Moshe Aviv Tower

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Moshe Aviv Tower מגדל משה אביב
City Gate
Location	Ramat Gan, Israel
Coordinates	32°05′N, 34°49′E
Status	Completed
Groundbreaking	1998
Opening	2003
Use	Business, Residential
Roof	244.1m
Top floor	244.1m
Floor count	74
Cost	US $130 million
Companies
Architect	AMAV Architects

Moshe Aviv Tower (Hebrew: מגדל משה אביב, commonly known as the City Gate), is a skyscraper located in the demarcated area of the bursa (diamond stock exchange) on Jabotinsky Road in northern Ramat Gan, Israel. 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. The building is named after Moshe Aviv, the construction company's owner, who died in a horse accident in October 2001 before completion.

1 Construction
2 The future
3 Gallery
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Construction

The design for City Gate was inspired by the famous Westendstraße 1 in Frankfurt. 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 (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 Europe and 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.

[edit] 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 Trump Plaza Tower, to be constructed by American property tycoon Donald Trump across Jabotinski Road, on the current site of the Elite Factory.