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Moshe Aviv Tower , is a skyscraper
Skyscraper

A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building. There is no official definition nor height above which a building may clearly be classified as a skyscraper....
 located in the demarcated area of the bursa
Diamond Exchange District

The Diamond Exchange District is a district of the Israeli List of cities in Israel of Ramat Gan. Bordering the Ayalon Highway, the road dividing Ramat Gan and Tel Aviv, the district is home to Diamond industry in Israel as well as being a major commercial center....
 (diamond stock exchange) on Jabotinsky Road in northern Ramat Gan
Ramat Gan

Ramat Gan is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, which borders Tel Aviv to its west. It houses Israel's Ramat Gan Stadium, Bar-Ilan University, an advanced medical center , and The National Park ....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. It is the tallest building in Israel, surpassing the Azrieli Center Circular Tower when it was built. The office and residential building is also the eighth tallest building in the Middle East
Middle East

File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East....
. The building is named after Moshe Aviv, the construction company's owner, who died in a horse accident in October 2001 before completion.

Construction
The design for City Gate was inspired by the famous Westendstraße 1
Westendstraße 1

Westendstra?e 1 is a 682ft skyscraper in Frankfurt, Germany. The 51 floor building has a 95 metric ton steel crown, which is heated during the winter to avoid icing....
 in Frankfurt
Frankfurt

is the largest city in the German States of Germany of Hesse and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000....
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Moshe Aviv Tower , is a skyscraper
Skyscraper

A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building. There is no official definition nor height above which a building may clearly be classified as a skyscraper....
 located in the demarcated area of the bursa
Diamond Exchange District

The Diamond Exchange District is a district of the Israeli List of cities in Israel of Ramat Gan. Bordering the Ayalon Highway, the road dividing Ramat Gan and Tel Aviv, the district is home to Diamond industry in Israel as well as being a major commercial center....
 (diamond stock exchange) on Jabotinsky Road in northern Ramat Gan
Ramat Gan

Ramat Gan is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, which borders Tel Aviv to its west. It houses Israel's Ramat Gan Stadium, Bar-Ilan University, an advanced medical center , and The National Park ....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. It is the tallest building in Israel, surpassing the Azrieli Center Circular Tower when it was built. The office and residential building is also the eighth tallest building in the Middle East
Middle East

File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East....
. The building is named after Moshe Aviv, the construction company's owner, who died in a horse accident in October 2001 before completion.

Construction


The design for City Gate was inspired by the famous Westendstraße 1
Westendstraße 1

Westendstra?e 1 is a 682ft skyscraper in Frankfurt, Germany. The 51 floor building has a 95 metric ton steel crown, which is heated during the winter to avoid icing....
 in Frankfurt
Frankfurt

is the largest city in the German States of Germany of Hesse and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000....
. Construction on the tower began in 1998 and was completed in 2003 when the tower became occupied. The construction period was extremely short, achieving a sequence of five stories per month with only one shift of 40 workers. The rate of concrete placement per month was 3,000 m³ (105,930 ft³) and on a typical floor there are 42 windows. Total cost of construction was US$130 million. The tower has a height of 244 m
1 E2 m

To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 100 metre and 1 kilometre.1 E+1 m...
 (801 ft), with 69 floors above ground, five floors underground, and other common areas totaling 180 000 m² of space. Most of the tower (63 000 m²) is used for offices, while the top 12 floors are for residential use only. At completion time, the City Gate tower was the tallest building in the Middle East.

The building appeared in a TV advertisement for the Israel Lottery before it was completed, in December 2002. The tower also has its own exclusive gym and synagogue, and boasts two swimming pools. To this date it is the most expensive single building in Israel.

The future

On Monday, September 27, 2004, as part of the annual global City in Pink lighting campaign for breast cancer, the building was lit completely in bright pink light.

There is now an approved plan for a similar tower of the same height, called the Elite Tower, across Jabotinski Road, on the current site of the Elite Factory.

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See also

  • List of skyscrapers in Israel


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