About 700 meters east of the Palmer Gate is the Government Building and it houses, at 1 Nathanzon Street, one of the iconic buildings of modern Haifa, the Hatil building.
The sail tower or the missile tower?
The tower is an office building with a height of 137 m (29 floors above the ground) that was built between 1999-2002 in the government building on behalf of Yitzhak Rabin. It is considered the highest not only in Haifa but in the entire north. His name is derived from his imagination for the sails of a ship or in the eyes of others for a missile on a shipping platform. The engineering design of the building guarantees it optimal resistance to strong winds and earthquakes.
Between the tower and Sderot Pel'im connects Sderot Keshet, where mosaics are integrated that show ancient maps of Haifa and passenger records from the Middle Ages. The original tender from 1998 for the establishment of the Government Kiryat also included the construction of a Pervarim train station near the office buildings called "Customs House", but this part has not yet been carried out.
The designers of the building: the architects Amer-Kuriel
The building was built according to the plans of the Haifa architects' office d. Said - a. Curiel founded in 1992 by the architects Dina Amer and Abraham Curiel. The firm mainly deals with the planning of public buildings. He is involved in a number of projects in Haifa, among them: the IBM building at the University of Haifa, the preservation and renovation of buildings on Ha'anmal Street for the Computer Faculty of the University of Haifa and an apartment building for rent on Ha'anmal Street for Shikun and Benui.
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To my father Doki-
thank you for your response.
A building that was not built well, there is no air circulation, people there got diseases. It's good that no more towers are being built in Haifa, Tel Aviv has become a concrete monster!!
The outer curtain wall (aluminum frame and glass) was made by an Italian company if I remember correctly.
Moamik agrees with most things. With regard to the break-in between Ramat Dania and Ramat Alon, it should be remembered that before the IBA there established a connecting road between the neighborhoods and continued construction of the Ramat Alon neighborhood called Ramat Alon South and will include towers similar to Ramat Dania Gloverman Street, which is the part of it that has been built until now. I am not clear what the argument is against The completion of the paving of the road, those who know the lower part that connects to Ramat Alon is already paved so that there is no serious damage to the nature, it is already violated nature. Regarding the claim for the traffic jams that will be caused by the residents of Ramat Dania going down through Ramat Alon, this is something that has already been taken into account in the approved planning of the IBA of Ramat Alon South And those who bought apartments in Ramat Alon knew that it would be connected to Ramat Dania, there is no exciting innovation here. I don't understand the opposition to this important connecting road between the two neighborhoods.
Rachel has no resemblance to Burj Al Arab. Not in the materials, not in the heights, not in the uses, not in the positioning, not in the internal planning, not in the external form, nothing. No resemblance, not even the slightest.
Both perhaps echo the shape of a sail, the shape is also rounded in a very different way in both.
There really is no parameter to compare or argue for similarity.
to Rachel-
Thanks for your comment, the imagination was mentioned in one of the comments. good week!
You forgot to mention the "similarity" to Burj Al Arab
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You forgot to mention the "similarity" to the Burj Al Arab in Dubai
for gold-
Thank you for your comment, which brings another critical aspect of the planning of Kiryat Shrovetide. Shabbat Shalom!
The concept of "user-friendly" is foreign to the planners of Kiryat Shvelet. Every arrival to the complex means a beret journey where the highlight is the courts. Hía de la Rosa is illuminated in front of the route that must be taken until you reach the court. The creativity that led to the awards is at the expense of the public. Long routes with minimal accessibility are very difficult for older people. This entire complex is a cry for generations and its planners boast of awards and certificates of appreciation. shame.
To Eyal.. My reference to the Tower of the Prophets is to the "pertach" of its crumbling level of finish.. which is no different from the crumbling level of finish of the "Reconstruction of the Carmel Center" whose tender was for Melir only.. when I was there pre-construction with representatives of Yafe Nof. They didn't know To say a rule on what it will be paved with..planned the unnecessary "Amphitheater" between the Carmelite and the hallucinatory double-door piano, let's solve the accessibility..and drainage?? They almost turned the suduk into a swimming pool.. so I was called by the desperate merchants.. I offered an alternative plan.. but.. they were already closed to their wisdom.
In Haifa these are examples of the extremes of "wisdom is up there" and lack of public participation. And recently the 2 struggles of saving Nahal HaGivuri and preventing the illusory breakthrough under the so-called Home Front Command between Dania and Ramat Alon Dov point to a total disconnection...not to mention the proposed roads west to the sea that will finally end the mountainous scene.
All this under the auspices of the wars and supposedly to prevent more fires. In-depth discussions are supposedly held under the auspices of committees with experts who have never extinguished a dream since their days..certainly not in the forest..and thus we continue from failure in height to failure in execution and so on..and we are left with the problem that you grind in the neighborhoods to preserve the courses with no infrastructure. And the outraged citizens are called slanderers.. serial opponents.. and even threaten with legal expenses.
Disgraceful conduct...
And the giving of the prizes...yes...this is also right on the horizon and according to crooked logic and proximity to the plate. Esti Zandberg already wrote at the time about the award given to the restoration of Route 6 while on the other hand the plan to save the Beit Keshet forests was submitted which was probably a little far to the And Pats, who are honored to assist and be impressed...
And thank you both for the fascinating articles and sharp responses.
to deepen-
thank you for your response. I wish the review would reach the responsible parties. Shabbos Shalom!
To Reuven Bar-Yotem
thank you for your response. We will take care of correcting the address. Shabbat Shalom!
to the stag-
I greatly appreciate your knowledge and critical evidence and even agree with some of it. I am happy about the discussion that developed following the article.
