YET Architecture
LYN Tower
Office — Tel Aviv, 2025
LYN Tower Office
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Credits
Dudi Michaeli, Amit Traube, Avichai Mendelson
About the Project
Hidden beneath suspended ceilings, office cubicles, plasterboard partitions, and decades of commercial renovations, the original brutalist structure of LYN Tower was gradually uncovered and transformed into a contemporary workspace.
The project occupies one complete office floor inside LYN Tower, a modernist building originally designed by Richard Seifert. Rather than treating the floor as a neutral office shell, the project began with revealing the building itself.
Existing concrete columns, ceiling slabs, beams, and walls were stripped back and left exposed, allowing the raw structure to become the primary architectural language of the space. The intervention works through layering rather than replacement — preserving traces of the tower's history while inserting new materials and spatial systems with precision.
Design Concept
Brutalism Rewired
The LYN Tower is a well-known brutalist landmark in central Tel Aviv. This project proposes a careful yet radical interior transformation of one of its office floors — honoring the building's raw concrete legacy while introducing a light, layered language of industrial materials, polycarbonate filtering, and spatial rhythm.
Systemic Composition
Responding to the octagonal geometry of the tower plan, the project introduces a modular grid of office spaces punctuated by shared social pockets.
The layout resists the corporate cliché of vast open plans — instead offering a series of open cells, each with a different quality of light, enclosure, and programmatic flexibility.
Tactile Minimalism
A restrained palette of terrazzo, stainless steel, polycarbonate, and concrete blocks brings texture to minimalism, creating contrast and depth without visual noise.
Office as Landscape
Instead of a uniform open plan, the layout introduces a system of spatial pockets — allowing zones to be shared or isolated, responding to shifting needs of focus and collaboration.
The interior design of LYN Tower's office floors reflects a shift in the contemporary workplace — from static uniformity to adaptive atmospheres. Informed by the pandemic-era demand for flexibility and comfort, the space embraces raw materials and natural insertions. Planters, polycarbonate screens, and textured walls act as spatial filters, while the building's original skeleton is kept visible and integrated into the aesthetic. This is not merely a renovation — it is a recalibration of how work environments are composed.
Restroom
The restroom areas express the project's material palette most directly. Inside the cabins, raw concrete blocks are finished with stainless steel panels, continuing the logic of contrast. A planter pierces the dividing wall, visually connecting the toilets to the kitchen space. Although these rooms are physically separated, visual and atmospheric continuity is preserved — maintaining a sense of flow and unity across the project.
