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with three internal courtyards
admitting light and air into
the rooms. The building’s
facades were made of
exposed concrete with a
grooved corduroy finish,
breaking the desert sunrays.

In parallel to the Beer
Sheva City Hall, the firm was
also engaged in planning
their first multi-level office
building: the Egged Office
Building (Israel Transport
Cooperative Society
Ltd.) in Tel Aviv (1954-63).
Constructed from exposed
concrete on the ground level
and aggregate on the higher
levels, it joined a wave of
Brutalist office buildings
erected in Tel Aviv in the
1960s and 70s (Beit El-Al,
1963; Shalom Mayer Tower,
1965; Beit Koor, 1970;

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