Champion Motors Tower

Champion Motors Tower is a 40-floor skyscraper located on ‘Sheshet Hayamim’ street in the Tel Aviv District city of Bnei Brak, Israel. The tower is 160 meters high (525 ft) and when it opened in 2013 it was the fifth tallest building in Israel. The tower is a part of the Bnei Brak Business Center. It is called hugging buildings, due to the visual appearance of hugging.

Champion Motors Tower
General information
StatusCompleted
TypeOffice
LocationBnei Brak, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Coordinates32.0983°N 34.8280°E / 32.0983; 34.8280
Completed2013
Height
Roof160 m (525 ft)
Technical details
Floor count40

Characteristics and history

The site on which the tower was built was formerly a car lot owned by the ‘Champion Motors’ company, an Israeli importer for automobile manufacturers such as Audi, Volkswagen, Seat and Skoda. In 2009, the company's activity was transferred to other sites and a new service center was established in Petah Tikva. At first there was a plan to build a 16-floor tower for ‘Champion Motors’, but later in 2011, almost a year after the construction started, the design was changed to a 40-floor tower.

The project's floor space includes about 50,000 square meters built on an 8,000 square meter field. Underground there are five floors of parking, and at street level there are car showrooms for Audi, Volkswagen, Seat and Skoda. The rest of the tower is used for offices.

In 2011, during construction, the insurance company Migdal purchased a one-third interest in the tower for 70 million shekels and became a partner in the funding of the construction.[1]

The building received minor damage and was evacuated in the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake.[2]

See also
  • "Emporis building ID champion-tower-bnei-brak-israel". Emporis. Archived from the original on August 27, 2017.
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References
  1. Raz Smolsky, Migdal purchased a third of the ownership of the tower for 70 million shekels, The Marker, 7 March 2011
  2. "מגדל משרדים ברמת גן פונה ברעש: "שמשה התנפצה ונפלו רסיסים, הייתה פאניקה"" (in Hebrew). Ynet. 6 February 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
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