Project: Tel Aviv, Israel_Current Status: Completed 2017_My Input: 2012-2017
Client: B.S.R. Group_Building Architect: BLK Architects & Town Planners
Site area: 16,000 sq.m_Grounds and rooftops area: 9,500 sq.m
Project Description
Alon Towers is a mixed-use business complex in Tel Aviv’s Bitzaron neighborhood along Yigal Alon Street. It features two 45-story office towers above a retail podium and a two-story public building housing the 'Tmuna' theater. The complex sits atop several levels of underground parking, with ground-level exits to the east and west. The landscape design spans both ground-level public spaces and rooftop areas atop the retail podium and theatre. The entire complex sits atop several levels of underground parking, with ground-level exits on the east and west sides.
Alon Towers is a mixed-use business complex in Tel Aviv’s Bitzaron neighborhood along Yigal Alon Street. It features two 45-story office towers above a retail podium and a two-story public building housing the 'Tmuna' theater. The complex sits atop several levels of underground parking, with ground-level exits to the east and west. The landscape design spans both ground-level public spaces and rooftop areas atop the retail podium and theatre. The entire complex sits atop several levels of underground parking, with ground-level exits on the east and west sides.
Responsibilities
I led the landscape design from conceptual design through to project completion, encompassing public realm strategy, coordination with architects and engineers, and ensuring the built execution reflected the design intent. I handled client liaison, design approvals, and maintained continuity across disciplines as well as in-situ supervision.
Preliminary Designs
Design alternatives
Working out the concept
Yigal Alon Street runs alongside the Ayalon River, which, although channelled and barely perceptible today, continues to shape the urban structure of the area. The Bitzaron master plan draws on ideas of water and flow as a generator of movement and spatial organisation.
When thinking about the thousands of people moving through the Alon Towers business centre each day, I wanted to create a landscape that offered a counterpoint to that grinding daily intensity. Rather than amplifying movement and speed, the ground plane was designed to encourage pause and introduce moments of calm. The idea of a slow-moving stream informed the sequencing of spaces, material transitions, and the overall rhythm of the public realm. While the landscape introduces colour, rhythm, and opportunities to slow down, its visual language remains intentionally urban and orthogonal, responding to the architectural context of the towers.
It's all about the Details
The clean and serene look I wished to create required a high level of precision in geometry, junctions, and material transitions. The cooperation of the advising engineers and the collaboration of the construction team deserve praise throughout this project.
Segment of construction detail sheets for the central eco pond and trees containers
Ground Floor
3rd Floor
4th Floor
Final Design Presentation Plans
View From Above
The use same materials and continuity of lines from the ground floor allows the open terraces and patios of levels three and four to read as interconnected "puzzle pieces" when viewed from the upper floors.
