Last Wednesday, Israel’s Wolf Foundation announced that British architect David Chipperfield is being recognized for overseeing the reconstruction of Berlin’s Neues Museum in a building that had been abandoned since World War II. His new building incorporated bricks, stairs and bullet holes from the original museum, which…

Issue 76 of Israeli architecture magazine Architecture of Israel Quarterly is out now, and within it are the finalist works of the Project of the Year Competition 2008/09. Taking place for the third consecutive year, the competition has become the most important and influential in…

Haifa, Israel (June 2, 2008)—The Technion, the oldest university in Israel, awarded an honorary doctorate to architect Daniel Libeskind, designer of the winning masterplan for the World Trade Center in New York. Mr. Libeskind accepted this prestigious honor and delivered a lecture ‘Breaking Ground’ to over 700 architecture students, faculty…