Is Tel Aviv’s Crazy Mess of a Bus Station an Architectural Failure? (Ft.

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- How did Tel Aviv end up with the largest bus station in the world? Proposed as a solution to Tel Aviv’s old central bus station, its shell sat abandoned for almost 20 years and became the city’s “white elephant”. Eventually construction of this eight-floor maze was finished and it opened to the public in 1993 with hopes of the massive labyrinth becoming an urban center containing everything from an Asian food market to a nuclear fallout shelter. Unfortunately, these dreams never became reality.

This video is a collaboration with Betty, from the YouTube channel @ARTiculations; you can check out her video here:    • A Brief History of Tel Aviv's White C...  

Special thanks to Tiv Nguyen for her behind the scenes tour of the station.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:30 Bizarre makeup of the "new" Tel Aviv bus station
01:15 The old central bus station
01:33 Aryeh Pilz and the dream for a new bus station
01:52 Ram Karmi and the maze-like design
02:46 Architectural style and megastructure
03:33 Aggressive marketing of commercial space
04:18 Abandonment of the unfinished station
04:43 Opening ceremony
05:04 Massive failures
06:47 Positive outcomes

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Image and footage credits:
- Azrieli Architectural Archive, Ram Karmi Collection
- Gavi Lazan
- GPO/Moshe Milner
- Israel Film Service/Prime Minister's Office/IDF Spokesperson
- JNF/Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
- Karmi Architects/David Rubinger
- Kdekiara/Freepik
- Koda Productions/Ran Shneck
- Maariv
- Michael Jacobson
- Pilz Family
- Tel Aviv Municipality Archives
- The New Tel Aviv Bus Terminal Co. LTD.
- William J. Clinton Presidential Library
- Yedioth Ahronoth
- YouTube/DFGDF DFFDGSFD
- YouTube/Guy Shachar
- ‏Mystorin Theatre Group

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