Bennett Tucker, at The Blogs

Jun 24, 2024, 11:08 AM

“Starchitects” rebranding Jerusalem for the global future

New Bezalel's Jack, Jospeh and Morton Mandel Campus (Dor Kedmi/Bezalel Academy of Arts)

The ongoing construction of the Jerusalem Gateway project, Central Business District (CBD), and numerous high-rise apartments scattered across Jerusalem’s cityscape give clear evidence to the municipality’s effort to rebrand the Holy City as a competitive, world-class business, cultural, and...

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Bennett Tucker is an architectural historian and freelance writer with degrees from the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a former Visiting Research Fellow at the Hebrew University.