Episode of the day: "The White Elephant of Tel Aviv"

Listen to "The White Elephant of Tel Aviv"

Podcast: 99% Invisible (Episode 206)

Perspectival section drawing of the original building design
(image: 99% Invisible)

"Israeli buses regularly make international headlines, be it for suicide bombings, fights over gender segregation, or clashes concerning Shabbat schedules. One particular ill-fated megastructure, however, has been at the nexus of various lesser-publicized conflicts: a building in Tel Aviv designed to be the largest bus station in the world."

More information:

Article about Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station in Forward

Article in The Times of Israel

Youths practice their downrocks in Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station.
(image: Yifa Yaakov/The Times of Israel)