A raw crown sits above the blue glass of ToHa 2, with scaffold rails and crane lines still cutting into the Tel Aviv sky. The tower has already crossed the point where construction feels temporary. Its height now has public weight. At the same time, the top refuses to behave like a finished roofline. Steel, platforms, lift shafts, and unfinished edges keep the building in the open, before the ribbon, before the lobby language, before the clean version arrives.
Exposure: 1/500 sec | ISO: 160 | Aperture: f/11 | Focal Length: 63 mm | © amir2000.nl
Below the glass, a promise has already been printed for the street. Opening 12/2026 turns the unfinished facade into a countdown, even while the crown is still busy with the work of becoming complete. Public numbers tell the same story with less drama. ToHa Tower 2 is part of the ToHa development by Amot and Gav-Yam. CTBUH lists it at 298.2 meters and 76 floors, under construction, with expected completion in 2026. Amot describes Phase B as a 75-floor building with 160,000 sqm of office space and approximate occupancy in Q1 2027. Structurally, the tower is arriving. As a lived-in building, it is still waiting for its first ordinary morning.
Exposure: 1/2500 sec | ISO: 125 | Aperture: f/3.2 | Focal Length: 70 mm | © amir2000.nl
Around it, Tel Aviv has not fully made room yet. The neighboring towers and lower blocks still press against its base, and the open sky beside it makes the scale feel slightly unresolved. Glass gives the facade its finished discipline, with repeated horizontal bands and dark window strips already forming the office grid. Cranes answer that discipline with interruption. They keep reminding the skyline that this is not a monument yet, but a job site moving upward floor by floor.
Exposure: 1/3200 sec | ISO: 160 | Aperture: f/4.0 | Focal Length: 100 mm | © amir2000.nl
Tel Aviv complicates the future at street level. A stone wall, red roof tiles, shutters, and ivy sit in front of the same tower, not as decoration but as resistance to a clean timeline. The city does not replace one age neatly with another. It stacks them until the contrast becomes part of the architecture. ToHa 2 rises behind that smaller surface with corporate glass and exposed steel, but the older wall still gives the scene friction, a rough foreground against a tower trying to become smooth.
Exposure: 1/3200 sec | ISO: 160 | Aperture: f/4.0 | Focal Length: 100 mm | © amir2000.nl
Above the trees, the last visible work stays at the crown. The shaft is already calm, repetitive, and almost sealed, but the top remains a working edge. That is the stage worth photographing: not the announcement render, not the polished landmark, but the short interval when a skyscraper has enough height to claim the skyline and enough exposed steel to admit how it got there.
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Amir
Photographer, Builder, Dreamer
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