The Appendix: A Geddessian Hyperscraper
Agata Wozniczka

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The Appendix:  A Geddessian Hyperscraper

Agata Wozniczka

06.11.2025 

Curator: Arch. Sabrina Cegla

Opening: Thursday, 6 November 2025, 19:30

In the eleventh exhibition at the Liebling Haus Project Room, celebrating 100 years of the Geddes plan, Arch. Agata Woznizka presents an installation that envisions what Sir Patrick Geddes, Tel Aviv's legendary city planner (1925), would think of the White City's modern development and how he would address it.

The Appendix: The Geddessian Hyperscraper is an architectural speculation on how to preserve the White City with all its unique spatial characteristics, urban scale and vibrant local biotope. By extending local air rights from only 150 buildings with the highest conservation status to all 4,000 building volumes of the White City, the project envisions a 12,000-floor hyperscraper. This imaginary structure seeks to eliminate profit-driven modernist building remodels that distort the White City's strongest urban characteristics with their social, environmental and spatial values.

Serving as a sentinel of the city's historical layer, from the Geddes urban plan to modernist architecture, this new design perpetuates the legacy of forward-thinking urban planning by adding a new, complementary overlay. The hyperscraper translates “Geddesian principles” and modern values vertically, demonstrating how the hierarchy and gradual intensification of public life can be articulated in a form typical of modern Tel Aviv developments: a high-rise. Overgrown and upgraded, it reintegrates diverse greenery formats along a building’s perimeter, onto the facade, and into its interior, exploring how contemporary vertical gardens and public spaces can transform a building’s narrative. Moreover, the hyperscraper project updates the concept of the neighborhood unit, introducing vertical zoning and gradual privacy mediation through the space of the new structure.

The proposal is illustrated with standard architectural apparatus, including drawings, collages and physical models, making it tempting, yet not entirely feasible.

* Scottish town planner Sir Patrick Geddes was invited by Mayor Meir Dizengoff to design a Master plan for a city of tel aviv of 100,000 inhabitants spreading across the newly-acquired lands in the north of Tel Aviv. Geddes’s urban Master Plan presents(1925) a spiritual and communal vision of a city and includes extensive treatment of gardens and landscapes

“The Appendix: The Geddessian Hyperscraper” is the 11th  project in the Liebling Haus Project Room. The space encourages creatives of all disciplines to take an active role in a critical investigation of the question, "What is the White City?" as part of alternative, collaborative and ongoing research that approaches the White City as a platform for contemporary discourse on conservation, urbanism, identity and culture in the city. The Project Room is the open end of the permanent exhibition in the Liebling Haus, telling the tale of the White City as a point of departure for a story in the making. It is an opportunity to invite the creative community to address current challenges the city is facing on a local and global scale and present different perspectives and alternative narratives.