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1951–55 The Israel Bank of
Agriculture, Tel Aviv

Corridor, 1955 The Israel Bank of Agriculture – a governmental
1955 ,‫מסדרון‬ corporation providing credit for various agricultural
ventures – was established in 1951. Shulamit and
363 Michael Nadler were invited to plan its offices on a 1,500
m² plot situated at the new center of public buildings
developing at the southern part of Ibn Gabirol Street in
Tel Aviv. The building was positioned on the edge of the
triangular plot between Carlebach and HaHashmonaim
streets, thus solving the plot’s problematic shape and
creating an urban block façade.

Comprising four stories and a basement
level, the building is divided into two office wings
each following the street its set on and encompassing
a backyard that opens on to the street with a wide
passageway detracted from the Carlebach Street unit.
The corner linking the building’s two wings, at the crown
of the triangle, is singled out by a distinctive truncated
façade, which holds the entrance lobby and sits a few
wide steps above the street level. It is in fact the design
of this unit that lends the building its stately status, as it
breaks the sharp angle of the street corner with a right
angle instead of the curved lines commonly used in Tel
Aviv’s corner buildings since the 1930s.

Similarly to the façade of Keren Cinema in
Beer Sheva, here too the façade was designed with a
glass screen divided by pillars and poles of exposed
concrete. The division sets a regular module of order