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Tel Aviv’s half-abandoned Central Bus Station is home to a bat cave and six underground theaters

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September 24, 2013

Today I learned that the little-known bottom half of “>run tours through their company, CTLV. (Architecture students Elad Horn and Talia Davidi “>the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem and Terminal 3 at Ben Gurion airport. His signature mid-20th-century style of architecture has been labeled “Brutalism,” and is described by Wikipedia as “very linear, fortresslike and blockish, often with a predominance of concrete construction.” Which explains so, so much.

9. The New Central Bus Station was designed to replace the equally terrible Old Central Bus Station a few blocks north, which today is a wide concrete yard with a one dinky psycho-ward-looking structure and sparse graffiti. The stench of urine is so strong that even the Tel Aviv street cats seem to avoid it. However, Mishal said that a local art college is planning to de-blight the historic old plot by incorporating an extension of the school into what's left of the station. This will hopefully gentrify the area a little bit. “People always think that if you bring the artists in, they'll do wonders,” he said.

“>its Friday lineup. Highly recommended; you've got to see this monster to believe it.]

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