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The Stone Administration Building Architects: Arieh Elhanani and Nissan Canaan
07-12-10
The Stone Administration Building
The Stone Administration Building was designed by the architects Arieh Elhanani and Nissan Canaan in 1966, in the style of Industrial Minimalism...
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The Wolfson Building for Biological Research Architects: Benjamin Idelson, Gersh
07-12-10
The Wolfson Building for Biological Research
This is one of the most massive buildings on the campus of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Yet, despite its height, it projects a reserved...
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The Perlman Chemical Sciences Building Architects: Benjamin Idelson and Gershon
07-12-10
The Perlman Chemical Sciences Building
This is one of the characteristic features of 1960s’ and 1970s’ architecture; it is connected to Structuralism, with its attempts to...
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Koffler Accelerator of the Canada Centre of Nuclear Physics Architect: Moshe Har
07-12-10
Koffler Accelerator of the Canada Centre of Nuclear Physics
This design belongs to a period influenced by the first achievements in space, by pop music and by the props of science fiction films
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The Canadian Institute for the Energies and Applied Research Architect: Moshe Ha
07-12-10
The Canadian Institute for the Energies and Applied Research
Four protruding concrete lines spill into the blue reflecting pool at the foot of the tower and two adjacent central panels that appear to create...
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The Sidney Musher Building for Science Teaching Architect: Gershon Zippor
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The Sidney Musher Building for Science Teaching
The emergence of this style, eventually to be known as Glass Architecture, can be traced back to the glass-and-steel structures that began to...
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The Hermann and Dan Mayer Building for Semiconductor Science Architect: David Za
07-12-10
The Hermann and Dan Mayer Building for Semiconductor Science
A good example of the industrialized construction approach prevalent in the 1980s, which involved the use of prefabricated concrete walls faced...
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