Tel Aviv Promenade, Tel Aviv-Jaffe, Israel

Yaacov Rechter

1982

Photograph featuring a promenade alongside a beach with people walking and sitting, with several sets of lightposts and circular benches.
The main promenade of Tel Aviv, now known as the Lahat Promenade, is one of Tel Aviv’s most popular public spaces. Paved with pebbles in a pattern that evokes waves, it runs the entire length of the city’s beach. It was a redesign of a narrower promenade built in 1939.

Credits

Photo by Nati Harnik, courtesy of State of Israel Government Press Office.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 10.

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Creator Bio

Yaacov Rechter

1924–2001

The son of Israeli architect Zeev Rechter, Yaacov Rechter designed many notable public buildings in Israel, including museums, concert halls, and universities. His work often combines intricate surfaces with simple forms. Among Rechter’s works are the Technion’s Graduate School of Business Administration in Haifa (1988) and his reconstruction and expansion of Erich Mendelsohn’s Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem (1979). In 1972, he was awarded the Israel Prize for Architecture, in recognition of his design for the Mivtahim Resort Hotel in Zichron Ya’akov.

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