SITE ANALYSIS SUMMARY

 

Missed urban potential

  • The garden blocks the streets from the beaches
  • Breaks off commercial and entertainment sequences
  • Small number of visitors - definitely not a metropolitan park
  • The only park in a large urban district has a unique coastal park character
  • The Beaches - accessibility and parking issues - boundary issues
Enclosed garden - No visibility - Unwelcoming
  • Visual disconnection of the garden and Hayarkon Street
  • No clear and inviting entrances to the garden, other than from Nordau Boulevard
  • Insufficient accessibility between the garden and the beaches
  • Low visibility of the sea from the garden - restricted to the Cliff area
Segmentation and Division
  • Hilton hotel built at the centre of a public open space
  • Hilton's access routes and parking facilities tear off and dominate the garden
  • The Independence Garden and Spiegel Garden - effectively separate gardens
  • Too many "dead" areas - circulation narrows to cliff area

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a wallled beach for religious people unique Kurkar cliffs the Muslem cemetery Hilton hotel Hilton service areas and parking lots reserved for intended Hyatt hotel original entrance to the garden unique seashore vegetation dense wood of ficus trees and bushes the green Spiegel garden a poor passage between the walled marina and Atarim Sq. the Tel-Aviv marina dense vegetation hides Spiegel garden from Hayarkon St. Atarim Sq. - a run-down hotels, cinemas and shopping Ben-Gurion Blvd. Arlozorov St. Hayarkon St. - prestigious for its location, hotels and embassies Jabotinsky St. runs across Tel-Aviv to its commercaial district Nordau Blvd. - the northest in the boulevards chain the cliff promenade lowers near Hilton's Hilton's "underground" parking lot's facade towards Hayarkon St. Hilton's access roads and service areas dense vegetation blocks the garden from Hayarkon St. the Mediterranean the Mediterranean