A controversial 539-foot pyramidal tower in downtown Jerusalem, designed by Daniel Libeskind, will not be built, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported last week. Instead, the developer will go ahead with a 28-story torqued tower approved in 2012 and also designed by Libeskind, according to the newspaper. Excavation work began in 2015 on the 1.7-acre site, near the Mahane Yehuda produce market that is also a center of nightlife.
The plan for what Libeskind called “The Pyramid” aroused fierce criticism from individuals and groups, including the Jerusalem branch of the Israel Association of United Architects (IAUA), which argued that there had been no public discussion of it. That discussion eventually took place at a public meeting in Jerusalem in October 2015, at which Libeskind defended his plan, saying he shared the developer’s vision of creating a “wow!” for the city.
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