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Article: NY architect goes home for major Tel Aviv project. (New York architect Eli Attia returns to Tel Aviv, Israel for building project)
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- Real Estate Weekly
- Article date:
- October 14, 1992
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Until now, New York architect Eli Attia has never designed a project that would bear his name in his native country of Israel.
"I thought it was unfair to compete with local architects for the little work that was there," said Attia,the former right-hand man of Philip Johnson whose credits in the Big Apple include 101 Park Avenue and The Republican National Bank building on Fifth Avenue.
But the local boy is going home with a bang. Attia is the designated architect for The Shalom Center, a 2.7 million-square-foot, mixed-use complex to rise on prime undeveloped land in Tel Aviv's central business district. With a price tag of $500 million, this will be ...