Kimmel Eshkolot Architects

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Kimmel-Eshkolot Architects is an Israeli architecture firm, founded in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1986, by Etan Kimmel and Michal Kimmel-Eshkolot. In their first years of practice, they were involved in the preservation and rehabilitation of Neve Tzedek, the historical neighborhood of Tel Aviv. Throughout the years they won several national competitions for the design of high-profile public projects in Israel, such as the new expansion of the government compound ("Kiryat Hamemshala") in Jerusalem, [1] the Davidson Museum [2] in the Archaeological Park near the Western_Wall and the Memorial Center for Israeli military casualties in Mount Herzl. [3]
In 2011 they won the Rechter Prize for Architecture, considered to be the most prestigious award for architecture in Israel. [4] They received the award for the design of a rehabilitation center for IDF disabled veterans, located in Be'er Sheva. This project was also selected for project of the year in the international competition of the magazine Israeli Architecture.

Neve Tzedek Quarter of Tel Aviv.

Neve Tzedek is a neighborhood located in southwestern Tel Aviv, Israel. It was the first Jewish neighborhood to be built outside the old city of the ancient port of Jaffa. Originally a Mizrahi Jewish and Yemenite Jewish neighbourhood, for years, the neighborhood prospered as Tel Aviv, the first modern Hebrew city, grew up around it. Years of neglect and disrepair followed, but since the early 1980s, Neve Tzedek has become one of Tel Aviv's latest fashionable and expensive districts, with a village-like atmosphere. Literally, Neve Tzedek means Abode of Justice, but it is also one of the names for God.

Mount Herzl mountain

Mount Herzl, also Har ha-Zikaron, is the site of Israel's national cemetery and other memorial and educational facilities, found on the west side of Jerusalem beside the Jerusalem Forest.

The Rechter Prize is an Israeli architecture prize awarded bi-annually and intended to "encourage landmark projects of Israeli architecture". It was established in 1962 and name in honour of Ze'ev Rechter.

Selected projects

Project
The Diller Center- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Bet- Halochem, Beer Sheva
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Bet-Halochem, Beer Sheva
The Steinhardt Museum of Nature, Tel-Aviv University
The Steinhardt Museum of Nature, Tel-Aviv University The Steinhardt Museum of Nature - Tel-Aviv University.jpeg
The Steinhardt Museum of Nature, Tel-Aviv University
Davidson Center- Jerusalem
National Memorial, Herzl Mount, Jerusalem
National Memorial, Herzl Mount, Jerusalem National Memorial, Herzl Mount, Jerusalem.jpeg
National Memorial, Herzl Mount, Jerusalem

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