The project in Ibn Gvirol. Imaging: Danny Lazar Architects
The Tel Aviv District Planning and Construction Committee, headed by Eran Nitzan, has decided to submit a plan for the renewal of Ibn Gvirol Street, which includes an additional 2,500 housing units.
The plan covers an area of about 198 dunams, includes both sides of Ibn Gvirol Street. The purpose of the plan is to renew the street by strengthening the construction and mixing its uses and adapting it to the executed design of the Green Line, while preserving the street values and unique construction, while maintaining the characteristics of the existing texture in the declaration, and as a complement to the 3-4 districts plan.
The plan defines the areas on the street with a mixed designation “residential, commercial and employment”, requires an active commercial facade towards the street, above which is an employment and commercial floor and also allows utilization of the underground in determining commercial and employment uses on these floors.
The construction volumes proposed on the street are in accordance with the division of the declaration area of the White City: the area outside the area of the declaration area and within the area of the declaration area. Outside the declaration area the plan allows for demolition and reconstruction up to a height of 8 storeys + partial roof floor. In the announcement area, the plan allows for two routes for renewal: demolition and reconstruction up to a height of 6 floors + a partial roof floor, and an extension route to an existing building that allows an additional floor addition + a partial roof floor up to a height of 5 floors + a partial roof floor.
The plan stipulates that at least 50% of the new construction will be residential in a variety of uses. This plan establishes a diverse apartment mix, in which 25% of the apartment units will be small apartments, measuring 50 square meters (main + service). The area, such as clinics, day care centers, kindergartens, activity workshops for classes and gyms, and allows hotel use.
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The plan is important in strengthening the building volumes on this main street and adapting it to the planning of the green line that runs along it and the policy of the District Committee for Development along the axis of a passenger-rich transportation system (Maanan) regarding mixed use and inclusive housing, including standard parking along the street and reduced parking. The existing sidewalk expropriation as part of the planning of the Green Line and even provides for an additional 3 m expropriation in favor of a sidewalk north of Nordau Boulevard, as part of the planning of the line station portal in this area.
Tel Aviv District Committee Chairman Eran Nitzan: “The Ibn Gvirol plan is a flagship plan of Tel Aviv that allows for the promotion of an updated urban renewal that is biased in favor of evacuation construction and is based on the green line of the light rail that is expected to pass under the street. The plan makes it possible to renovate the main street on the one hand but to preserve its special character on the other, while preferring pedestrians, cyclists and public transport.
Arch. Erez Ben Eliezer, Tel Aviv District Planner at the Planning Administration: “The plan encourages the renewal of Ibn Gvirol Street in a way that will continue to encourage the urban character of the street, while reducing priority for private vehicles, diverse and commercial housing mix. “Part of the plan is in the area of declaring the White City.”
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The street is one of the significant streets in the city center, crosses the city center districts and leads to the southern parts of the city and its northern neighborhoods. The street is used as a thoroughfare for the movement of pedestrians, cyclists, public transportation, and the light rail is planned and is currently being implemented along it – the green line and the purple line on Arlozorov Street. It is a mixed-use and lively street, with many attractions along its length and with distinct construction characteristics that include a colonnade that accompanies the commercial front along it.
In addition, the southern part of the street is included in the UNESCO Declaration, as a World Heritage Site in the city center, with international-style architectural values.
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