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Front façade, facing west, 1983 central library at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
1983 ,חזית ראשית למערב where the smooth planks were not painted but covered
in a white mosaic). The corduroy pattern continues into
the building and appears on the staircase, along with
bare concrete in a rough handmade ‟chiseled” finish.
The building’s austere character corresponds with its
neighbor, the Wolfson Building for Medical Engineering,
designed by the celebrated American architect Louis
Kahn.
189 Neiman Library of Exact Sciences and Engineering, Tel Aviv University