PROJECT DETAILS

Ram Karmi: Negev Center, 1956?–1960

  • Beersheba, Israel, Show on map
  • #COM #Precast #Public #Middle East
  • The center connects an interior, bazaar-like arcade with office spaces on the second floor and apartments on the third. Only a part was actually realized, which explains the abrupt closure on the east side. No real link to the city was ever forged. The wings on the side help keep the temperature inside around 6°C below the ambient temperature outside.

  • Many provisional repairs and uncoordinated conversions.

    This building was included in the red list, published in our exhibition catalog SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey (September 2017). After a status review on October 23, 2024, it was reclassified in the online database from red (endangered) to gray (least concerned / unknown).