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Ussishkin Building

Year
Restoration
Location
Tel Aviv
Role
Architect — restoration & reconstruction
Ussishkin Building

From the architect's notes

An early-twentieth-century Tel Aviv landmark restored as a careful act of architectural memory. The work recovered the building's original character — proportions, openings, stonework and ornament — and reassembled missing façade elements one by one, returning the house to the city it helped shape.

Drawings & photographs

'Love at first sight' drawing of the Ussishkin building, 1992
'Love at first sight' — drawing, 1992
Building site with architect Alexander Levi and workers, 1922
Building site — Architect Alexander Levi and workers, 24.04.1922
Ussishkin building behind new immigrants' tents, 1923
Ussishkin building behind new immigrants' tents, 1923
Main façade with reconstructed details
Main façade — collage with reconstructed details
Collage of restored façade details
Collage of buildings' details
Painting of Ussishkin and Achad Ha'am at the terrace, 1925
Ussishkin and Achad Ha'am at the terrace
The architect with Feisal Husseini at the building terrace
With Feisal Husseini at the building terrace