The Tower That Stayed a Drawing
Tel Aviv, Israel · Unbuilt, 2020
Sixty metres of housing that ended as fourteen sheets of paper.
The project died on economics, not on design. It is kept here because the section still argues its case better than the pro forma did.
Why it stopped
Two floors of shared space made the numbers fail. Removing them would have made the building pointless.
main sequence — 4:3
main sequence — sketch
one long image, then one drawing. never two drawings in a row.
the drawing survived. the spreadsheet did not.
Plan · diagram
Typical floor and shared-level section.
Process · gallery
Reflection
Unbuilt work is not failed work. It is a position held on paper until conditions change.