"TOWER OF BABEL" SPIRAL SKYSCRAPER BEING BUILT IN TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
Towering above the city’s other high-rise buildings at some 350 meters tall and costing NIS 2.5 billion ($670 million).
“We looked at Jewish tradition, and we saw the Jewish people as the ‘People of the Book.’ We considered the curving shape of the megillah and the Torah,” she said, in addition to receiving inspiration from the curving lines of Tel Aviv’s strong Bauhaus tradition and the twist of a snail’s shell.
Sauce: https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Azrielis-Spiral-Tower-tallest-in-Israel-to-be-built-in-Tel-Aviv-574773
Located on the former site of the Yediot Ahronot building, to the north of the existing three Azrieli towers, the spiral tower will have 91-floors and will be Israel's tallest building when completed.
The project has been designed by US architects Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates ( KPF ), which has designed five of the world's ten tallest skyscrapers, in collaboration with Israel's Moshe Tzur Architects & Town Planners Ltd.
The total cost of the project is estimated at ₪2.5 billion (over $650 million).
Sauce: https://www.israel21c.org/israels-tallest-tower-to-be-added-to-tel-aviv-landmark/
*Side Note - KPF is the same Architecture Firm that designed the newly opened Hudson Yards in New York City, built at a cost of $20 Billion Dollars. Owned by Developer Stephen Ross.
Stephen Ross serves on the Board for the Cornell Tech Campus,[36] a $2B redevelopment of Roosevelt Island (NYC) including the Joan & Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, a partnership between Cornell University and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology that when completed will house several thousand post-graduate students, hundreds of faculty, and a high-tech business incubator.