When Concrete Became a Design Medium
In the 1950s, Le Corbusier did something that looked like provocation: he left the concrete exposed. No coating, no plaster, no cover. He called it béton brut (raw concrete). The building makes no apology for what it is made of. From that came an entire movement. Brutalism built decades of architecture on one principle: concrete […]
Israel Is Building the Future of Construction. And It Isn’t Waiting for Anyone.
Dubai set a target: by 2030, 25% of all construction in the city will be 3D-printed. Saudi Arabia is pouring hundreds of billions into NEOM and entire neighborhoods built with methods that didn’t exist a decade ago. The Middle East is moving fast. So is Israel. Quietly, and all at once. In the past year, […]
When Tech Enters Construction: The New Worker the Industry Needs
Construction doesn’t have a problem with the number of workers. It has a problem defining what the new worker should be. Israel experienced this sharply. Overnight, the industry lost tens of thousands of workers and many job sites shut down. The government’s response was to issue 61,000 new work permits from ten countries. Construction input […]
Peripheral Housing Development: Why the Economics Finally Work
Land is available in Israel’s periphery. Everyone knows this. But anyone who has tried to develop there reaches the same conclusion: cheaper land doesn’t solve the problem. Because the problem was never the land. The problem is the cost of construction itself. A developer evaluating a housing project in a peripheral region always arrives at […]