decathlon Project, Haifa, north west Israel
Design: Team Israel

image from architects
Solar Decathlon Project Israel
Testing the thermal performance of various aspects of the design and the building envelope has helped fine tune the house to the desired level of performance that fits both the Israeli and Datong climates.

14 May 2013
Charles Bronfman Auditorium

photograph © Adrian Welch
Concert Hall Building Tel Aviv
Major Tel Aviv building located on HaBima Square.

14 May 2013
Bialik Square Buildings

photograph © Adrian Welch
Bialik Square Buildings
The Museum of the History of Tel Aviv-Yafo opened in 2009 in what was the old Tel Aviv Municipality building in Bialik Square. This is an elegant piece of city planning, humble, axial and successful as a place where people like to linger. It features a contemporary extension to the north.

14 May 2013
Habima Square

photograph © Adrian Welch
Habima Square Buildings
HaBima Square (also known as The Orchestra Plaza) is a public space in the center of the city. It is home to a number of cultural institutions such as the Habima Theatre, the Fredric R. Mann Auditorium and the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art.

14 May 2013
Monument to the Negev Brigade, Negev Desert, southern Israel – review + photos
Design: Dani Karavan

photograph © Adrian Welch
Monument to the Negev Brigade

13 May 2013
Yad Va’Shem Holocaust Museum, Jerusalem – new photos
Design: Safdie Architects

photograph © Adrian Welch
Yad Va’Shem Holocaust Museum
The rebuilding of the Yad Va’Shem Holocaust Museum includes a new visitors’ center (Mevoah), a new history museum replacing the existing museum constructed in 1953, a Hall of Names, a synagogue, galleries for Holocaust art, an exhibitions pavilion and a learning and visual center. In addition, new underground parking and facilities for tour buses are located adjacent to a new entrance piazza.

13 May 2013
Beit Halochem, Be’er Sheva, Negev Desert, southern Israel – new images + review
Kimmel Eshkolot Architects

photograph © Adrian Welch
Beit Halochem
The concept of the Israeli Veterans’ building, explained to me by the architect, was five ‘rocks’ in the desert with an overarching roof. Each ‘rock’ is a wing of the building and the intervening spaces are cloaked with a timber-lined soffit.

13 May 2013
Be’er Sheva Buildings, southern Israel – architecture review by e-architect editor Adrian Welch

photograph © Adrian Welch
Be’er Sheva Buildings
Photos + information on low-rise housing, a megastructure and a university campus all located in the arid landscape of the Negev Desert.

13 May 2013
Design Museum Holon, Tel Aviv – review + photos by e-architect editor Adrian Welch
Design: Ron Arad

image © DMH
Design Museum Holon
The building shows exhibitions about Israeli design, and on our visit was showing bathing suits and related designs. The structure is located on the edge of the traditional city centre, in a cultural quarter which is yet to complete.

13 May 2013
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Design: various architects

photo : Cecilia Koren
Israel Museum
The Israel Museum opened in 1965, in a Modernist complex nestled on the Judean Hills near The Knesset – the national parliament building – and the Hebrew University. Since that time, it has become the most eminent cultural institution in the region and one of the leading art and archaeology museums in the world, with collections growing exponentially over the past four decades.

Israeli Building – Recent Designs

23 Nov 2012
Yad Le’Banim buildings, Ramat Yishay – Architecture Competition entry
Design: Talmon Biran Architecture Studio

picture from architects
Israel Architecture Competition entry
Yad Le’Banim buildings are multi-disciplinary cultural centers that offer cultural, social, and artistic activities for the local community in memory of fallen soldiers of Israel Defense Forces and Security Forces. The location of the proposed Yad Le’Banim building within an existing grove at the local council of Ramat Yishay provides a unique opportunity to integrate landscape with the architectural design.

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Israel Property Design Developments in 2011 – 2012

26 Apr 2012
University Senate Center Beer-Sheva, southern Israel
Chyutin Architects

photograph : Ardon Bar Hama
University Senate Center Beer-Sheva
The Senate Center complex at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev serves as the university’s administrative center. It contains an office building, the Senate Hall, and an exhibition space.

16 Feb 2012
B&B Italia Showroom, Tel Aviv, western Israel
Architects: Pitsou Kedem

picture : Amit Geron
B&B Italia Showroom Israel
The designer breathed new life into an abandoned and dilapidated building in the Tel Aviv harbor area, and created, around one of the finest furniture collections in the world of design, a space that is both powerful and yet restrained at one and the same time. The 11 meter high structure with a unique façade consisting of a line of pillars was used by the designer as the base for the entire outer shell.

8 Dec 2011
Jerusalem District Courthouse, central Israel
Design: Chyutin Architects

picture from architects
Jerusalem Courthouse
The courthouse in Jerusalem is located on a newly designed main public square in the city center of Jerusalem. The building houses all the judiciary levels except the Supreme Court, and contains 113 courtrooms and 135 judges’ chambers.

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Israel Architecture

Major Israeli Architecture Developments, alphabetical:

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
New Campus, Jerusalem
SANAA with Nir Kutz Architects

image from BAAD
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

Haifa University Student Center Building, north Israel
Chyutin Architects

photograph : Amit Giron
Haifa University Student Center

The Museum of Tolerance, Jerusalem
Chyutin Architects

image from architects
The Museum of Tolerance

Peace Peres House, Jaffa, central Israel
Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas Architects

image : Archivio Fuksas
Peace Peres House Jaffa

The Polonsky Academy, eastern Israel
Design: Chyutin Architects

render : Chyutin Architects
The Polonsky Academy

Rosso Restaurant, Ramat Ishay
SO Architecture

photograph : Asaf Oren
Rosso restaurant Israel

Umm el-Fahem Museum Contemporary Art
SO Architecture

image from architects
Umm el-Fahem Museum Building

Yehiam Memorial, Kibbutz Yechiam
SO Architecture

photo : Asaf Oren, SO Architecture
Yehiam Memorial, north of Israel

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Location: Israel, The Middle East

White City, Tel Aviv, western Israel
1930’s
4,000 International Style buildings – UNESCO World Heritage Site

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Key Buildings in the Middle East

Kuwait Buildings

Jordan Buildings

Israeli Architect office – Moshe Safdie

Office Buildings

Buildings / photos for the Israeli Architecture + Israel Building Developments page welcome

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