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Palestinian Museum by Heneghan Peng Architects

West Bank

Esther Hecht

March 1, 2017

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A museum near Jerusalem, dedicated to Palestinian culture, offers a glimmer of optimism in troubled times.

Libeskind Pyramid Jerusalem Pyramid Plan

Developer Scraps Libeskind’s Jerusalem Pyramid Plan

Esther Hecht

January 30, 2017

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A controversial 539-foot pyramidal tower in downtown Jerusalem, designed by Daniel Libeskind, will not be built, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported last week.

Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem Moves Forward

Long embroiled in controversy, the troubled project now has 2018 as its completion date.

Esther Hecht

July 22, 2016

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Despite its tortuous history, the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem is “rapidly progressing,” according to its backer, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center.

The Israel Museum

A modernist museum in Jerusalem is sensitively updated by James Carpenter Design Associates and Efrat-Kowalsky Architects.

Michael Z. Wise

November 15, 2010

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In the late 1950s, when Teddy Kollek, the future mayor of Jerusalem, first suggested founding a national encyclopedic museum little more than a decade after Israel won its independence, many thought the idea pure folly.

Davidson Center

Kimmel Eshkolot embeds modernity in Jerusalem's layers of history at the Davidson Center, creating a three-dimensional journey through time.

Ruth Jacobson

July 19, 2009

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Passing through the Dung Gate on the south end of Jerusalem’s Old City walls, visitors walk down a Herodian street built 2,000 years ago and get a breathtaking view of an archaeological park overlooking the Temple Mount, the site of the Second Temple (destroyed in 70 A.D.) where the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosques now stand.