David Tajchman — Gran Mediterraneo

Gran Mediterraneo – Project Process Progress is David Tajchman's first book about a self-initiated architectural research for a White City-specific High-Rise: the Gran Mediterraneo. The publication gathers working documents, sketches and rare pictures in an object specifically designed by graphic designer and art director Sara Jassim.

Dates
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Hours
19:30
Language(s)
FR
Place
CIVA, Rue de l'Ermitage 55, 1050 Brussels
Tickets

free admission

In 2016, architect David Tajchman made public a self-initiated high-rise proposal on which he worked in secret during a few months. He decided to propose a new typology of skyscraper, more city-specific for Tel Aviv. Based on his previous observations that a new skyline is appearing in the White City, which according to his experience of the city and his knowledge of the local architectural history, does not take enough into account the 1930s and later Brutalist legacies. His yet unbuilt (but surely to get built) skyscraper is a spontaneous proposal from a foreign architect to the local decision makers, to open their eyes and their mind to other visions, for a more Tel Aviv-specific vertical architecture. The Gran Mediterraneo has been widely published as an architectural innovation and has won several awards gaining international recognition, with the recent Architizer A+ Awards 2017 received in New York.

Gran Mediterraneo – Project Process Progress
December 2018
Actar Publishers