Anyone looking for pictures of Haifa in recent years would probably come across a photo of a white, pointy, oddly shaped skyscraper, overshadowing a humble mosque with a clock tower minaret, made of local sandstone. Often titled with some “Old Vs. New” cliché, this picture became the popular image of Haifa, ever since the building was erected in the early 2000s.
Straight out of Kevin Lynch’s ‘The Image of the City’, the architects of this building, which serves as the district government center, wanted to create a new landmark for the decaying port city.… Read more
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