With a unique look at the connection between the community and urban spaces, hundreds of tours will be held from May 18-20 for the general public....and all for FREE!
This annual Tel Aviv event is part of the 'Open House' umbrella that takes place all across the world. It's a simple but powerful concept: showcasing outstanding architecture for all to experience at zero cost. Open House invites everyone to explore and understand the value of a well-designed building.
The event will include an exciting program of rare visits and tours to the most intriguing houses and buildings in the city, some of which have never been opened to the public before. Apart from tours in residential apartments, there will also be fascinating tours about the community in unusual places around the city.
The team of curators, together with the municipality's community management division, dipped into the various communities for months and surveyed the city from north to south. On this journey, they met hundreds of active residents who introduced them to the facilities that they occupy or even built themselves.
Among the dozens of buildings that will be open to visitors are: private homes, apartments, historical buildings, and urban buildings. From the Ecological Apartment in "City Tree" in Bialik Square, which exemplifies the city's ecological life, to the "Gabrielovitch House" on Jaffa Road, a renovated building that has been redistributed in order to accommodate students and young couples who are interested in community building.
In addition, there will be a variety of activities and tours, including: a tour following the Menahem Moshe family and the Eden community through the 25 houses in which the family lived in Tel Aviv; an opportunity to discover and be exposed to the multi-communal space that is taking shape in the crowded neighborhood of Neve Sha'anan; a tour along the historic railway line in Jaffa, which will present the reality created on both sides of the tracks and try to answer the question of whether the railroad tracks connected or separated the neighborhoods and populations along its route? and more...
© Trudy Loetz
May 18-20. Various locations around Tel Aviv. To register visit http://www.batim-il.org/