Tel Aviv Central Bus Station 1:12:2022 HD 1080p

Tel Aviv Central Bus Station, December 1, 2022 With it’s scheduled demolition in 2025, this is a documentation of an ambitious civic project, that ultimately ended in abandonment and failure—a conversation between urban liminal space and its contextual usage, particularly through community engagement and micro-communities, that remain. This is meant to probe our relationship with postmodern architecture, with its complexity through form The “New” Tel Aviv Central Bus Station is a maze that’s easy to get lost in. Currently, between its eight floors, three are completely deserted, four and a half are in use, and of those, only three are actually used as bus terminals. There’s an abandoned movie theater and a gigantic nuclear fallout shelter. Not to mention a free health clinic, a kindergarten, an Asian food market, multiple art galleries, independent theater companies, two synagogues, and even a church – the mosque shut down a few years ago due to lack of demand In the construction and design of the project, Ram Karmi, the young architect “…, kept revising the original design, and the project ballooned in size, scope, and budget.” Today, the bus station stands as the largest on the world