Azrieli Center

This guide to Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv opens in 1939, with a seventeen-year-old named David Azrieli fleeing east through Russia and Central Asia to escape the soldiers hunting people like him. You'll hear how that refugee became a Canadian developer who returned to Tel Aviv decades later, chose a site the city had been using to park its garbage trucks, and hired architect Eli Attia to design three towers sharing one mall. The guide follows the bitter falling-out between the two men partway through construction. Best heard from street level, looking up at all three towers at once.