Profound peace. The Tower of the Prophets was used as the Government Kiryat before the construction of the two buildings in Kiryat Rabin in the lower city. To a large extent, the removal of government offices from the Tower of the Prophets contributed to the deterioration of Hadar, along with the removal of the district court.
For those who know the planning of the Government Palace, it was supposed to look completely different. A large square was to be built (twice the size of the square in front of the missile tower) and on both sides of it were 2-6 story office buildings, with an entrance to the district court at the end of the square
And at the other end it connects to a new train station.
This planning was biased towards pedestrians and encouraged the transformation of the Government Building into a part of the urban environment. The developer who built the tower for the government housing director, the Ashstrom company that also built the government building in Be'er Sheva, did not like the plan with the many buildings for each government office separately and it was decided to unite them in two towers. Various requirements were also added to create a sterile square that could be secured (Rabin's murder..) and thus the municipal square was expropriated and became a closed and fenced square. The bridge link to a new train station was canceled because Israel Railways preferred to expand and renovate the Haifa Center station.
A similar crime against pedestrians took place in the district court. The planners of the monstrous and monstrous building came up with the idea that the public would "pass through" from one side to the other. That's why instead of the Kiryat Havlat square that would connect to it, it was canceled on the grounds that the public would be able to "walk through the building" from two openings on both ends of it. Of course, security requirements caused the opening at the end of Pel-Yam Street to be closed, and transportation requirements caused it to be lifted "in favor" of a parking lot above ground. This is how the stupid pedestrian bridge was created that bridges between a closed and sterile square and the court square and walking on the street to it is like walking next to a 30 meter high separation fence. There is no commerce, no cafes, even the stairs that led to Pel-Yam Street from the streets above it were blocked with great "talent" by the failed architects.
They won prizes for this failure. Pedestrian disturbance and injury award. The rounded facade without a colonnade is designed to maximize the winds in winter and the sun in summer.
In Israel, awards are won for bad, expensive, ugly, inconsiderate and anti-urban planning. The government building in Haifa is proof of this.
There is a mistake in the address. Nathanson 1 is from the junction of Chiat-Jaffo-Nathanson. The inscriptions of the sail building (the missile) are the 15th palim (main entrance) and the 36th independence (rear entrance). And this is from the experience of twenty years of living and working as a food courier in the lower city.
Yes.. Eyal and David.. we will forget another crumbling and desolate tower.. the Tower of the Prophets which was done with a substandard and shameful finish...
And if we talk about the wonders of the designer...she also managed to produce a lack of integration and functionality and an incomparable idiosyncrasy...in the porcelain-coated "kiosk" at the entrance to the forest park in Nesher - the bridges park. Instead of producing a cafe that operates at night..instead of producing seating areas..instead of integrating with the requested natural materials and flowing forms..another casual and wasted cone for Draon Olam.
To Eyal:
thank you for your response. Your review is justified in many ways. Shabbat Shalom!
Part 2 of the government's failure. Part 1 I described a central train that did not move in front of Kiryat Shvaram. The second part of the omission is the building of the sail or the missile. Opinions differ. There is nothing worse than the design of this tower in every possible way. Let's start with the poor Independence Street to which the tower simply turns its back. Instead of the tower being a focal point for bringing life into the environment, they raised it and created a complete disconnection. Why did they pick him up? As I described there was supposed to be a bridge over the street to the train station and to be on the same level as the district court. What did the district court architects do? He was also lifted to the parking lot floor. what did we get A stupid and clumsy bridge from Migdal Hattil Square to the District Court, a sealed wall along Pal Yam and a desolate square where no one sits, and more sealed walls and entrances to parking lots that cut off the Government Building from Hatzamtu Street and Nathanzon Street. To make sure of killing, we built a wall in front of Natanzon Street called the Income Tax Tower.
But if you thought that the abuse of the public would end with bridges, blocked passageways and the torture of walking around a square that is all fenced off, wait. If you have reached the entrance to the missile tower, its design ensures maximum winds at the entrance level to the public. Everyone who was waiting for the check-up was outside, because of course there are no closed and air-conditioned waiting spaces either - so a line of people who sweat in the summer and are caught in a wind and rainstorm is constantly forming at the entrance to the tower. If you've already passed the wind and rain screen or the sun and heat in the summer, you can also deal with the lack of shading in the entire downtown area when leaving, there are simply no trees, no sheds, and no covered passages, if you haven't noticed. They used to know how to make colonnades with shade, today's Hammer-Couriers will not let the roof prevent the public from raising their heads and seeing the tower towering in front of them who agrees with difficulty to open a small opening for them to exit and enter if it is useful. A real tangible expression of the ivory tower and its impermeability.
The irony is that the Greens in Haifa and all opponents of the tower later used it as one of the recognizable buildings of the city. Those who claimed that he dwarfs Hadar and seems to stab the garden of memory have already become a team of cheerleaders for the new 'symbol'. How did it happen? Very simple. Since the tower, not a single office tower has been built in Haifa. Not downtown and not anywhere. That's how the ugly duckling won over the homeless and became the prince of Haifa buildings, without any visible competition. While in Tel Aviv 1 million square meters of offices were added in the last decade, in Haifa not a tenth of that was added. And in front of the ugliness of the wall of the Income Tax building, the ugliness of the Missile Tower became urban pride, just like the Dagon Wall, just like the Panorama Towers failure. How did Sir Dodo Tesa fly? In the end, you get used to everything, you get used to everything. And in Haifa they don't demand more either - they don't demand a convenient and pleasant underground city for pedestrians. They don't demand connectivity between public transportation means. They don't demand trees for shade. And buildings that know how to give an introduction without wind, rain and sweat. In Haifa, all we want is more parking lots Well, as long as there is a place to park the car, everything is small. Because the car will be used for a quick escape from the disgusting place. "A cafe? Leave, we'll sit somewhere else when we leave"