The developer behind Tel Aviv's three-tower Azrieli Center, which contains some of Israel's tallest buildings, is currently building the country's largest office tower in an adjacent plot. The plans for Azrieli Sarona call for over 100,000 square meters of premium office space and a 10,000-square-meter boutique mall spread across three stories.

The building is climbing 53 stories and 238 meters above a seven-story underground parking garage with spots for 1,600 vehicles. Designed by Moshe Tzur Architects and Town Planners, the rectangular concrete core has been wrapped by two vertical blocks that accommodate a series of offset floor plates. Twisting around two different axes, the profile of the glass tower shifts towards the sea as it ascends, while the base of the building lies parallel to the existing street grid of the neighborhood.

On Menachem Begin Street, one of the city’s main thoroughfares, a small piazza and two mall entrances will escort visitors to the project's commercial component. When completed in 2017, the sleek fa?ade of the tower will provide a glassy backdrop to a pedestrian arcade lined with stores and coffee shops.

The other side of the building will host a covered sitting area and open spaces facing the Sarona neighborhood, a former German Templar colony. The slick addition to the cityscape soars above this preserved community of historical buildings, capturing the essence of Tel Aviv's changing urban collage.

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