Haaretz, April 2009: Baywatch by Amir Zohar

Haaretz, April 2008:  Baywatch by Amir Zohar:

We got mentioned as something going on in the area. Well so then:

Just down the street, architects Merav Eitan and Gaston Zahr have founded O*GE Interactive Gallery for architecture and design, which is housed in an old two-story building leased from Hoefler. The gallery invites local residents, companies, schools, artists and designers to exhibit works on themes chosen by the gallery. The theme for the first year is environment and the green economy, for which the whole building was painted a glowing green which brightened up the faded area surrounding it.

“We rented the place as a ruin, and the transaction included our part in the renovation according to our design,” says Zahr, who is from Berlin and lives in the town of Kiryat Tivon, near Haifa. “We are architects who believe that design changes the world, slowly but surely.”

And the audience?

Zahr: “Haifa is a pretty ‘dry’ city, and it’s a shame, because it has tremendous potential.”

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