Kinneret Zmora Dvir

The journey begins with a glance from the street, walking through the main plaza, into the inner garden, through the lobby and on to the inner spaces. The new campus for the well-established book publishers combines all the company's activities under one roof: a logistic warehouse, office building, cafeteria and gym. In the lobby thousands of books are displayed on an impressive 14 meters tall display library.

"Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir" is one of Israel's oldest book publishing houses. It's days stretch back to Hayim Nahman Bialik who founded "Dvir" publishing house. The new campus of the publishers is located in Modiin's Industrial Park near the town of Shoham, and combines and office building and a logistics warehouse that houses 3,000,000 books. The campus atmosphere was created by "folding" the building into three different wings that wrap an inner yard.

Staff, writers, and editors collaborate across various facilities, all focused on the core of their mission—the books. The colorful designs of thousands of book covers are reflected in the glass tiles that decorate the building's facade. These bright tiles are balanced by the building's solid white structure. In the center, an inner garden sits between the buildings, offering beautiful views from every corner

In the entrance lobby, an impressive, 14 meters tall vertical display library that is built on the partition wall that divides the office building and the warehouse greets the visitors. The display library is visible from afar at every hour, around the clock, and at night it created a wall of light between the building walls. Hanging bridges connect the offices wings, and visitors can see different views of the impressive space from different heights and angles.

Photographer Uzi Porat