The Opera Tower – Retsif Herbert Samuel at Allenby Street, Tel Aviv, Israel

Completed in 1993, one of Tel Aviv’s most famous buildings is the 23-story Opera Tower. The Tower is situated at the corner of Allenby, Herbert Samuel and HaYarkon Streets. The building houses residential apartments, a shopping mall, a cinema, a fitness centre, a restaurant and a private swimming pool for the tower’s residents at the base of the building. The Opera Tower is built on the same place that the old Tel Aviv Opera House stood on and the exterior shape of the base building is identical to the one of the old Opera House.