Tall & Urban News

Ron Arad Associates has revealed a twisted tower that is narrow at the base but widens at the top, built as the first phase of the ToHA office complex in Tel Aviv.

British-Israeli designer Ron Arad designed the offices to take advantage of a constricted site by expanding and rotating the 28-story tower as it rises.

The building is set to complete later in 2019, with a second 63-story tower planned for the next phase of the Totseret Ha-Aretz (ToHA) project due to be built by 2024.

The first building has a stepped façade as the floors widen towards the middle of the tower before reducing slightly near the roof. Horizontal louvers and the overhang from the rotated floor plates create sunshades for levels below.

Seven lower, narrower levels in the building contain the building’s mechanical floors. This leaves the roof level free for several restaurants, two terraces, and a perimeter walkway.

A façade of cross-mounted panels forming a pattern of X shapes clads these levels. The woven pattern makes the façade permeable to allow for ventilation of the plant facilities.

The building’s entrance is marked by a 30-meter-tall cable-supported glass wall that leans out from the building.

A seven-story-high lobby has views all the way up to the roof, via an atrium void that runs through the building, allowing daylight to penetrate the offices from another inside.

Sky is visible through this 100-meter-high vertical space, and trees have been planted in the center of the foyer. Access to the underground parking lot is also through this space.

No two floors of the office building are the same. Floor sizes range between 1,850 and 2,780 square meters, and can be sub-divided between as many as seven tenants, or left entirely open-plan.

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